Friedrich Karl von Eggeling

Friedrich Karl von Eggeling (born August 20, 1924 in Gießmannsdorf ) is a German chief forestry officer , trainer , conservationist , managing director, organizer, specialist book author and writer .

Life

After Eggeling had passed his Abitur in 1942 in Löwenberg , he served during the Second World War from 1942 to 1945 in a tank force in the army of the Wehrmacht . In 1946 he began his forest studies in Freiburg im Breisgau and in 1948 moved to the university in Hannoversch Münden , where he also attended lectures with Arnold Freiherr von Vietinghoff-Riesch , who can be seen as one of his teachers. After graduating as a forestry graduate in 1950, he completed a traineeship in Sweden and in various forestry offices in Germany, which ended in 1953 with the Great State Forest Examination as an assessor for the forest service.

From 1953 to 1962 Friedrich Karl von Eggeling worked in the forest planning department of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture and then went to Friedrichsruh for a year as the deputy head of the forestry office of the Fürstlich Bismarckschen Forst Sachsenwald . From 1964 to 1971 he contributed his professional and organizational skills as managing director of the German Hunting Protection Association (DJV) in Bonn , for which he designed the German pavilion at the international hunting exhibition in Budapest in 1971 and which he was a titular member of the Conseil International de la Chasse et de la Conservation du Gibier (CIC) as Secretary General of the Committee on Migratory Birds . In 1971, under his influence, the German hunting law was reformulated and passed by the Bundestag . From 1972 he took over the management of the forestry office of the Count's Faber-Castell forest in Stein near Nuremberg .

In his longest activity, Eggeling was an academic employee in the management service of the Bavarian Forestry Office in Nuremberg from 1974/90. There he was responsible for the training of Bavarian professional hunters , special commissioner of the state parliament for the improvement of the living conditions of hoofed game , chairman of the committee "Wildlife and Environment", coordinator of the international exhibition "Wildlife and Environment" in 1986 in Nuremberg. He then became the managing director of Wildland GmbH in the Bavarian Hunting Association , where he was busy buying valuable biotopes and developing care concepts until 1992 .

In 1996 the forest part (around 400 ha) of his family property in Horscha ( Görlitz district ) was repurchased . From 1996 to 2009 he was the managing director of the forestry association "Niederschlesische Heide eV"

He also became known as the author of fictional hunting literature , several hundred short stories, essays , reports on experiences and articles on wildlife management, as a co-author and editor of specialist books and as a columnist for the magazines Jäger and Deutsche Jagd-Zeitung . Eggeling has been widowed since 2014 and has two sons.

Publications

Author of

• Strong boars , faithful dogs and lightning fast game birds . Paul Parey Verlag 1974, 1978.
• How Diana likes it. Paul Parey Verlag 1978, FC Mayer Verlag 1991.
• From hunting in Germany. Paul Parey Verlag 1988.
• The hunter as a farmer and forester. Paul Parey Verlag 1991.
• We hunt with pleasure. Neumann-Neudamm Verlag, 1997.
• Scotland - not just because of the deer . Neumann-Neudamm Verlag 1955.
• The hunt is new every day. Neumann-Neudamm Verlag 2006.
• Horscha - Hunting homecoming. Austrian Jagd-, Fischerei Verlag 2013.

Co-author of

• The Game Cookery Book. British Deer Society 1968.
• Grazing and covering in the area. FSVO 1979.
• with Heinrich Uhde : The hunter and the hunting business: types of hunting, game processing and dog management. Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1986 and more often, ISBN 3-490-27512-8 .
• Hunting and nature conservation. Landbuch Verlag 1991.
• The hunter and his game. Paul Parey Verlag, 1993, 1996.

Honors

• 1986 - Golden merit pin of the German Hunting Protection Association
• 1998 - Culture Prize of the German Hunting Protection Association

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Karl von Eggeling in the catalog of the German National Library