Friedrich Schott von Schottenstein

Friedrich Siegmund Johann Karl Albert Freiherr Schott von Schottenstein (born May 25, 1812 in Großsachsenheim , † May 20, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German forester and last forester in the Free City of Frankfurt . He created the basis for a planned management of the Frankfurt city forest .

Life

Schottenstein came from the Schott von Schottenstein family, who were raised to the baron status in 1691 . He was the eldest son of the Württemberg forest master Christian Ludwig Schott von Schottenstein and his wife Charlotte born. Olenschlager from Olenstein . After attending the Lyceum in Ludwigsburg , he gained practical experience in the Maulbronn forest district in 1829/30 , before studying forest science in Tübingen and Hohenheim from 1830 to 1833 . After working as a forestry assistant in Schorndorf from 1834 to 1836, he was a paid private lecturer for forestry and agriculture at the University of Tübingen, where he obtained a doctorate in political science in 1839 with a dissertation on the connection between agriculture and silviculture, with a special focus on Württemberg has been.

In March 1840, the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt appointed him to succeed Johannes Friedrich Vogel as forester. The contact to Frankfurt probably came about through his mother's relatives, who came from a respected patrician family.

During his long term in office, Schottenstein laid the foundations for the planned management of the Frankfurt city forest. His tasks also included the administration of the Hohen Mark im Taunus , in which the four Frankfurt villages Bonames , Dortelweil , Niedererlenbach and Niederursel were involved, as well as the inspection of the Fürstlich Isenburg-Birstein forest property, which bordered the Frankfurt city forest.

Schottenstein retired in 1887. His successor as forester was Carl Philipp Friedrich Hensel. He was a member of the patrician society Zum Frauenstein , was a senior member of the board of the Evangelical Congregation in Frankfurt for many years and was involved in the administration of several non-profit foundations in Frankfurt.

In 1840 he married Louise Freiin von Gemmingen-Guttenberg -Bonfeld . He died on May 20, 1895 of complications from a stroke . Schottenstein was a bearer of the Red Eagle Order 3rd class with ribbon and an honorary member of the Württemberg Forestry Association. The Schottensteinstrasse in Frankfurt-Niederrad and the Schottensteinschneise in the city forest are named after him. His grave is in the Frankfurt main cemetery .

Works

• Numerous specialist publications, including in the Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung and the Forstliche Blätter .

literature

• Fritz Koch: Schott von Schottenstein, Friedrich in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (revised online version), as well as in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 335 .
• Richard Hess:  Schott von Schottenstein, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 170-172.

Web links

• Schott von Schottenstein, Friedrich Siegmund Johann Karl Albert Freiherr. Hessian biography (as of May 20, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 6, 2016 .