Friedrich Türcke

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Friedrich Türcke (born January 27, 1915 in Bernburg (Saale) , † October 25, 1998 ) was a German forester and hunting scientist .

The longtime head of the Lower Saxony forestry office Saupark was known internationally as an expert in preventing game damage and as an expert on the European mouflon and the bison .

Life

Training and military service

Friedrich Türcke attended the Realreformgymnasium in Zerbst / Anhalt , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1933. As the son of a hunter who was familiar with nature, game and hunting from childhood , this turned out to be decisive for his career choice. He began his forestry training with a practical apprenticeship at the Lauenau am Deister forestry office . From 1934 to the final university examination in March 1939, he studied forest sciences at the forestry universities of Hannoversch Münden and Eberswalde as well as at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In Munich he also attended lectures in law , economics and music . During this time he also did his military service from 1935 to 1937 . Türcke had just started his preparatory service as a Anhalt and Prussian forest trainee when the Second World War began and he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the end of August 1939 . For his service he was awarded the German Cross in Gold on March 29, 1944 as captain of the II./Grenadier -Regiment 478 . As a captain and battalion commander he was then taken prisoner by the Soviets in Romania in August 1944 , from which he was released in September 1946.

Friedrich Türcke now resumed his legal traineeship, which was suddenly broken off by the war, and finished it in May 1948 with the Great Forest State Examination . This was followed by several years of assistantship with Fritz Nüßlein at the Institute for Hunting Studies of the Forestry Faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen in Hann. Münden . In Nüßlein he was in 1952 with the dissertation research on chemical agents to prevent damage caused by game in the forest for (forest Dr.) Doctor of Forest Sciences PhD . With his investigations, Türcke provided a crucial basis for technical game damage prevention, including for laboratory and enclosure tests. He also prepared his findings in the book Means Against Game Damage and Their Use (1953) intended for practical use .

As head of the Saupark Forestry Office

The Saupark Forestry Office is also the state hunting ground of Lower Saxony - here a hunt in Saupark Springe in 1961, in which the President of Pakistan, Mohammad Ayub Khan , also took part

From 1954 to 1955, Türcke worked as a district assistant in various forest offices before he was transferred to the Saupark forest office in Lower Saxony in December 1956 and was entrusted with its management a few months later. In the two decades that followed, up to his retirement in 1978, he made a significant contribution to the international reputation of Saupark Springe as a nature reserve and state hunting ground for the state of Lower Saxony . In addition, he was in charge of the Lower Saxony State Hunting Association's training center located in the Springe hunting lodge .

Internationally recognized hunting scientist

Friedrich Türcke made a name for himself as an expert on the European mouflon

With his publications and lectures he became internationally known as a hunting scientist and especially as a mouflon expert - above all with the first comprehensive hunting monograph on the European mouflon , which he and Samuel Schmincke published in 1965 under the title Das Mouflon. Natural History, Hege and Hunting (Herbert Tomiczek contributed to later new editions). This standard work, known far beyond the German-speaking area, appeared in its fourth edition in 2003.

There has been a bison conservation
breed in the bison enclosure in Springe since 1928
It is thanks to Friedrich Türcke's initiative that the Springe bison enclosure was preserved

Because Türcke saw his life's work in keeping endangered game species such as mouflon and bison . During his time as head of the forestry department, he also made a contribution to bison conservation breeding in the well-known Springe bison enclosure . The fact that the bison enclosure was preserved against all kinds of opposition is entirely thanks to his initiative.

His advice and cooperation were in demand in many bodies, not least in the International Council for the Conservation of Game and Hunting (CIC) .

In addition, Friedrich Türcke volunteered as a nature conservation officer for the city of Springe .

He received several awards for his work, including the 1st Class Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit in 1977 , with which his services to the State of Lower Saxony were honored.

Forest Director a. D. Dr. Friedrich Türcke died on October 25, 1998 at the age of 83 of complications from a stroke .

Awards

In Saupark Springe on Nagelskamp the "Forstdirektor-Friedrich-Türcke-Hütte" is named after him, and near the park is the "Forstdirektor-Dr.-Friedrich-Türcke-Platz" (also known as "Pfingstwiese").

Fonts

  • Investigations into chemical agents to prevent game damage in the forest , dissertation, Hann. Münden 1952.
  • Means against game damage and their application , FC Mayer, Munich and Hamburg 1953 (2nd edition as means against game damage , FC Mayer, Munich 1970).
  • Conservation and breeding of bison in Germany . In: German veterinary weekly . 87th year (1980), pp. 416-419.
  • together with Samuel Schmincke: Das Muffelwild. Natural history, Hege und Jagd , Parey, Hamburg and Berlin 1965 (later editions together with Herbert Tomiczek; 4th edition Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09652-1 ).

In addition, Türcke edited the eleventh expanded edition of Walter Frevert's Das Hagdliche Customs , published in 1981 . In addition, he worked on the second, revised edition (1985) of the standard work Die Wildsauen. Natural history, ecology, conservation and hunting by Lutz Heck and Günther Raschke. As early as 1957, he had contributed to the commentary on the Federal Hunting Act of November 29, 1952, on game damage.

literature

  • Joachim Menzel: Dr. Friedrich Türcke died , in: Forst und Holz . 53rd year, issue 24/1998, p. 749, ISSN  0002-5860 .
  • Herbert Tomiczek: On the death of Dr. Friedrich Türcke . In: Journal for Hunting Science . 45th year. No. 1/1999, p. 73, ISSN  0044-2887 .
  • Erhard Ueckermann : Forest director a. D. Dr. Friedrich Türcke reached the age of 75 . In: Journal for Hunting Science . 36th volume no. 1/1990, pp. 67-68, ISSN  0044-2887 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Joachim Menzel: Dr. Friedrich Türcke died , in: Forst und Holz . 53rd year, issue 24/1998, p. 749.
  2. a b c d e f g Herbert Tomiczek: On the death of Dr. Friedrich Türcke . In: Journal for Hunting Science . 45th year. No. 1/1999, p. 73.
  3. Entry on Friedrich Türcke at www.ww2awards.com (English).
  4. a b c Erhard Ueckermann: Forest director a. D. Dr. Friedrich Türcke reached the age of 75 . In: Journal for Hunting Science . 36th year No. 1/1990, p. 67
  5. 80 years of bison maintenance breeding ; Retrieved January 1, 2011.
  6. cf. also Türcke's publication Conservation and Breeding of Wisents in Germany . In: German veterinary weekly . 87th year (1980), pp. 416-419.
  7. Erhard Ueckermann: Forest Director a. D. Friedrich Türcke reached the age of 75 . In: Journal for Hunting Science . 36th volume no. 1/1990, pp. 67–68.
  8. ^ History of the NABU group Springe ; Retrieved January 1, 2011.
  9. cf. also the corresponding entries in the German National Library .