Fritz Hockenjos

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Hockenjos as a speaker at a protest meeting in St. Märgen against the construction of the Black Forest motorway in April 1967 (photographer Willy Pragher )

Fritz Hockenjos (born March 26, 1909 in Lahr ; † February 24, 1995 in St. Märgen ) was a German forestry director, author and honorary nature conservation officer for the Upper Black Forest district .

Life

Hockenjos attended elementary school from 1916 and then from 1919 to 1928 the humanistic grammar school in his hometown. He then studied forest sciences from 1934 at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich . After graduating, he held the position of second forest official at the Kandern Forestry Office from 1937 to 1939 . From 1948 until his retirement in 1974, Hockenjos was head of the St. Märgen Forestry Office , where he practiced near-natural silviculture and was therefore way ahead of his time.

War participant

Hockenjos was used as a soldier in France and the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1945 during World War II and was still a French prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1948. Among other things, he was captain of the reserve and deputy leader of the 2nd Battalion of Grenadier Regiment 380 ( 215th Infantry Division ). On the eastern front he was u. a. awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Conservationists

From 1953 to 1973, Hockenjos was the honorary district commissioner for nature conservation and landscape management in Neustadt in the Black Forest and in 1953 he was appointed chief conservation officer of the Black Forest Association as the successor to Hermann Schurhammer , an office that he held until 1970. In the same year he also took over the position of chairman of the working group Heimatschutz Südbaden and successfully fought with her against plans for a dam in the Wutach Gorge in the Black Forest. The working group carried out intensive public relations work with signature campaigns and was therefore a model for many later citizens' initiatives .

From 1970 Hockenjos was president of the Black Forest Association. When he resigned as President in 1979, he was made Honorary President.

Honors and memberships

Books

  • 1994: forest stories. From the corner of God in the Black Forest. 131 S. Schillinger Freiburg
  • 1989: with Willi Paul: hiking guide through the Wutach and Gauchach gorges. 148 S. Rombach Freiburg
  • 1985: Crossing Freiburg-Bodensee. 108 S. Schillinger Freiburg
  • 1985: St Märgener World. 99 S. Schillinger Freiburg
  • 1985: Words of Resistance to Forest Poisoning. Dreisam-Verlag Freiburg
  • 1982: Through the Black Forest. On the trail of the Hohenheim forest candidates in 1832. Forstl. Experimental u. Research institute Baden-Wuerttemberg Freiburg

source

  • Barbara Häcker: 50 years of nature conservation in Baden-Württemberg. 305 p. Ulmer Stuttgart. Portrait of Hockenjos on page 282.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Klimt: Kurschner's Almanac of German Literature 2000. S. 1304. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung : Leaving traces in the woods, March 26, 2009.
  3. ↑ Hermann Riedel: Stop! Swiss border! , Im Verlag des Südkurier, 1984, pp. 29 and 41 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ Richard Schmidt, University of Politics Munich (Hrsg.): Journal for Politics. Volume 45, C. Heymann, 1998, p. 44. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 394.
personal data
SURNAME Hockenjos, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest director and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1995
Place of death St. Märgen