Fritz Nüßlein

Fritz Nüßlein (born June 1, 1899 in Regensburg ; † January 30, 1984 in Hann. Münden ) was a German hunting and forestry scientist .

The nestor of German hunting science has succeeded in combining the various branches of empirical hunting science into a forestry sub-science. He became widely known for his textbook Jagdkunde , which was first published in 1962 and has since been one of the standard works for hunting training.

Live and act

Fritz Nüßlein comes from an old Bavarian forest ranger family . He was born in Regensburg in 1899 as the son of the then forestry office assistant and later senior government and forestry councilor Heinrich Nüßlein. There he also spent his childhood and attended the old grammar school . In 1917, the year of the war, he passed the emergency maturity examination in order to be drafted into army service at the age of almost 18 in August 1917. From 1918 to 1922 he studied forest sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he was also a member of the Corps Arminia . After completing his studies, he completed a legal traineeship of more than three years in the Bavarian State Forestry Administration, which he passed in 1925 with the Great State Forestry Examination as the best of 39 students in his year.

He was immediately hired as a forest assessor at the government forestry office in Munich and was appointed forest master in 1926 after just four months as assessor . In the autumn of 1927, the head of the Bavarian State Forestry Administration, State Councilor Theodor Mantel, brought him to the ministerial forestry department as his personal advisor. In 1932 he was transferred to the Hohenaschau State Mountain Forestry Office, whose branch he headed from 1933 to 1936.

Another leap in his career came in 1936 when Nüßlein was appointed to the Reichsjagdamt headed by Oberstjägermeister Ulrich Scherping , Department IV of the Reichsforstamt , in Berlin. There he was responsible as a consultant for the construction and administration of the state hunting grounds - a responsible task, since in these areas primarily Reichsjägermeister Hermann Göring himself worked. Nüßlein managed the tasks, which often required enormous diplomatic sensitivity, so well that he was promoted to chief forestry officer until the end of the Second World War . Nevertheless, he had repeated difficulties with the NSDAP . Nüßlein issued a hunting instruction that was valid for all state forests of the German Reich and took over the general department for the state hunting grounds of Rominten , Elchwald , Letzlinger Heide , Lobau and Karwendel .

Nüßlein suffered a great deal of personal suffering during these years. His wife died in 1937 after a year of marriage. In 1943 and 1945 his apartments were completely destroyed in bombing raids and the battle for Berlin.

With the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 he fled the Red Army to the west and came to the future state of Lower Saxony . There he helped set up a new state forest administration. He also made sure that numerous foresters who fled or expelled from the former German eastern territories, as well as those returning from the war, got a job again. In doing so, however, he also relieved controversial personalities such as Walter Frevert by cleverly disguising his role and possible war criminal activities during the occupation in Bialowies , against his better judgment . Nüßlein initially worked at the Sarstedt State Forestry Office near Hanover , where he was responsible for “ Candidates and training” in Department A “General and Personnel” and was also an examiner at the Düsterntal forestry school .

In 1946 he received a teaching position for hunting at the forestry faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Hann. Münden, there was honorary professor there in 1950 , associate professor in 1953 and, associated with it, head of the institute for hunting science on the spot of chief forest master, and full professor for hunting in 1954. He also read an introduction to forest science . Already in 1953 to Hann. Münden, he was so impressed by his new academic field of activity, which was initially unfamiliar to him, that he turned down an offer as head forester at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry . Until his retirement in 1969, Nüßlein was dean of the forestry faculty four times . In this role, he also helped to prepare their move to Göttingen in 1970 and, despite all kinds of opposition, decisively pushed them through. He was convinced that only in this way could the requirements of a “ Universitas litterarum ” be implemented in a fruitful cooperation. Nüßlein was significantly involved in the planning and construction supervision of the new buildings and research facilities.

When the old Reich hunting law was transferred to the federal hunting law, Nüßlein founded the magazine for hunting science , which he published from 1954 to 1969. In addition, in 1954 he was one of the founders of the International Ring of Hunting Scientists , which was launched on the occasion of the international hunting exhibition in Düsseldorf . He was considered a particular expert on hunting conditions in southern Germany and the high mountains. However, Nüßlein achieved great fame far beyond academic circles through his textbook Jagdkunde , which first appeared in 1962 and immediately became a standard work within the training of young hunters. The "Nüßlein" appeared in eleven editions during his lifetime and shaped generations of German hunters. The author himself had given the following thoughts to the first edition in the foreword:

"May the guideline - kept as scientific as necessary, oriented as practically as possible - be a tool for young hunters for their hunting activities and give old hunters some inspiration for new considerations."

- Fritz Nüßlein

In addition, Nüßlein was active in many committees, including from 1958 to 1970 as Vice President of the German Forest Association , whose managing director under Lorenz Wappes he had been from 1928 to 1933, as a board member in the German Forestry Council , as an expert in the lottery committee and as long-standing managing director of the Forestry Research Association .

His high reputation was reflected in honorary memberships of many national and international societies. The German Hunting Protection Association (DJV) awarded him the culture prize, the German Forest Association made him an honorary member in 1970, and the Lower Saxony state government honored him in 1980 with the Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit .

After his second wife, who he married in 1939, preceded him in death in 1983, Oberlandforstmeister Professor Fritz Nüßlein, who had been left paralyzed after a stroke in 1982, died on January 30, 1984 at the age of 84 in Hann. Open to bronchitis . He found his final resting place in the Protestant cemetery in his hometown of Regensburg.

Fonts (selection)

• Wilhelm Bieger: The formula-based evaluation of European hunting trophies , 4th edition, revised by Fritz Nüßlein, Hamburg and Berlin 1956 (6th, again expanded edition, Hamburg and Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-490-01412-X ).
• Hunting lore. A textbook for an introduction to the Waidwerk , Munich, Basel and Vienna 1962 (from the 12th edition reworked by Walter Helemann / new edition 1988 under the title The practical handbook of hunting customer ; 16th edition / new edition revised by Wilfried Bützler, Munich 2006 , ISBN 3-8354-0020-7 ).
• The wildlife and hunting conditions in the Bavarian Forest National Park , Hann. Münden 1970.

literature

• Heinrich Rubner : Fritz Nüßlein . In: ders .: Hundreds of important foresters in Bavaria (1875 to 1970) . Messages from the State Forestry Administration of Bavaria. Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests, Munich 1994, pp. 275–276.
• Horst Kramer , Friedrich Türcke : In memoriam Fritz Nüßlein . In: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 39th year, issue 21/1994, pp. 543-544, ISSN  1430-2713 .
• Zoltán Rozsnyay, Frank Kropp: Fritz Nüßlein . In: dies .: Lower Saxony Forest Biography. A source volume. (From the forest. Messages from the Lower Saxony State Forest Administration, issue 51). Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (MELF), Wolfenbüttel 1998. pp. 347–349.
• Antal Festetics : Fritz Nüßlein died . In: General forest and hunting newspaper . 155th year, issue 7/8 1984, p. 200, ISSN  0002-5852 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Nüßlein in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heinrich Rubner: Fritz Nüßlein , in ders .: One hundred important Bavarian foresters (1875 to 1970) . Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests, Munich 1994, p. 275.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1981, 103 , 572.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Horst Kramer: In memoriam Fritz Nüßlein , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 39th year, issue 21/1994, p. 543.
4. ^ Andreas Gautschi : Walter Frevert. A Weidmann's change and ways . 2nd, supplemented edition. Edition Nimrod by Jana, Melsungen 2005, 176 pp., ISBN 3-7888-0981-7 , pp. 97-98.
5. ^ Zoltán Rozsnyay, Frank Kropp: Fritz Nüßlein , in this: Lower Saxony Forest Biography. Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (MELF), Wolfenbüttel 1998, p. 347.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Zoltán Rozsnyay, Frank Kropp: Fritz Nüßlein , in this: Lower Saxony Forest Biography. Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (MELF), Wolfenbüttel 1998, p. 348.
7. ^ ^{A b c} Friedrich Türcke: In memoriam Fritz Nüßlein , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 39th year, issue 21/1994, p. 544.
8. ↑ quoted from Fritz Nüßlein, Walter Helemann, Odward Geisel et al .: The practical manual of hunting knowledge . 13th, revised edition. BLV, Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-405-14194-X , p. 8.
9. ↑ Horst Kramer: In memoriam Fritz Nüßlein , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 39th year, issue 21/1994, p. 544.
10. ↑ Heinrich Rubner: Fritz Nüßlein , in ders .: One hundred important forest people in Bavaria (1875 to 1970) . Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests, Munich 1994, p. 276.