Georg Fahrbach

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Georg Fahrbach (1938)

Georg Fahrbach (born April 6, 1903 in Criesbach ; † February 12, 1976 in Stuttgart ) was a German administrative officer and banker and for decades had an important position in the German, later also European, hiking and nature conservation movement . From 1923 until his death he was a member of the Swabian Alb Association for more than five decades. At the time of National Socialism, Fahrbach, who joined the NSDAP in 1933 , was a prominent representative of nature conservation under National Socialism as a member of the Albverein's main board and from 1939 as chairman of the association. After being denazified as a “fellow traveler” in 1948, Fahrbach was again chairman of the Swabian Alb Association from 1949 to 1973. His activities and publications on hiking and nature conservation brought Fahrbach numerous honors and made him known beyond Württemberg as a hiker and nature conservationist .

Life

Origin and education

Georg Fahrbach was born on April 6, 1903 as the seventh and last child of the wine grower Christian Fahrbach and his wife Katharina. Most was born in Criesbach am Kocher in Hohenlohe . When he was four years old, his father died. Since Fahrbach's physical constitution was not considered robust enough to take up the vineyard profession, he was sent to the Ingelfingen Latin School after attending primary school in neighboring Ingelfingen . In 1918 he attended the secondary school in Heilbronn . He originally wanted to be a teacher or pastor and was a good student, but left the secondary school after only one year with the secondary school leaving certificate in order to take on a “somewhat more real profession” instead of the intended one in the uncertain time after the end of the First World War By chance, while studying agriculture , he started an administrative career in the higher service . In 1919 he entered the town hall of Niedernhall as an apprentice . There, in the town hall of Unterrot and in the administration of the Hall Oberamt in Schwäbisch Hall , he prepared for the actual training at the higher administrative school in Stuttgart , which he completed in 1924/1925 and passed the Württemberg state examination.

Further professional career

From June to December 1925 Fahrbach was Stadtschultheißen-Amtsverweser in Niedernhall. After a short service at the Waiblingen District Office , he was seconded to the Württembergische Hypothekenbank for six months in 1926 by the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior to process Reich loans for agriculture . The bank liked his skills and wanted to keep him with them. He turned down an offer to join the consular service of the Foreign Office and instead joined the bank, with which he remained until his retirement. At the end of 1931, at the age of 28, he was granted power of attorney , in 1934 he became a deputy member of the board of directors and in 1938 a full member . On April 27, 1939, he married his wife Elisabeth, with whom he subsequently had four children.

Regular hiking and first years in the Albverein

Since his youth in 1919, Fahrbach went hiking regularly for decades. Also the nature Fahrnbach was an early concern, and he sat down his life for him.

He got to know the Swabian Alb Association for the first time during his school days in Ingelfingen, when a teacher gave him the Albvereinsblatt. His administrative training fell during the time of the Bündische Jugend , to which he did not belong, but whose joy in hiking he shared. During his time in Unterrot in 1923, Fahrbach joined the Swabian Alb Association. In May 1923 he met the then club chairman Eugen Nägele and Wilhelm Mattes , the chairman of the Öhringer Albvereinsgau, with whom he became friends.

After completing his training, Fahrbach joined the Stuttgart local group of the Albverein. In spring 1928 he and other young members founded the Stuttgart Jung-Albverein, which he took over as head. After initial differences with the local group, the Jung-Albverein was soon accepted. Fahrbach was appointed to the main committee of the Albverein in 1931.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists came to power , Fahrbach joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . In autumn 1933 he became a member of the Albverein's main board. The the German National Association of Mountain and hiking clubs (later part of the National Socialist Reich League for Physical Education ) belonging Albverein was this association at this time as all the clubs into line . According to the statutes of 1933, which were changed at the request of the Reich Association, Jews and Marxists were not allowed to hold an office or be members of the association and were excluded from all associations. Fahrbach is said to have made it possible for a small, politically left-wing hiking club with former members from the SPD and KPD to come under the umbrella of the Albverein and to carry on its own life. He opposed plans by the National Socialist Motor Vehicle Corps (NSKK) to expand the Solitude race track in the press and through circulars.

Georg Fahrbach as "Leader of the Swabian Alb Association" and editor of Hans Schwenkel's paperback book on nature conservation (1941)

On 11/12 March 1939, the general assembly in Backnang elected Georg Fahrbach unanimously as the first chairman ("Führer") of the Swabian Alb Association on the proposal of the main committee. In addition, the draft of the new association statutes, which had been "worked out" by Fahrbach and "thoroughly discussed" by the main committee, was unanimously adopted at the general meeting. According to the new statutes, there should no longer be a managing chairman: “The main committee elects (...) the club leader (1st chairman); However, this must be confirmed by the general assembly, by the German hiking guide and the Reich sports guide . ” Hans Schwenkel , Ludwig Finckh and the NSDAP district leader of Vaihingen and Stuttgart, Wilhelm Fischer , were appointed to the main committee by Fahrbach . Schwenkel, like Finckh, a representative of the anti - Semitic , “völkisch” Nazi nature conservation ideology , had “particularly recommended” Fahrbach's election and now “happily made his“ participation ”in the main committee available to him. Since 1935, Schwenkel and Fahrbach were also among the activists ("Stoffler") in Finckh's "Heimat- und Naturschutzbewegung" to "save the Hohenstoffeln ". Fahrbach had a lifelong friendship with Finckh, an honorary member of the Albverein since 1938. At the “ Heroes ' Memorial Ceremony ” that followed the Annual General Meeting, the newly elected Albverein leader remembered the dead of World War I and the “dead of the [National Socialist] movement” and concluded with a memorial speech on the life of Adolf Hitler . In the new statutes entered in the register of associations in June 1939, the association's goal is now expressly stated: "The physical and intellectual education of its members in the spirit of the National Socialist worldview through the planned maintenance of hiking, nature and homeland protection, folk culture and all related endeavors ".

On April 20, 1939, club leader Fahrbach sent a telegram of congratulations on Hitler's 50th birthday on behalf of 42,000 Albverein members.

“For guidance!” - Georg Fahrbach, bank director, Stuttgart. Club leader of the Schwäb. Albverein, “z. Currently in the field ”/“ On the Atlantic coast at the end of July 1942 ”. Preface in: Wandering home , Stuttgart 1942.

In 1940 the Albverein founded under Fahrbach's chairmanship from the ranks of the Albverein a "Nature Conservation Service" (NDAV), which was responsible for the enforcement of the Reich Nature Conservation Act (RNG) of 1935 as a "patrol service" in the newly introduced "Albvereinsrock" with NDAV and party badges on the lapel through woods and Patrol hallways and report violations to state conservation authorities. In a chapter of the nature conservation paperback published by him, with a foreword and published together with Hans Schwenkel as the main author , he presented the "tasks and [the] structure of the nature conservation service of the Swabian Alb Association". In the preface it says:

“The Reich Nature Conservation Act, eagerly awaited by the Friends of Nature, was signed by the Fiihrer on June 26, 1935 and is or will be introduced throughout Greater Germany . The nature conservation authorities, which are available to advise the nature conservation authorities, are commissioned with its implementation. They need helpers! Nobody is more suitable for this than [!] The mountaineers and hikers who are members of the German mountain and hiking clubs. Because of their inner attitude towards home and nature, they are the best and strongest allies of nature conservation. [...]. The Swabian Alb Association, the largest of the German hiking associations, is ready to be most active. Lectures, essays, and admonitions alone do not do it. The nature and landscape (...) must be monitored. The walkers and the 'also hikers' must know that at any moment a man with a 'Conservation Service' badge and an ID in his pocket can come out and, if necessary, report them. As long as nature conservation is not yet a matter for the general public, incessant teaching, admonishing and warning must seize every national , and even fear must protect the forest. "

At the beginning of 1941 Fahrbach was drafted into the Wehrmacht and came to Karlsruhe for training in the Infantry Replacement Battalion 460 . As war , from 1944 Upper War Board , he was then in senior positions of the military administration in occupied France and Italy operate. Fahrbach, who was stationed in France at the time, described the book “Wandered Homeland” published by the Swabian Alb Association in 1942 as “the outward sign of our belief in the Führer and in the victory and right of German arms”. In South Tyrol , shortly before the end of the war, he became an American prisoner of war , from which he returned at the end of 1945.

denazification

The American military government suspended Fahrbach from his position as bank director on May 15, 1945 on the basis of a general order. His denazification process began on April 19, 1946 with the completion of the obligatory questionnaire including the self-written “political résumé”. In this, Fahrbach classified himself politically as national liberal. Until 1933 he did not belong to any party.

His entry into the NSDAP - Fahrbach had joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and later other NS organizations such as the German Labor Front (DAF, from 1933), National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV, from 1934) and Kraft durch Freude (KdF, from 1934) - he justified with critical statements about the NSDAP before 1933, because of which he feared personal disadvantages, so that he joined the party. His hope of being able to soften the “sharpness of the party program” by joining more moderate circles has not been fulfilled. He judged his entry into the party as an error, which he could no longer correct because leaving the party would have cost him his existence. He had never been a real partisan, always represented his own opinion and even offered “active resistance” through his opposition to the NSKK plans regarding the expansion of the race track at the Solitude, as well as through his opposition to the adoption of the model statute required in 1940 National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise (NSRL) for the Albverein, which led to the initiation of party court proceedings. Fahrbach classified himself in Category V of the exonerated. On June 17, 1946, he applied to the responsible Minister of Liberation, Gottlob Kamm, for an urgent procedure because the Württembergische Hypothekenbank had not had a board member capable of acting since May 1945. He attached 21 relief letters to the application, including from nature conservationists such as Wilhelm Münker and Josef Busey who were not polluted by the Nazi regime .

At the beginning of December 1946, the public plaintiff objected that Fahrbach had to prove that he did not owe his rapid professional advancement to the NSDAP. The Württembergische Hypothekenbank also gave the NSDAP grants of up to 30,000 Reichsmarks after 1941. By appointing NS functionaries to the Albverein committees, he had brought about the alignment of the Albverein. Fahrbach evidently owes his promotion to the war administrative council to his friend Karl Waldmann , who at the time was the "head of civil administration in France". Fahrbach replied through his lawyer on January 10, 1947. As has been confirmed several times, his career steps have no connection with party membership, and individual items such as party donations were not debated at the bank's balance sheet meetings in which he participated. The public plaintiff nevertheless applied on January 27, 1947 to classify Fahrbach in group II (incriminated). He was to be classified as an “activist” because he was the political leader of the NSDAP and because his bank provided substantial financial support for the NSDAP. After a change in the legal situation (instructions on a uniform interpretation of the Liberation Act ) and a further letter of reply from Fahrbach's lawyer, the public plaintiff changed his application for the classification of Fahrbach in category IV (followers) at the hearing on May 19, 1947. The Stuttgart Spruchkammer 11 ranked Fahrbach as a follower, imposed a two-year probation period, a monetary penalty of 10,000 Reichsmarks and three months of special work. As a justification, she stated that Fahrbach's entry into the party could not have happened under duress, that he had taken on functions in the party and that he had always shown himself to be a docile tool of National Socialism.

In response to Fahrbach's objection, on April 27, 1948, an appeal chamber confirmed the classification as a fellow traveler, but reduced the atonement to 2,000 Reichsmarks and no longer ordered probation or special work. In Fahrbach, it only saw a formal burden, not an individual burden (according to Article 12.1 of the Liberation Act) as given.

The historian Hans-Werner Frohn , who examined the denazification procedures of Fahrbach and other leading conservationists during the Nazi era, describes Fahrbach as an “opportunist” who, compared to other cases examined, “appears to be barely burdened, especially in the context of racism and anti-Semitism”. The "undeniable professional adaptation of Fahrbach" stands "in contradiction to his efforts [...] that his hobbyhorse, the› Swabian Alb Association ‹, hiking and nature conservation, would not be brought into line." Unlike other leading nature conservationists, he “helps Fahrbach not recognizable that he set hiking and nature conservation as an absolute and judged other political systems only under the criterion of usefulness for nature conservation issues. "

Board member after 1945

After the denazification was complete, Fahrbach returned to the mortgage bank and devoted himself to rebuilding the banking business. The Württembergische Hypothekenbank moved up into the top group of German mortgage banks . The bank was able to increase its balance sheet total from DM 21 million in 1949 to DM 1.4 billion in 1963 to around DM 3.2 billion at the end of 1972. In 1966 Fahrbach was appointed CEO of Württembergische Hypothekenbank and remained so until his retirement, when he moved to the institute's supervisory board in May 1974 . In addition to his board activities, Fahrbach was a member or chairman of a large number of advisory and supervisory boards as well as committees, and was vice-president of the Baden-Württemberg stock exchange for over 20 years .

Hiking and nature conservation after 1945

From 1949 to 1973 Fahrbach was the successor to Peter Goessler (chairman 1945-1949) again chairman of the association. After the Second World War, the Swabian Alb Association experienced a great boom, the number of members more than doubled. Many new hiking homes, shelters and observation towers were built; not a few of them were due to Fahrbach's initiative. From 1950 to 1975 Fahrbach was chairman of the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Clubs . The planning and implementation of the annual German Hiking Days, large events lasting several days, was largely in his hands. In 1951 he was a co-founder of the working group of German homeland, hiking and nature conservation associations. In 1952, at his suggestion, the German Hiking Youth was founded and in 1969 the European Hiking Association , of which he was president from its foundation until his death in 1976.

He was also active in the youth hostel movement. In youth hostels he no longer saw just accommodation, but "community facilities" where one could meet like-minded people. In 1958, Fahrbach explained: “It is more correct and cheaper to build youth hostels in the right place now than hospitals everywhere later on, regarding what he believes to be health-promoting and, with regard to juvenile delinquency , preventive character! And I add: It is better to give the growing youth the right meaning for life in clean hostels than to let them think about a failed life later in prisons and penitentiaries. ”He was involved in rebuilding the German Youth Hostel Association after the war significantly involved. He headed the state association of Swabia for several years, was a member of the main board of the DJH from 1949 to 1953 and its first chairman from 1953 to 1961.

Against the background of advancing technology and industrialization in Germany's economic miracle , Fahrbach emphasized the importance of nature conservation for people. As he put it in 1958:

“The lack of understanding of some of our contemporaries must not unsettle us in our conviction that life on this earth is no longer worth living if we only live between concrete and in soot, smoke and noise. Man does not live on bread alone; he needs the connection with nature for his inner and outer person, and he always needs hours of reflection and relaxation if his soul is not to die for him! More important than all advances in technology, and more important than the so much admired economic miracle, is the human soul, which first makes human beings and distinguishes them from all other living beings. But the soul dies and the human becomes a robot when he loses connection with nature. "

“Reichsautobahn on the steep slope of the Alb.” Relief panorama based on the painting by Michael Zeno Diemer (1938).

In contrast, Fahrbach and his Albverein have met with unbroken sympathy for motorway construction , one of the major technical projects of industrialized modernity, since the accelerated expansion of the Reichsautobahn network during the Nazi era. As late as 1970, Fahrbach said he could not "object too much to the highways as they have been built up to now"; on the contrary, he saw the interests of landscape protection as guaranteed by them. He only worried about all new construction projects because today's engineers, according to Fahrbach, no longer have the “necessary understanding” of nature.

Fahrbach was a co-founder and long-standing member of the presidency of the German Nature Conservation Ring, founded in 1950 . On his initiative, since the German Hiking Day in 1953, the German hiking associations have repeatedly called for regular school hikes, more biology, geography and geology lessons in schools, the further expansion of nature, landscape and homeland protection, the fight against all avoidable noise, the ban of motorsport events on all field, forest and hiking trails, the creation of further pedestrian paths away from the motorways and much more. Over the decades Fahrbach published hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines, mobilized the public in the event of impending violations of nature conservation and fought for his goals. He wrote forewords for dozens of books, sponsored them or acted as editor.

death

Georg Fahrbach died on February 12, 1976 in Stuttgart. He was buried on February 16 in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart . A funeral service, at which Albverein President Helmut Schönnamsgruber and Minister of Education and Culture Wilhelm Hahn gave funeral speeches, took place on February 24th in the Stuttgart Liederhalle .

Honors

Georg Fahrbach House in Tübingen

Fahrbach received numerous honors during his lifetime. In June 1959 the University of Tübingen made him an honorary senator and also awarded him an honorary doctorate in natural sciences in 1970. The University of Hohenheim also made him an honorary senator. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany twice: in 1959, Federal President Theodor Heuss awarded him the Great Cross of Merit, and on March 28, 1973 he received the Great Cross of Merit with a Star from Federal President Gustav Heinemann . The state of Baden-Württemberg honored him with its gold constitutional medal in 1963. On the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1963, he became an honorary citizen of his home town of Criesbach. In Criesbach, the main street, the Georg-Fahrbach-Schule and the Georg-Fahrbach-Eiche on the Criesbacher Sattel are named after him. On April 17, 2011, a permanent exhibition with numerous exhibits from Fahrbach's life was opened in the Criesbacher Kelter.

Established in 1973 and named in his honor, Dr. Georg Fahrbach Foundation promotes measures that can be summarized under the terms nature, home and hiking , and thus carries on the life's work of the eponym. It supports the idea of ​​hiking, among other things by creating European long-distance hiking trails , as well as understanding nature conservation, landscape management and environmental protection.

After his death, a hiking trail of the Swabian Alb Association was created in honor of Fahrbach . The Georg-Fahrbach-Weg , which was opened in 1977, follows his life path from his birthplace Criesbach in Hohenlohe to Stuttgart-Uhlbach . In addition, the Swabian Alb Association has been awarding the Georg Fahrbach Medal since 2006 . The first recipient of this award was Fahrbach's successor in office, Peter Stoll .

A student residence in Tübingen is called the Georg-Fahrbach-Haus .

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): Das neue Albvereins-Liederbuch , Verlag Schwäbischer Albverein, Stuttgart 1939.
  • Georg Fahrbach (ed., Preface and co-author) / Hans Schwenkel: Taschenbuch des Naturschutzes . E. Kaißer, Salach 1941, here: Georg Fahrbach: Tasks and development of the nature conservation service of the Swabian Alb Association ; 2nd, revised edition 1950.
  • (Ed. And preface): The Uhlberg. A font for hikers and friends of home . Schwäbischer Albverein publishing house, Stuttgart 1941.
  • (Preface): Wandered home , ed. by the Swabian Alb Association, edited by Georg Wagner . Schwäbischer Albverein publishing house, Stuttgart 1942.
  • The Teck . Schwäbischer Albverein publishing house, Stuttgart 1955.
  • Nature, home and hiking. Verses and sayings . Schwäbischer Albverein publishing house, Stuttgart 1956.
  • (Ed.): Nature Conservation - A Political Task? Fink Verlag, Stuttgart 1965.
  • (Ed.): Stuttgarter Wanderbuch . Fink Verlag, Stuttgart 1965.
  • (Ed.): Lake Constance circular hiking trail . Fink Verlag, Stuttgart 1971.
  • (Ed. And foreword): Ludwig Finckh on his 100th birthday on March 21, 1976 . Edited by the Ludwig Finckh Freundeskreis e. V. Gerhard Hess Verlag, Ulm 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frohn (see literature) , pp. 104–111
  2. ↑ Walter (see literature) , p. 22 ff.
  3. ↑ according to Dr. Georg Fahrbach, p. 38.
  4. ↑ Frohn (see literature) , p. 105
  5. ↑ Schönnamsgruber (see literature) , p. 96
  6. ↑ Frohn (see literature) , p. 107
  7. ↑ Frohn (see literature) , p. 106
  8. ^ On Wilhelm Fischer (1901–) see: Karl-Horst Marquart: Hans Junginger and Wilhelm Fischer. They terrorized the Vaihingen population , in: Hermann G. Abmayr (Hrsg.): Stuttgarter NS-Täter. From fellow travelers to mass murderers , Stuttgart, 2009, pp. 204–213.
  9. ↑ a b So the then editor of the sheets of the Swabian Alb Association , Dr. Josef Forder's report: Main committee meeting and general meeting in Backnang. Important decisions, changes in the management of the association (...) . In: Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein , Volume 51, 1939, No. 4, pp. 48–54 ( online ; TIFF, 985 kB).
  10. ↑ See the Hohenstoffeln under nature protection 1939. Reverberation and thanks of the German people. On behalf of the Hohenstoffeln fighters ed. by Gotthold Wurster , Heidenheim 1939, there pp. 15, 38 and 41.
  11. ^ As chairman of the Ludwig-Finckh-Freundeskreis e. V. , promised Fahrbach after Finckh's death in 1964 to “preserve” his “legacy”; see. Fahrbach's foreword in: Ludwig-Finckh-Freundeskreis e. V. (Ed.): Ludwig Finckh on his 100th birthday on March 21, 1976 . Ulm, Gerhard Hess Verlag 1976, ISBN 3-87336-112-X , p. 5.
  12. ↑ Schönnamsgruber (see literature) , p. 98
  13. ↑ Walter (see literature) , p. 23
  14. ↑ Our Führer Adolf Hitler on his 50th birthday . In: Blätter des Schwäbischer Albverein , Volume 51, No. 5 May 1939, p. 61 ( online ; TIFF, 64 kB)
  15. ^ Georg Fahrbach: Tasks and structure of the nature conservation service of the Swabian Alb Association , in: Hans Schwenkel: Taschenbuch des Naturschutzes , ed. and with a foreword by Georg Fahrbach, E. Kaißer, Salach 1941, pp. 46–51.
  16. ^ Georg Fahrbach: For guidance , in: Hans Schwenkel: Taschenbuch des Naturschutzes , ed. and with a foreword by Georg Fahrbach, E. Kaißer, Salach 1941, pp. 5-7.
  17. ↑ 90 years of the Schwäbischer Albverein, local group Karlsruhe - an association through the ages , on: Schwäbischer Albverein Karlsruhe ev (accessed on August 10, 2020)
  18. ↑ Schwäbischer Albverein (Ed.): Erwanderte Heimat , Stuttgart, Verlag Schwäbischer Albverein 1942, p. 3.
  19. ↑ Information on Fahrbach's denazification process according to Frohn (see literature) , pp. 105–111
  20. ↑ Frohn (see literature) , p. 124
  21. ↑ Frohn (see literature) , p. 112
  22. ↑ Frohn (see literature) , p. 111
  23. ↑ Frohn (see literature) , p. 111
  24. ↑ Dr. Georg Fahrbach. Speeches on the occasion of the celebration of the Württembergische Hypothekenbank in the Zeppelin Hotel in Stuttgart , Württembergische Hypothekenbank, Stuttgart 1973. p. 10.
  25. ↑ Walter (see literature) , p. 22 ff.
  26. ↑ Paul Bohl (Ed.): 125 years of hiking and more . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-221-5 , p. 171
  27. ↑ Quoted from: The history of the DJH regional association in Baden-Württemberg. 1950 to mid-1960s , from www.jugendherberge-bw.de , accessed on August 10, 2020.
  28. ↑ Georg Fahrbach: Oases of Peace , in: Kosmos 54, No. 10 (1958), pp. 410-413
  29. ↑ Shown in: Schwäbischer Albverein (Ed.): The Swabian Albverein and its hiking areas 1888–1938. Dedicated to its members on the occasion of the 50th anniversary , Alemannen-Verlag, Tübingen-Stuttgart 1938, p. 66.
  30. ↑ Ivo Engels: "High Time" and "thick line". Interpretation and preservation of the past in West German nature conservation after the Second World War , in: Joachim Radkau et al. (Ed.): Nature conservation and National Socialism , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003, pp. 363–404, here p. 396.
  31. ↑ a b In memory of Georg Fahrbach , Württembergische Hypothekenbank, Stuttgart 1976, p. 3.
  32. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 139, July 28, 1973.
  33. ^ Georg-Fahrbach-Weg ( memento from May 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in the tour database of the Swabian Alb Association, accessed on July 11, 2013
  34. ^ Sofia-Marie Sturm: Fascination Georg Fahrbach. In: Stimme.de. Heilbronner Voice , April 21, 2011, accessed on September 16, 2013 .
  35. ^ Opening of the Georg Fahrbach exhibition. (No longer available online.) In: criesbach.de. Criesbach , 2011, archived from the original on December 17, 2015 ; Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
  36. ↑ Erwin Abler: Our honorary president Peter Stoll celebrated his 75th birthday . In: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association . 112th volume, issue 4/2006 July / August, pp. 29–30 ( PDF )

literature

  • Dr. Georg Fahrbach. Speeches for the 70th birthday at the celebration of the Württembergische Hypothekenbank in the Zeppelin Hotel in Stuttgart . Württembergische Hypothekenbank, Stuttgart 1973.
  • In memory of Georg Fahrbach . Württembergische Hypothekenbank, Stuttgart 1976.
  • Helmut Schönnamsgruber : On the history of the Swabian Alb Association . In: Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein , Volume 94, 1988, No. 3/4, pp. 87–106 ( online ; PDF, 2.3 MB)
  • Eva Walter: For the 100th birthday. Georg Fahrbach - unforgettable . In: Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein , Volume 109, 2003, No. 2, p. 22 ff. ( Online ; PDF, 4.6 MB)
  • Hartmut Müller: A life for nature, hiking and home . In: Heilbronner Voice of April 5, 2003.
  • Hans-Werner Frohn (ed.): To deal with the Nazi past in nature conservation. Denazification proceedings by leading German conservationists and the case of Wolfgang Engelhardt (= man - nature - culture. Volume 01). oekom, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-96238-164-6 ( reading sample ; PDF)

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personal data
SURNAME Fahrbach, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hiking club president, conservationist, banker
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Criesbach , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1976
Place of death Stuttgart