Georg Friedrich Krause

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Georg Friedrich Krause (born April 2, 1768 in Prenzlau , † November 22, 1836 in Weimar ) was a Prussian state councilor and chief forest master as well as a forest science author.

He was born in Prenzlau 1794 Lieutenant of artillery , 1800 director of the forestry plan chamber and Oberforstrat in Berlin , in 1802 a lecturer at the local forestry school , 1809 State Councilor and chief forester ; In 1817 he retired to devote himself to his publications.

Harald Winkel described him as a "rationalist-liberal Prussian official" who borrowed most of his views from Adam Smith . Krause was in close contact with the circle of Prussian reformers . Some of his suggestions found their effect between 1801 and 1806 in some successful replacement of forest servituts in East Prussia .

He died on November 22, 1836 at the age of 68 in Weimar, where he had lived from 1833.

Fonts

  • Compendium of Lower Forest Sciences , Berlin 1806
  • Instructions for estimating and calculating the monetary value of forest land , Leipzig 1812
  • Compendium of Higher Forest Sciences , Leipzig 1824
  • Instructions for the treatment of the central forest , Leipzig 1829
  • Attempt of a system of national and state economy , Leipzig 1830
  • About the replacement of servitutes and meanness in the forests , Gotha 1833
  • On forest legislation in Germany , Gotha 1834

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Harald Winkel: The German National Economy in the 19th Century , Scientific Book Society: Darmstadt 1977, p. 90.
  2. ^ Marie-Elisabeth Vopelius: The old liberal economists and the reform era , G. Fischer: Stuttgart 1968, p. 140.