Georg Meister (Forester)

Georg Meister (born June 30, 1929 in Königsbrück ) is a German forest scientist and non-fiction author and was head of the Bad Reichenhall High Mountain Forestry Office until his retirement in 1994 . Due to his involvement in its creation, he is considered the "founding father of the Berchtesgaden National Park ." Meister is co-founder and honorary member of the Bavarian Ecological Hunting Association .

Life

Meister was born in Königsbrück, Saxony, as the son of the district forester Ludwig Meister, spent a lot of time in the forest in his youth and went hunting since he was twelve . He studied forest science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and graduated in 1953 with a degree in forestry. He later obtained a doctorate in economics .

After completing his studies, he worked in the large private forest and after completing his traineeship in the civil service for several years in forest management . Master quickly earned a reputation as an expert in the field of hunting and was subsequently by the State Forestry Administration as a consultant on issues of hunting ungulates called to the ministry and should also play a part of a unit responsible for the non-national forest by the construction, the consulting foresters serve should.

From 1973 onwards, on behalf of the Bavarian Minister of Agriculture, Hans Eisenmann , Meister was in charge of the initial planning for the Berchtesgaden National Park and, among other things, laid down the regional backdrop. The investigation of the state of the forest there, as well as the introduction of a professional wildlife management system and the reduction of the hoofed game population, which he thought was urgently needed, met with resistance from hunting associations, local forest managers and the ministerial bureaucracy, which prompted the then Environment Minister and later Bavarian Prime Minister Max Streibl to adopt the originally planned to prevent the appointment of the master as the first head of the national park, which was officially established in 1978.

From 1978 to 1994 Meister was head of the Bad Reichenhall Forestry Office until he retired from the civil service as a forestry director.

He has been the author of non-fiction books on forests , nature conservation and hunting since the 1970s .

Meister lives today with his wife in the Landsberg am Lech district .

Honors

In 1994 Meister was awarded the Karl Gayer Medal of the Bund Naturschutz .

In 2005 he received the Bruno H. Schubert Prize for "his - sometimes against considerable resistance - successful efforts to preserve and restore the forests."

In 2011 he was awarded the Heinrich Cotta Medal by the Forestry Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden .

In 2019 he was awarded the Alpine Prize of the Alpine Protection Commission CIPRA Germany.

Publications

• The future of the forest - why we need it, how we save it. Westend, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86489-047-5 .
• The time of the forest. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-86150-630-0 .
• We do something ... for natural forests. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-440-06092-6 .
• A hope for the forest. F. Schneider, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-505-09874-4 .
• The location of the forest. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-570-2141-6 .
• Berchtesgaden National Park - encounter with the natural paradise at the Königsee. Kindler, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-463-00669-3 .

literature

• Claus-Peter Lieckfeld : The forest crime scene: from someone who set out to save the forest. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-938060-11-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Forstwirt: Meister, Georg | alpha forum | ARD-alpha | Television | BR.de. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. October 22, 2015, archived from the original on December 12, 2018 ; accessed on December 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ C.-P. Lieckfeld: crime scene forest. 2006, p. 28.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Germany's most beautiful national park turns 40 . In: National Park Administration Berchtesgaden (Ed.): Vertical Wilderness - The magazine of the Berchtesgaden National Park . No. January 32 , 2018.
4. ↑ The protective forest in view. In: Passauer Neue Presse. November 24, 2018, archived from the original on December 12, 2018 ; accessed on December 12, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Honorary Members. In: Ökologischer Jagdverband Bayern. Archived from the original on December 12, 2018 ; accessed on December 12, 2018 . 
6. ↑ C.-P. Lieckfeld: crime scene forest. 2006, p. 70.
7. ↑ C.-P. Lieckfeld: crime scene forest. 2006, p. 182.
8. ↑ C.-P. Lieckfeld: crime scene forest. 2006, p. 180.
9. ↑ Britta Fecke: Georg Meister: "The future of the forest -" Plea for more biodiversity. In: Deutschlandfunk. August 24, 2015, archived from the original on December 12, 2018 ; accessed on December 12, 2018 . 
10. ↑ C.-P. Lieckfeld: crime scene forest. 2006, p. 182.
11. ^ Prize winners 2005. In: Bruno H. Schubert Foundation. Archived from the original on December 12, 2018 ; accessed on December 12, 2018 . 
12. ↑ C.-P. Lieckfeld: crime scene forest. 2006, p. 228.
13. ↑ C.-P. Lieckfeld: crime scene forest. 2006, p. 261.
14. ↑ Sixth German Alpine Prize to Dr. Georg Meister - CIPRA (d). In: CIPRA. December 6, 2019, archived from the original on December 9, 2019 ; accessed on December 9, 2019 .