Georg Sperber (Forester)

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Georg-Sebastian Sperber (born February 8, 1933 in Nuremberg ) is a German forester and forest scientist . He was significantly involved in the establishment of the Bavarian Forest National Park and became known for his contributions to the debates on the forest-game conflict , forest dieback and global warming .

Life

Georg Sperber was born in Nuremberg in 1933. After graduating from high school in Fürth in 1952 , he began studying forest sciences in Munich , which he completed in 1959 with a diploma. During these years of study, he spent time abroad in forestry in Bosnia , Spain and Sweden . After graduating, Sperber completed a three-year legal traineeship in the Bavarian State Forest Administration and passed the state examination for higher forest service in 1962 . He received his doctorate in 1962 with the topic The Strobe in the Bavarian North Spessart at the State Economics Faculty of the University of Munich. In the Bavarian State Forest Administration, he initially worked at forest offices in Central Franconia. In 1964, Sperber joined the State Forestry School in Lohr as a teacher .

Georg Sperber lives with his wife in Ebrach.

Services

In 1967, Sperber returned to Central Franconia as a forester without a territory and was given the task of preparing the 1968 conference of the German Forestry Association in Nuremberg. His commemorative publication Die Reichswälder bei Nürnberg was an important, recognized study and won him the Lorenz Wappes Prize in 1968 . In 1969 he was appointed deputy head of the newly created Bavarian Forest National Park Office and was involved with the director, Hans Bibelriether, in the development of the first German national park. Sperber worked intensively with Horst Stern and was involved in his film Remarks about the Red Deer , which was broadcast on Christmas Eve 1971 , in which he also appears.

From 1972, Sperber headed the Ebrach Forestry Office until his retirement in 1998, most recently as forest director . Engaged in the working group for natural forest management , Sperber put their concepts into practice in his area of ​​responsibility. Under his leadership, the decline of the beech was stopped, the forest was opened up and maintenance residues were removed. Sperber's often combative commitment to reducing the roe deer population not only gave him the desired natural regeneration in the forest, but also a lot of criticism from the hunters . Sperber's commitment was honored in detail in the book Jagdwende - Vom Edelhobby zum Ökologische Handwerk (2000), dedicated to him, by the authors Wilhelm Bode and Elisabeth Emmert.

Sparrowhawk wanted to show that nature conservation and sustainably used commercial forests are not mutually exclusive. During his tenure in the Ebrach state forest, for example, he had around 400 forest ponds created, which, among other things, are suitable spawning waters for the rare string newt . The Ebrach Forestry Office developed under his leadership into a forest and nature conservation "place of pilgrimage". When the discussion about the so-called forest dieback arose in the early 1980s , Sparrowhawk was one of the first warners. In the 1990s , Sperber then concentrated on the topics of forest ethics and global warming . When the WWF launched the “Climate witnesses” project and initiated a discussion on this in 2005 in Brussels, Sperber represented Germany. As a “climate witness”, he presented the EU Environment Director Jos Delbeke with 1313 German supporters' postcards.

Memberships

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The strobe in the Bavarian North Spessart , dissertation, Munich 1962; Reprinted in the (with Hans Bibelriether) book Lärche und Strobe im Spessart , Hamburg and Berlin 1962
  • The imperial forests near Nuremberg. From the history of the oldest artificial forest, communications from the Bavarian State Forest Administration (issue 37), Munich 1968
  • with Hans Bibelriether: Enclosure in the Bavarian Forest National Park , Grafenau 1971
  • with Georg Meister and Christian Schütze: The location of the forest. An atlas of the Federal Republic. Data, analyzes, consequences , Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-570-02141-6
  • with Stephan Thierfelder: 2nd edition, Munich 2008, primeval forests of Germany. National parks, natural forest reserves and other protected areas , ISBN 978-3-8354-0399-4 )
  • with Thomas Stephan: Franconia's natural heritage. Beech forests in the Steigerwald , Bamberg 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-936897-62-3 )
  • 2005 (with Stephan Thierfelder) illustrated book Urwälder Deutschlands

As co-author:

  • Jagd-Lexikon , Munich 1984, ISBN 3-405-12947-8
  • Forest ecosystems in global climate change. Background and need for action , Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-87081-274-5
  • Ecological forest management. Basics - Aspects - Examples , Heidelberg 1994 (2nd edition 1996, ISBN 3-7880-9888-0 )
  • Forest management close to nature. Process protection or biological sustainability? , Holm 1997, ISBN 3-930720-31-0
  • The sand birch - the birches. Conference on the Tree of the Year 2000 . Reports from the Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry, No. 28. Freising 2000
  • Forest history forum. Results of the Forest History Working Group in Bavaria 2000-2002 , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-933506-22-0

literature

  • Forest Directorate Upper Franconia / Editing: Dr. Georg Sperber retired. In: Forest and Wood. 53rd year, issue 08/1998, ISSN  0932-9315 , pp. 245-246.
  • Volker Zahner (2013): Dr. Georg Sperber on his 80th birthday . In: Ornithological Indicator . Volume 52 / 1–2, pp. 92–94, online , archive link .
  • Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL) (Hrsg.): NaturschutzGeschichte (n) . Volume I, 2010, pp. 29-33, online , archive link .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview by Dieter Lehner with the forest scientist Georg Sperber , BR-alpha, October 19, 2005; Retrieved July 26, 2010
  2. ↑ Volker Zahner (2013): Dr. Georg Sperber on his 80th birthday . P. 93
  3. ↑ cf. for example werewolf in green. Germany's ecologists are calling for organic hunting: Excessive roe deer populations, they warn, endanger the forest . In: Der Spiegel 10/1974 ( version by Spiegel Online ); Retrieved July 26, 2010
  4. ^ Wilhelm Bode and Elisabeth Emmert: Jagdwende. From noble hobby to ecological craft. (3rd, complete edition) Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-406-45993-5
  5. ↑ Forest Directorate Upper Franconia / Editing: Dr. Georg Sperber retired. In: Forest and Wood. 53rd year, issue 08/1998, ISSN  0932-9315 , pp. 245-246
  6. ↑ WWF: On-site meeting in Brussels. WWF climate witnesses give face to climate change  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.socialtimes.de of November 17, 2005@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.socialtimes.de  
  7. ↑ a b honorary members. In: Ökologischer Jagdverband Bayern. Archived from the original on December 12, 2018 ; accessed on December 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Environmental prizes: "Tree Pope" and municipalities awarded ( Memento from November 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sparrowhawk, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sperber, Georg-Sebastian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forestry practitioner and forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg