Gerhard Speidel

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Gerhard Speidel (born December 28, 1923 in Züllichau , died November 3, 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German forest scientist .

Life

Gerhard Speidel was born on December 28, 1923 in Züllichau , then located in the Brandenburg province of the Free State of Prussia , now a small Polish town called Sulechów . He began studying mathematics and physics in 1943 . From 1945 he studied forest sciences and received his diploma in 1948 . He then worked in the Lower Saxony forest administration and as a consultant at the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture . He received his doctorate in 1952, his doctoral supervisor was Hubert Hugo Hilf . In 1956 he qualified as a professor at Reinhard Schober at the University of Göttingen belonging forestry faculty in Hann. Münden with a work on performance control in forest management.

In 1957 he was appointed to the chair of forest policy and forest business management at the Georg-August University in Göttingen as the successor to Hans Lemmel . In 1965 he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg to the chair for forest management and forest management. At the end of the 1985 summer semester, he retired early for health reasons. On November 3rd, 1992 he died after a long illness.

From 1974 to 1978 he was President of the German Forestry Council . In 1987 he was awarded the Karl Abetz Prize . Speidel supervised over 60 doctorates and habilitations, including the doctoral theses of Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling and Gerhard Oesten .

Gerhard Speidel advocated a new conception of forest business management , which was based on neoclassical theory and based on the concepts of business production factors from Erich Gutenberg and the decision-making approach from Edmund Heinen .

Books

  • Forstliche Betriebswirtschaftslehre , Parey, Hamburg 1984 (first edition 1967), ISBN 3-4900-9016-0 .
  • Planning in the forest enterprise , Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-4900-8716-X .
  • Gerhard Oesten (Ed.): Gerhard Speidel. Essays on forest business management 1949 - 1985 . Volume 1 of the writings from the Institute for Forest Economics. Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-9803-6971-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c On the history of the Institute for Forest Economics , Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , p. 9. Retrieved on October 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Speidel: The computational basics of performance control and their practical implementation in forest management . Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .
  3. ↑ a b Gerhard Oesten (Ed.): Gerhard Speidel. Essays on forest business management 1949 - 1985 . Volume 1 of the writings from the Institute for Forest Economics. Freiburg 1994, pp. 1-4.
  4. ↑ About us . Website of the German Forestry Council . Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  5. ^ Karl Abetz Prize , website of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Speidel, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Züllichau
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1992
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau