Hannes Mayer (forest scientist)

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Hannes Mayer (born January 25, 1922 in Altötting / Upper Bavaria , † April 23, 2001 in Vienna ; also Johann Mayer ) was a German - Austrian forest scientist and university professor.

Life

Mayer studied forest science at the University of Munich from 1945 to 1949 and then worked in the Bavarian forest administration. In 1951 he received his doctorate in State Economics (Dr. oec. Publ.) At the State Economics Faculty of the University of Munich with the text The natural distribution of the larch in the Berchtesgaden Limestone Alps . In 1961 he became a private lecturer and curator there. In 1965 he was offered a professorship for silviculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna . From 1967 to 1990 he was head of the International Association of Forest Research Institutes - working groups for mountain forest management (1967–1971), ecosystems (1971 to 1980) and primeval forests (1980–1990). Mayer was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Memberships and honors

Fonts

  • The natural distribution of larch in the Berchtesgaden Limestone Alps. A contribution to the biology and silviculture of the larch at the edge of the Alps on a sociological basis, especially within the natural beech forest , dissertation, Munich 1950
  • The larch in the forest communities of the Berchtesgaden Limestone Alps , 1954
  • together with Alberto Hofmann: Fir forests on the southern slope of the central eastern Alps - structure and silvicultural significance of the most important forest communities in South Tyrol and in the Tridentiner / Venetian Alps . With a forest vegetation profile through the Central Eastern Alps , 1963
  • together with Alberto Hofmann: Forests rich in firs on the northern slope of the central eastern Alps - vegetation gradient in montane forest communities from the Chiemgau and Kitzbühel Alps to the northern Hohe Tauern - Zillertal Alps , 1963
  • Forest history of the Berchtesgadener Land ( Salzburg Limestone Alps ) , 1966
  • Forests of the Eastern Alps - location, structure and silvicultural significance of the most important forest communities in the Eastern Alps including foreland , 1974
  • Mountain forest management - protection forest maintenance. A silvicultural contribution to landscape ecology and environmental protection , 1976 (2nd edition 1992)
  • Silviculture on a sociological-ecological basis , 1977 (4th edition 1992)
  • The Johannser Kogel oak nature reserve in the Lainzer Tiergarten , Vienna Woods , 1979
  • 3rd Fir Symposium. Vienna 1980 , 1980.
  • Deforestation caused by game damage in Tyrol-Austria. Volume 1: Häselgehr-Lechtal , 1983
  • Forests of Europe , 1984
  • Deforestation caused by game damage in Tyrol-Austria. Volume 2: St. Jakob / St.Anton am Arlberg , 1984
  • together with Günzl-Schmidt: Appropriateness study for the cultivation of forest plants using cell and tissue cultures , 1985
  • Forest pollution damage in Austria , 1985
  • together with Hüseyin Aksoy: Forests of Turkey , Stuttgart and New York 1986, ISBN 3-437-30533-6
  • European forests. An overview and guide through the endangered natural forests , 1986
  • The forest, the dying forest and the German soul - the dying forest as a cultural trauma , 1986
  • Remnants of primeval forest, natural forest reserves and natural forests worthy of protection in Austria , 1987
  • together with Eberhard F. Brünig: Silvicultural terminology. Technical terms for forest production , 1987
  • Deforestation caused by game damage in Tyrol-Austria. Volume 3: Lähn / Reutte - Ausserfern , 1987
  • Natural forests in Austria , 1987
  • East Tyrolean mountain forest construction. Silvicultural conclusions from the flood disasters in 1965 and 1966 , 1988
  • Corsican forests . Walks through a forest paradise , 1988
  • together with Josef Ebenberger: Cypress - sloping slope forests in the Samaria National Park - Crete / Greece , 1989
  • together with Franz Fischer: Silviculture basics of a protection forest restoration concept for the Viennese spring protection forests in the Rax and Schneeberg areas (1989), 1989
  • together with Frank Klötzli: Ecological environmental impact assessment of the slopes in the forest in the Gastein ski circus , 1990
  • Unvarnished reminiscences of a uo (messy) professor, Johann von Nepomuk Mayer , Vienna 1992

literature

  • R. Kuoch: On the resignation of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Hannes Mayer - Vienna. In: Swiss journal for forestry. 142nd volume, issue 1, 1991, pp. 75/76.

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personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Hannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian forest scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Altötting , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2001
Place of death Vienna