Hanns glasses

August Johannes Max Gläser (born May 14, 1903 in Söllichau , † December 2, 1977 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German forest scientist.

Life

Glasses was a son of the royal auxiliary hunter Max Gläser and was born by Anna Glasses. John. A few years after 1903, the von Söllichau family moved to other places where their father worked. In 1921, glasses spent his childhood with his grandparents in Erfurt , graduating from the Himmelspforte high school . The forestry administration, he graduated in Benneckenstein and then studied at the Forestry School Hannover-Munden to 1925. The lawyer time to 1928 made glasses in the teaching Oberförsterei Biesenthal of Forest University Eberswalde from. Here he was interested in the performance parameters of the revolutionary two-man chainsaw. After the state examination, glasses stayed at the university as a research assistant . In 1932 he was awarded a doctorate for his work "Contributions to the form of the forest saw and the technique of sawing ". rer.silv is doing his doctorate. In the same year he was given the management of the Rhoden Forestry Office (near Kassel). In 1936, Gläser founded one of the world's first stationary forest worker training centers here.

In 1938 he was brought to the Reich Forestry Office as a trainee lawyer for the four-year plan (machine development, wood processing) in Berlin . In 1941, Gläser published his groundbreaking study on the " Reorganization of the Hauungsbetrieb " in the magazine " Der Deutsche Forstwirt ". From 1945–1946, glasses worked as head of the forestry and timber management office and as a forest inspector in the Wiesbaden region . In the last year he took on a teaching position for forestry work sciences at the forestry faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Hanover-Münden. In 1951, after completing his habilitation on the subject of " The back of the wood - overview of tools and working methods for backing logs and plywood in the forests ", in 1953 glasses glasses became professor . In 1955 he became director of the Institute for Forest Work and Forest Machinery at the University of Göttingen, which he founded. In 1954 he was appointed Vice President of the FAO / ECE "Joint Committee on forest working techniques and training of forest workers". On behalf of this organization, Gläser carried out a first FAO mission in Iran from 1956 to 1959 . From 1962 to 1964 he was then on behalf of the FAO professor at the University of La Plata in Argentina . As a result, he again carried out an assignment in Iran until 1968. He finally retired that year.

In addition to the publications mentioned, Gläser wrote a total of 180 articles in magazines, but also several independent publications.

Works

• The harvest of wood (1954, 3 editions)

literature

• Wilhelm Schüßler: Hanns glasses in: Biographies of significant Hessian forest people , Frankfurt am Main 1990, pp. 189–193.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Glasses, August Johannes (Hanns) Max , in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 31.
• Gerhard Stinglwagner / Ilse Haseder / Reinhold Erlbeck : Das Kosmos Wald- und Forstlexikon, Stuttgart 2016, p. 357.

Web links

• Glasses, Hanns in the Hessian biography