Hans-Heinrich Hatlapa

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Hans-Heinrich Max Hatlapa (born May 27, 1920 in Uetersen ; † March 4, 2009 at the Forsthof Eekholt in Großenaspe ) was a German entrepreneur and pioneer in nature conservation .

Life

Hatlapa was born as the eldest son of Max and Johanna Hatlapa, b. Strecker, born in the Holstein town of Uetersen . He grew up in Uetersen and passed the Abitur there in 1938 at the Ludwig-Meyn-Gymnasium . Hatlapa was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1938 and then into the Air Force. Already at the beginning of the war he was shot down in Norway via Narvik and was taken prisoner of war in Canada. While in captivity, he first began studying medicine and then business administration.

After the war Hatlapa worked as an authorized signatory in his parents’s Hatlapa Uetersen machine factory . In 1951 he took over the management of this ship equipment company and in 1956 finally became a co-owner. His negotiating skills are attributed to the fact that the Hatlapa machine works were not dismantled by the occupying powers after the war.

Over time, Hatlapa increasingly withdrew from the operational business of the machine factory. Together with his wife Theda, née Countess Finck von Finckenstein (* 1929), whom he married in 1954, he is now increasingly committed to the preservation of nature. The preservation of the Osterau river from destruction by straightening it from the 1950s was an important concern for him. To save the unspoilt Osterau, he founded a deer research enclosure in the Segeberger Forest on both sides of the river in May 1970 , from which the Eekholt Wildlife Park soon emerged . Hatlapa expanded the latter into an environmental education center . The passionate hunter also earned merits in the field of distance injections and medicinal immobilization in wild animals .

After a long illness, Hatlapa died on March 4th, 2009 in his house in the Eekholt Wildlife Park.

Works

  • 1974 (together with Heinrich III Prinz Reuss): Wild in Gehegen. Housing, nutrition, care, wild anesthesia . Hamburg
  • 1982 (together with Henning Wiesner ): The practice of wild animal immobilization . Hamburg
  • 1985 stories from Eekholt. Experienced cheerful and serious things with people and animals . Eekholt
  • 1986 Eekholter stories. Cheerful and serious things from everyday life in a wildlife park . Neumunster

Honors

literature

  • Anonymous: Hans-Heinrich Hatlapa Honorary Doctor of Education . Journal of Hunting Science. Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 138-139, ISSN  0044-2887
  • Anonymous: Farewell to wildlife park founder Hatlapa . Lübecker Nachrichten of March 6, 2009
  • Anonymous: 400 mourners said goodbye to Hans-Heinrich Hatlapa . Kiel News from March 15, 2009
  • Sebastian Kimstädt: "Hatlapa was a pioneer" . Uetersener Nachrichten of March 6, 2009
  • Ilse Rudat: He was way ahead of his time . Uetersener Nachrichten of March 21, 2009
  • Wolf-Gunthram Freiherr von Schenck: Dr. hc Hans-Heinrich Max Hatlapa, founder of the Eekholt Wildlife Park, died. Press release of the Eekholt Wildlife Park from March 5, 2009
  • Miro Walter: Hatlapa, Hans-Heinrich . In: The Uetersen Lexicon . Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 2012 ISBN 978-388312-421-6 , pp. 49-51

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eekholt lost his visionary . Holsteinischer Courier , March 6, 2009, accessed September 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hatlapa, Hans-Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hatlapa, Hans-Heinrich Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder of the Eekholt Wildlife Park, conservationist and pioneer of environmental education
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Uetersen
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2009
Place of death Forsthof Eekholt, Großenaspe