Hans-Heinrich Vangerow

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Hans-Heinrich Vangerow (also Hans Heinrich Vangerow ; born April 4, 1924 in Tapiau , East Prussia , today Gwardeisk , Russia ; † December 28, 2019 in Donaustauf ) was a German forester and historian . Vangerow has become known far beyond Germany as the "father of the forest youth games ", whereby forest therapy for disabled children was particularly important to him. Vangerow was also the first head of the national park administration of the Bavarian Forest National Park .

Live and act

career path

Hans-Heinrich Vangerow was born on April 4, 1924 in Tapiau, East Prussia. However, the family moved to Bavaria in 1925 , so that he attended school in Erlangen from 1931 and in Munich from 1937 . In Munich he also passed his secondary school diploma in 1942 , as he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a soldier . In 1948 he returned from captivity and studied forest science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich until 1952 . This was followed by the forest traineeship in the Bavarian State Forest Administration, which he completed in 1955 with the Great State Forest Examination .

Then Vangerow worked as a forester in Geisenfeld until 1960 . From 1966 to 1972 he was the head of the forestry office in Allersberg near Nuremberg . On May 1, 1972, he moved to the Oberforstdirektion Regensburg as chief forestry director , where he was head of regional planning , land maintenance , nature conservation and public relations, and from 1973 to 1979 he was also head of the Bavarian Forest National Park administration . Vangerow was instrumental in putting the national park project into practice against all kinds of opposition and successfully campaigning for acceptance. In 1987 he was appointed Deputy Forest President. On May 1, 1989, Vangerow retired as Chief Forestry Director.

Father of the forest youth games

Well known far beyond the borders of the Federal Republic of Germany, however, made him known for the forest youth games he created , with which he began on May 9, 1970 as head of the forestry office in Allersberg. Vangerow developed the idea and the basic pedagogical concept for this from experiences with forest inspections by school classes in the 1960s and from a forest quiz that he held in the school hall at the beginning and then moved into the forest. He wanted to introduce children to nature - and especially the forest - in the sense of environmental education, not in an abstract-theoretical way, but with playful activities, and to arouse their interest in its community, history and use. Vangerow wrote in 1983: “It is precisely because these special school events are held in the forest that they try to capture and include the entire environment. It can therefore rightly be described as practice-related ecology lessons 'on site' in the service of environmental protection. "

Initially 37 groups of schoolchildren took part in the new forest youth games, but the demand for this offer increased rapidly. As early as 1971, the then Bavarian Forest Minister Hans Eisenmann took over the patronage of this series of events, which was held annually in spring on nine extended mornings centered in the Neuburg Forest near Passau , in Kleinprüfeningerholz near Regensburg and in the Bavarian Forest National Park. The orientation was in the hands of the Bavarian State Forestry Administration, the sponsorship with the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW), Landesverband Bayern e. V., whose representative for forest youth games and school contacts was Vangerow. Up to 1984 a total of 3,600 classes with more than 100,000 students were playing in Bavaria alone - including those with learning and mentally handicapped students, whom Vangerow had also looked after since 1977 and whose forest therapy he was particularly committed to. Under the umbrella of the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald, the idea of ​​the forest youth games soon spread nationwide and today they are an offer that is popular with primary schools in almost all federal states . Since the total number of participants in Germany reached up to 50,000 a year in the mid- 1980s , the Forest Youth Games also attracted international attention. In the meantime, 482,000 schoolchildren have participated in the East Bavarian Forest Youth Games in 43 years.

Next Vangerow was also the initiator of the International Mainauer Youth Games, held annually since 1986 on Lake Constance -Insel Mainau from the Lennart Bernadotte Foundation are organized. Every spring around 400 fourth graders from the countries bordering Lake Constance meet Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria, Austria , Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein .

In addition to the environmental education of children and young people, the forester also campaigned for the promotion of environmental awareness among soldiers of the Bundeswehr . For this purpose there was a forest and environment day for the 4th hunter division for the first time near Regensburg in November 1988.

Forest history research

Vangerow has also dealt intensively with historical issues and is considered a specialist in forest history in Old Bavaria . In 1976 he received his doctorate in the forestry department of the University of Munich with the forest-historical study from city law to forest regulations. Munich and the Isarwinkel until 1569 as Dr. rer. silv. In 2005 habilitated it with the biographical representation of Johann Heinrich Kosteletzky of Sladowa (1688-1769), a Bohemian fate. From the royal court hunter in Bohemia to the electoral chief forest master in Bavaria at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He is also involved in the “Forest History Working Group in Bavaria”.

Vangerow wrote over 500 publications in books and various specialist journals and repeatedly took a pointed position on current forest issues, whereby he liked to use the journalistic form of presentation of glosses . In the recent past he has not kept behind the mountain, especially with criticism of the forest reform in Bavaria . He is also critical of the fact that the Bavarian Forest National Park is no longer part of the forest administration, but rather the Ministry of the Environment.

Hans-Heinrich Vangerow has been honored several times for his diverse professional and voluntary commitment, including the award of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1981 . At the ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the Forest Youth Games in May 2009 at the Regensburg Forest Adventure Center, Forest Minister Helmut Brunner awarded him the Bavarian Lion. In his laudation, the minister paid tribute to the “father of the forest youth games” with the words: “Your goal was no longer to“ establish ”knowledge about the forest, but to impart it in a playful and sporty way in a fair competition between the school classes."

Vangerow lived in Donaustauf from 1973 until his death .

Awards

Since 1997 he has been awarded the Dr. Vangerow Prize in honor of the International Mainau Youth Games .

Fonts

  • Linz and the Danube trade of the year 1627. In: Archive of the City of Linz (Hrsg.): Historical yearbook of the city of Linz . 1963. Linz 1963, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Shipmen and ship stocks on the Danube from Passau to Vienna in 1566. In: 50 Years of the Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz. Linz 1985, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • From city law to forest regulations. Munich and the Isarwinkel up to the year 1569. Dissertation, Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia (Issue 66) / Neue Schriftenreihe des Stadtarchivs München (Volume No. 86), Munich 1976, ISBN 3-87913-066-3 .
  • Forest and wood in the Upper Palatinate. Contributions to the history and regional studies of the Upper Palatinate (issue 24), Regensburg 1982.
  • School in the forest. A forest science handout. Munich 1984.
  • Aspects of the forestry measurement and surveying system in Kurbayern and the Upper Palatinate. In: Structure and evaluation of "long series" for research into historical forest conditions and forest developments , Tübingen 1999.
  • as co-author: 250 years of the Bavarian State Forest Administration. Munich 2002.
  • Johann Heinrich Kosteletzky von Sladowa (1688–1769), a Bohemian fate. From the royal court hunter in Bohemia to the electoral chief forest master in Bavaria. Habilitation thesis, 2 volumes, Freiburg 2005 ( full text ).

literature

  • Erich Hornsmann : Dr. Vangerow 60 years , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ), Volume 39, Issue 17/18 1984, p. 459, ISSN  0002-5860
  • P. S .: Dr. Vangerow in well-earned retirement . In: AFZ / Allgemeine Forst magazine for forest management and environmental protection . Volume 44, issue 27/1989, p. 725

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mittelbayerische from January 3, 2020: Obituary: Hans-Heinrich Vangerow is dead , accessed on January 3, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Fritz Winter: A task for several generations. Hans Heinrich Vangerow was the first director of the Bavarian Forest National Park. He has good and bad memories of the early years. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung ( online version of May 20, 2011; accessed on August 3, 2011)
  3. ↑ a b c P. S .: Dr. Vangerow in well-earned retirement . In: AFZ / Allgemeine Forst magazine for forest management and environmental protection . Volume 44, issue 27/1989, p. 725
  4. ↑ Hans Heinrich Vangerow: Forest Youth Games - Environmental Education , in: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 38th year, issue 8/1983, p. 188
  5. ↑ Figures based on Erich Hornsmann: Dr. Vangerow 60 years , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ), 39th volume, issue 17/18 1984, p. 459
  6. ↑ u. a. Hans-Heinrich Vangerow: Forest reform - lesson for bankruptcies, bad luck and breakdowns. Audit office reports, Huber paper and employee information suggest something bad for the Bavarian state forest administration . In: Holz-Zentralblatt , 130th year, edition 6/2004, p. 90, ISSN  0018-3792
  7. ↑ Bavarian Lion for the founder of the Forest Youth Games ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on April 13, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayern.de
predecessor Office successor
--- Head of the Bavarian Forest National Park Administration from
1973 to 1979 		Hans Bibelriether
personal data
SURNAME Vangerow, Hans-Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vangerow, Hans Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and historian; Creator of the forest youth games
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tapiau , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2019
Place of death Donaustauf