Hans-Josef Cosack

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Hans-Josef Cosack (born October 10, 1891 at the Wildshausen manor near Arnsberg ; † 1963 there ) was a German hunting official and landowner .

Life

He was the son of Josef II. Cosack, from whom he inherited the Wildshausen manor , and Elsbeth, nee. von Rudloff and came from a Westphalian family of landowners and industrialists. His grandfather was the industrialist Josef Cosack .

Cosack was already active in organized hunting in South Westphalia and the Hochsauerland before the Second World War , which was continued at the federal level after the Second World War. As a distinguished hunting official, he succeeded his friend Albert Frhr in 1954. von Boeselager Chairman of the German Hunting Association (DJV), which he remained until 1960. During his time at the head of the German hunting community, Cosack made a name for himself in the fight against the incipient usury of leases for hunting areas. His advocacy that hunting should be viewed as a natural handicraft and practiced with respect for the animal turned against the emerging tendencies of trophy hunting as a kind of sporting leisure time without any further sense of responsibility for the creature. Views like these earned Cosack the nickname "the green Hindenburg" during his tenure. In 1960 he was made honorary president of the DJV.

Furthermore, the convinced Catholic Cosack had the Hubertus Chapel built in Wildshausen in 1922 and was co-founder of the Hegering Arnsberg in 1947 .

His marriage had three children.

Others

Around 1940, Hans-Josef Cosack caused a sensation when he shot the strongest stag in his territory around the Wildshausen manor in the Sauerland, which up to this point had been sighted in Germany west of the Elbe. Said stag, whose existence had got around in the previous years, had already reserved Reichsjägermeister Hermann Göring for shooting, which Cosack deliberately ignored. The hunting rebellion against Göring almost brought Cosack to court.

The antlers of the Wildshausener stag later appeared on the cover of a German hunting training center and are still attached to the entrance of the Jagd & Hund trade fair in Dortmund every year .

In 1946, only a few months after the end of the Second World War, Cosack had already obtained a hunting permit through good relations with the American district commander Swayne before the weapons ban in post-war Germany was lifted . Word of this exception got around to London within a short time and led to an official request from some Labor MPs in the lower house of the British Parliament for rearmament in the Arnsberg district .

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SURNAME Cosack, Hans-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hunting functionary and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildshausen manor near Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH 1963
Place of death Wildshausen manor near Arnsberg