Hans Achim Gussone

Hans Achim Gussone (sometimes also Hans A. Gussone ; born January 7, 1926 in Schneidemühl , Grenzmark Province of Posen-West Prussia ; † December 9, 1997 in Göttingen ) was a German forest scientist . Gussone headed the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute from 1978 to 1991 and was an internationally recognized expert in the forestry fields of crop science and forest nutrition .

Life and accomplishments

Hans Achim Gussone came from an old family of foresters. He was born on January 7, 1926 as the son of forester Hans Gussone in Schneidemühl, West Prussia, and spent his youth in Neumark . He attended high school in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) , but was drafted into the Reich Labor Service before graduating from high school in 1943 and then in 1944 into the Wehrmacht . After the end of the Second World War , he was interned in Austria , then worked for a year as a forest worker at the Neuhaus im Solling forestry office and in 1947 completed his Abitur at the Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium in Montabaur . He then completed the Rheinische Verwaltungsschule (forest school in Cochem ) and a six-month training period in a sawmill.

From 1949 Gussone studied forest sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the forestry faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Hann. Münden . In Freiburg he became a member of the student association KDStV Ripuaria Freiburg im Breisgau . He took a leave of absence from the subsequent legal clerkship - which among other things took him back to the Montabaur Forestry Office - because he wanted to tackle a scientific thesis at the Forest Research Center of Ruhrstickstoff AG . As a result, he decided to retire from civil service in 1953 and to work in the Ruhr nitrogen research center in the following years. During this time, Hans Achim Gussone specialized in questions of forest yield science and fertilization . In 1962 he was investigating surveying methods in young pine stands. Shown on the results of the fertilization test Gades-Ehra with Michail Prodan in Freiburg did his doctorate and was appointed head of the forest research center of Ruhrstickstoff AG. In 1971 he was appointed head of the chemical-technical department of the Board of Trustees for Forest Work and Forest Technology (KWF) .

After Gussone had completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen in 1972 with the publication On Forestry Fertilization Experiments with a Special Purpose for Silviculture in the Northwest German Plains, in 1976 he was appointed head of the forest growth department of the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute and an adjunct professor at the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen for the subjects of forest growth and profitability. From 1978 until he retired in 1991, Gussone headed the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute.

During his scientific work since the 1950s , he has dealt intensively with the possibilities and effects of fertilization, especially with nitrogen and phosphorus, on forest trees such as Scots pine , Norway spruce , Douglas fir , European beech and oak . The AID booklet Forest Fertilization , which he co-authored, was widely used in practice, first appeared in 1982 and had several editions up to 1991. It is not least thanks to Gussone's very differentiated approach that the use of fertilizers on a large scale in forestry has generally remained unusual to this day. In the course of the discussion about the so-called forest dieback , Gussone shifted his research focus at the beginning of the 1980s to the effects of immissions on forest stands and corresponding compensation options such as forest liming . Gussone published several dozen specialist articles on these topics. In succession to Kurt Mantel , he was also the editor and editor of the trade journal Forst und Holz from 1982 to 1997 .

Gussone memorial

The Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen awarded him the Heinrich Christian Burckhardt Medal in 1996 for his services in the fields of forest nutrition and crop science .

Hans Achim Gussone died on December 9, 1997 in Göttingen after a brief serious illness. A memorial for the Gussone forest rangers is located north of the Neuhaus hunting lodge .

Fonts

• Measurement method in young pine stands. Shown on the results of the fertilization experiment in Gades-Ehra , dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1962
• General figures for fertilization in the forest , Munich, Basel and Vienna 1964
• About forest fertilization experiments with special objectives for silviculture in the north-west German lowlands , habilitation thesis, Göttingen 1972; in print under this title as Volume 46 of the series of publications by the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main 1974 ( ISBN 3-7939-0300-1 )

He also worked with Horst Kramer and Reinhard Schober on the standard work on forest growth theory. Ecological and anthropogenic influences on the growth of the forest, its mass and value output and the security of the stand (1988). Together with Ernst Röhrig, he also obtained the sixth, completely revised edition of the textbook Silviculture on an ecological basis founded by Alfred Dengler (Volume 2, 1990).

From 1982 to 1997 Gussone published the journal Forst und Holz , for which he also made a number of large and small articles.

literature

• Zoltán Rozsnyay, Frank Kropp: Hans Achim Gussone . In this: Lower Saxony Forest Biography. A source volume. From the forest (1998): Messages from the Lower Saxony State Forest Administration (Issue 51). Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (MELF), Wolfenbüttel 1998, pp. 199–202.
• J. Kleinschmit: Hans-Achim Gussone in retirement , in: AFZ. General forest journal for forest management and environmental protection . 46th volume, issue 9/1991, p. 481, ISSN  0002-5860

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Achim Gussone in the catalog of the German National Library