Hans Albrecht (politician, 1923)

Hans Albrecht (born September 27, 1923 in Stadelhofen , Upper Franconia ; † February 28, 2006 in Wiernsheim , Baden-Württemberg ) was a German forester and Baden-Württemberg politician of the FDP and from 1972 to 1984 Vice President of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

education and profession

Hans Albrecht went to school in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart . His uncle, who was the head of the forestry office in Wehingen on the Swabian Alb , encouraged his interest in the forest at an early stage. Immediately after graduating from high school in 1942, Hans Albrecht was drafted into the Wehrmacht and seriously wounded on the Eastern Front in 1943. He used his recovery time to begin studying forest sciences at the natural science and mathematics faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . After the preliminary forest examination in Freiburg, however, he had to return to the service in 1944, was taken prisoner of war and was only able to continue his studies in September 1945. In 1946 he became a member of the Corps Hubertia Freiburg . One of his fellow students was Max Scheifele , who later became head of the Baden-Württemberg state forest administration . Due to the severe bark beetle calamity at the time, both came to the Hegau as graduate students . After graduating with a degree in forestry, his legal traineeship took him to the forest offices of Aalen , Schwäbisch Hall and Esslingen . In 1949 he passed the “ Great Forest State Examination ” (state examination) and was then official administrator at the Esslingen Forestry Office until 1951. After a short time as a second official at the Aalen Forestry Office, in 1953 he accepted the call to the North Württemberg Forestry Directorate in Stuttgart and at the same time became the state manager of the German Forest Protection Association (SDW).

On June 19, 1956, the Wiernsheim Forestry Office was transferred to him, of which he remained until his retirement in 1989. In 1955 he was promoted to forester , in 1964 to chief forestry council and in 1971 to forestry director. In the forestry department Wiernsheim, which is not easy in terms of silviculture , the preservation of the silver fir played a special role in the eastern part, which includes the foothills of the Black Forest , while the Enz valley was largely shaped by hardwood . Under Albrecht's leadership, it was possible to quickly remove the initially considerable maintenance residues and pseudo-tillers. Since the corporate forest accounted for the most significant share of 75 percent of the forest area in his forestry department, Albrecht created a pioneering form of management for this early on by bringing it together in a kind of operating community: the forestry department handled the wood sales for the forest owners and, with its state-owned forest workers, also those necessary forest work on site. His commitment to the technically correct and thus sustainable management of the communal forest soon led to Hans Albrecht being brought in as a consultant at the meetings of the corporate forest management . The forestry office in Wiernsheim survived the organizational reform in 1975 largely unscathed - the forest area to be looked after increased from 3,000 to 5,000 hectares .

Political activity

Hans Albrecht was a member of the FDP. From 1965 to 1973 he was a member of the district council of the Vaihingen district and then of the Enz district until 1990 . From 1973 he was also a member of the association assembly of the Northern Black Forest region . He was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1968 to 1995. From 1972 to 1984 he was Vice President of the State Parliament for three electoral terms. Albrecht was also the deputy chairman and managing director of the FDP / DVP parliamentary group as well as the senior president. He was a member of the Federal Assembly in 1969 , 1974 , 1979 and 1984 .

For a long time Albrecht was the only forest official in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. He devoted himself above all to domestic politics , especially when it came to preserving municipal freedom and strengthening civic responsibility. In questions of nature conservation , ecology and hunting law , he brought his forestry expertise to bear and in numerous motions and debates - for example when the State Forest Act was passed in 1976 - he emphatically advocated the interests of the forest and the people who work there.

family

Hans Albrecht was married and had two daughters.

Memberships, honorary positions and awards

Hans Albrecht was an honorary citizen of the city of Wiernsheim, holder of the Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg and holder of the Merit Cross 1st Class (1976) and the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1989). He was a member of the administrative board of the Landesgirokasse Stuttgart and the Broadcasting Council of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk as well as deputy state chairman of the German Forest Protection Association.

literature

• Max Scheifele : Forest Director and Vice President of the State Parliament Hans Albrecht 60 years . In: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 38th volume, issue 19/1983, ISSN  0015-7961 , page 508
• Klaus-J. Holzapfel (Ed.): State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg - 11th electoral period - 1992–1996 . 1st edition. Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1993, ISBN 3-87576-296-7 , page 33 (and corresponding entries in the Landtag manuals of the previous election periods)

Web links

• Press release of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg on the death of Hans Albrecht

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 79 , 164
2. ^ N. N .: Hans Albrecht awarded the Great Cross of Merit with a Star . In: AFZ / Allgemeine Forst magazine for forest management and environmental protection . Volume 44, issue 14/1989, p. 367