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Hans Joachim Fröhlich (also Hans-Joachim Fröhlich ; * December 16, 1923 in Gelnhausen ; † December 20, 2008 ) was a German forest scientist and nature conservationist . From 1968 to 1988 he was head of the Hessian forest administration. He is known to the general public primarily for his commitment to preserving striking old trees . His contribution to the establishment of the 2500 kilometer long German Avenue from the island of Rügen to the Bodensee island of Reichenau also served this goal .

Live and act

Hans Joachim Fröhlich was born in the Meerholz district of Gelnhausen. After attending grammar school in Büdingen , he became a soldier and volunteered for the Navy , where he made it to the position of naval officer . Only after the end of the Second World War could he begin his forestry studies at the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen in Hannoversch Münden , which he completed in 1950. In 1952, at the end of his legal traineeship in the Hessian Forest Administration, he passed the Great State Forest Examination in Wiesbaden .

After a brief spell as Forsteinrichter and Standortskartierer in Hessen he became a research assistant at the Forest Botanical Institute of the Faculty of Forestry in Hannoversch Munden, where he in 1955 about the possibilities autovegetativer propagation of native trees and shrubs to Doctor of Forestry (forest Dr.) Received his doctorate. After a short period as an area assistant at the Gahrenberg Teaching Forestry Office , the Hessian Forest Administration entrusted him with the construction of a breeding station. Despite numerous resistances and financial bottlenecks, the Hessian Institute for Forest Plant Breeding developed from this in 1961 , a multi-faceted institution known and recognized worldwide in the following years. Then came the 1962 to Hann. Münden relocated the research institute for poplar farming . Fröhlich headed both institutes.

At the same time, Fröhlich completed additional studies in genetics , botany and organic chemistry from 1961 to 1963 , went on study trips abroad and also looked after a small private forest area. In 1967 he completed his habilitation at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Munich and received the license to teach the entire field of forest science . In addition, the University of Munich appointed him honorary professor in 1974 .

As state forest master , Hans Joachim Fröhlich became head of the Hessian state forest administration in 1968, a position he held for 20 years. During this time he headed the “Forests and Nature Conservation” department in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests in Wiesbaden, where he has lived since then. He managed to keep forestry, hunting and nature protection together in his administration and to strengthen it organizationally through independent central bodies. He was instrumental in bringing about the implementation of the Hessian Forest Act and the adoption of a Hessian state forest program in 1982. As a result, forests and forestry received a corresponding specialist planning status within the regional planning in the Hessian state planning law . He succeeded in this above all because, in addition to all his technical skills, he used his talents as a shrewd tactician and master of public relations .

In 1974 Fröhlich took over the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees for Forest Work and Forest Technology (KWF) for a decade and a half . During his tenure, Fröhlich expanded this joint facility of German forestry in a targeted manner and made it an engine of forest technology development. The KWF conferences, held every four years, developed under his leadership into a comprehensive platform for the industry and, in connection with their forest machines and innovations show, were of European importance. Fröhlich provided important impulses for the further development of forest technology, working methods and testing, as well as for accident prevention, which is extremely important within forestry . He recognized early on that the German forestry industry only had one chance of survival economically by increasing its labor productivity, while at the same time finding an acceptable compromise between silvicultural goals and the indispensable mechanization.

In addition, development aid projects around the world took him . The forestry uses of the poplar species, one of his specialties, continued to occupy him. Fröhlich wrote hundreds of scientific and other publications, including a number of books. Always striving to do everything to preserve and promote the forest, he was also deputy president of the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW) for many years .

After retiring from active service (1988), Hans Joachim Fröhlich found another life task in the work of preserving influential tree personalities. He was the initiator of the Kuratorium Old lovable trees in Germany eV , today Kulturgut Baum eV , founded on February 7, 1988. Fröhlich then began to systematically map and catalog the old and distinctive trees in Germany. The result was the book series "Paths to Old Trees", which began in 1990 with Hessen and Bavaria and opened up the other federal states in the following years. In the course of their mapping, Fröhlich and his colleagues recorded more than 3,500 striking trees in this way. The trees recorded by Fröhlich in the book series are continued in Baumkunde.de, an online database for trees and shrubs. A selection of stories about these giant trees were presented to the general public in the photo book Old lovable trees in Germany as well as in television and radio broadcasts. As early as 1987, this commitment was also reflected artistically. With Fröhlich's professional advice, the eight-part collection plate series Uralte Giant, designed by Ernst Wetteroth, was created .

The Deutsche Alleenstrasse begins on Rügen

The reunification called Cheerful on the plan. Because of the rapid expansion of the infrastructure in the new federal states, the avenues that were still numerous in the east were threatened. It is largely thanks to Fröhlich that they were received. This was achieved in close cooperation with ADAC , the German Tourism Association and the German Forest Protection Association (SDW). Fröhlich's initiative as part of the “Deutsche Alleenstrasse” working group ultimately led to the designation of the longest holiday route in Germany with a total of around 2500 kilometers . It extends from the island of Rügen to the Bodensee island of Reichenau.

Once again, Fröhlich was one of the driving forces when the Board of Trustees for Old Lovable Trees in Germany and the German Foundation for Monument Protection , chaired by Gottfried Kiesow, agreed to work more closely together in 2003. Since then, the Monument Protection Foundation, of which Fröhlich was a member of the Board of Trustees, has increasingly advocated the care and promotion of outstanding tree shapes. This also meant a departure from the previous tree care , which primarily relies on crown and branch pruning. Fröhlich and the Board of Trustees, on the other hand, favored new methods of vitalising trees, which were developed and tested in cooperation with university institutes and tree specialists. The focus is on improving the soil, which is to be ensured above all by enriching the mycorrhizal flora in the root area.

State Forester a. D. Hans Joachim Fröhlich died a few days after his 85th birthday on December 20, 2008.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

scientific publications

  • Investigations on the autovegetative reproduction of our wood species after the application of growth substances , dissertation, Hannoversch Münden 1955
  • with Reinhard Schober : The Gahrenberg larch provenance experiment. A biological and yield research and methodological study , series of publications by the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 37/38), Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1967
  • with Wilfrid Grosscurth: Breeding, cultivation and production of poplars , communications from the Hessian Forest Administration (Volume 10), Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7939-0250-1

Popular science publications

Publications as editor

  • Wildlife biology research and observations , communications from the Hessian Forest Administration (Volume 18), Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-7939-0610-8
  • Vitalization of trees , monuments publications of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-936942-49-8

In addition, Fröhlich was also interested in the works Zauber der Jagd, elaborately designed and edited by Kurt G. Blüchel . Masterpieces of hunting literature, hunting painting and nature photography (Munich 1983, ISBN 3-923723-01-6 ; special edition later under ISBN 3-89836-123-3 ) and the tropical rainforest - the garden of Eden, published in cooperation with the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald eV not die (Munich no year, approx. 1992) involved.

literature

  • Richard Plochmann : Hans-Joachim Fröhlich on his 60th birthday. In: The forest and wood host. Volume 38 23/1983, ISSN  0015-7961 , pp. 612-613.
  • EJ Gärtner, D. Müller: State Forester Professor Dr. Happy 65 years. In: Forest and Wood. Volume 44 1/1989, ISSN  0932-9315 , pp. 18-19.
  • Westermacher: State Forester Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Fröhlich retired. In: Allgemeine Forstzeitschrift. Volume 44, 3/1989, ISSN  0002-5860 , p. 70.
  • A. Herzog: Professor Dr. Hans Joachim Fröhlich retired. In: Journal for Hunting Science. 35th year, 1/1989, ISSN  0044-2887 , p. 75.
  • Anonymous: Professor Dr. HJ Fröhlich, KWF chairman from November 28, 1974 to November 23, 1988. In: Forsttechnische Informations. 40th year, 11–12 / 1988, pp. 80–81 (also cover picture).
  • Carsten Wilke : Prof. Dr. Hans-J. Happy †. In: AFZ / DerWald. 64th volume, issue 4/2009, ISSN  1430-2713 , p. 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Plochmann: Hans-Joachim Fröhlich for his 60th birthday . In: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 38th year 23/1983, p. 613
  2. ^ Professor Hans Joachim Fröhlich - 80 years , KWF press release No. 11/2003 of December 18, 2003
  3. ^ Richard Plochmann: Hans-Joachim Fröhlich for his 60th birthday . In: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 38th year 23/1983, p. 613
  4. ↑ Baumkunde.de - online database for trees and bushes
  5. ↑ Description of the Board of Trustees Old Lovable Trees in Germany eV ( Memento from April 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Happy, Hans Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Happy, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelnhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2008