Hansjörg Oeschger

Hansjörg Oeschger (born March 11, 1908 in Säckingen ; † November 24, 1998 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German forest official and forest scientist . As a chief forestry officer, he worked in various forest offices in southern Germany . In addition to his administrative work, Oeschger also worked scientifically. In the 1930s he was actively involved in the Bundische, Catholic youth movement .

Life

Hansjörg Oeschger was born in Säckingen as the son of the lawyer and notary Max Emil Oeschger (1877–1963) and his wife Anna Maria Gasser (1875–1957) . He passed the Abitur in 1926 at the Neuburg-Oberrealschule in Freiburg im Breisgau. He completed his forestry studies in Freiburg im Breisgau, Vienna and Giessen with an exam in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1930. He worked as a forest assessor in 1934 in his function as federal leader of the Catholic Quickborn movement in founding the Bündische Grauer Orden group . He was therefore under Gestapo surveillance, was temporarily arrested and was supposed to be sent to a concentration camp , which was only thwarted by his conscription to the Wehrmacht . Oeschger married Elisabeth Musler on September 20, 1938 in Meßkirch . He took part in the Second World War in France and the Soviet Union , where he was seriously injured by shrapnel in March 1943.

After the war he started working in the forestry service of the Thurn and Taxis Forest Administration in Wörth an der Donau (Bavaria). In 1946 Oeschger returned to the Baden State Forest Service. He retired on January 1, 1972.

Services

In addition to his work in the anti-National Socialist youth movement during the so-called Third Reich , his forest science work is important. The focus of these studies was the cultivation of Douglas fir in Baden-Württemberg. After his retirement, he wrote the study of Douglas fir cultivation in Baden-Württemberg with special consideration of the historical development , which was published in 1975 in Stuttgart by the state forest administration of Baden-Württemberg. Shortly after the end of the war he had made his concern about the endangerment of the German forest public in an article for the magazine Frankfurter Hefte , which was published by Eugen Kogon and others (Hansjörg Oeschger: Die Endangerment des Waldes in Deutschland. In: Frankfurter Hefte. Zeitschrift for culture and politics, Volume 2, 1947, pp. 514-519).

literature

• Heiko Haumann , Dagmar Rübsam: Resistance . In: History of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. Volume 3: From the rule of Baden to the present. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0857-3 , pp. 339-351, here pp. 342f.