Harald Thomasius

Harald Thomasius (born August 5, 1929 in Bräunsdorf ; † November 24, 2017 in Kurort Hartha ) was a German forest scientist .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a forest worker in the Fürstlich-Schönburg forestry office in Oberwald near Hohenstein-Ernstthal and working in the Glauchau forestry office , Thomasius attended the Tharandt forestry school , from 1949 worked as a district manager of the Oschatz district forestry office in Wermsdorf and also taught at the local forestry school. After further activities, including at the Saxon Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as obtaining the special maturity examination at the workers and farmers faculty in Dresden , Thomasius studied forest sciences at the Technical University of Dresden in Tharandt from 1954 to 1959 . In 1963, he did his doctorate on the subject of methodological studies on the possibility of quantitative location assessment with the help of growth functions . He was then a lecturer and from 1966 to 1968 lecturer for the basics of silviculture at the TU Dresden, Tharandt site . In addition, he was director of the Institute for Silviculture. In 1967, Thomasius completed his habilitation with the thesis Contribution to the theory and history of forest research .

From 1968 to 1992 he researched and taught as a professor of silviculture in the forestry section and the Tharandt department of forest sciences at the TU Dresden and was head of the research area (institute) silviculture and forest protection. He then worked productively in two companies until 1999.

Thomasius was the chairman of the Society for Nature and Environment, which was founded in 1980 in the Kulturbund of the GDR, and since 1984 has been an honorary doctor of the West Hungarian University of Sopron . Up until 2017, he published around 200 publications in Germany and abroad, mainly on modern and ecological silviculture , the welfare effects of the forest and the principles of forest management .

Works (selection)

• Aesthetic effects of the forest and their underlying principles. In: Archives for Nature Conservation and Landscape Research, 12/1972
• Prehistory and early history of the area around Tharandt. In: Forststadt Tharandt - Contributions to local history, Heft 4 (1975), pp. 11-17
• Environmental design - environmental protection. In: Neef, E., et al. Enzyklopädie Sozialistische Landeskultur, Leipzig 1977
• Forest, regional culture and society , 2nd edition, Jena 1978
• Deriving a procedure for calculating the optimal crop density in terms of yield. In: Contributions to forestry, 12/1978
• History of the forest town of Tharandt in pictures , Tharandt City Council and Kulturbund der DDR, Tharandt local group, 1979
• Productivity and stability of forest ecosystems , Berlin 1981
• Engineering ecology , Jena 1983
• Consideration of ecological laws in forestry. In: Textbook of Ecology, Jena 1984
• Forest images. An excursion into the local forests , VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, 1st edition (1985)
• Measures to stabilize spruce forests against snow and storm damage. In: Contributions to forestry, 21/1987
• Succession, productivity and stability of natural and artificial forest ecosystems. In: Archives for nature conservation and landscape research, 28/1988
• Stability of natural and artificial forest ecosystems and how they can be influenced by forestry measures. In: Allgemeine Forstzeitschrift, issue 38 and 39/1988
• Forest ecosystems. In: Neumeister, H .: Geoökologie, 1st edition, Jena 1988
• Forest images. An excursion into the local forests , VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, 2nd edition (1989) ISBN 978-3-325-00131-0 ISBN 3-325-00131-9
• The influence of mining on forestry and forestry in the Saxon Ore Mountains up to the beginning of the 19th century , Sächsischer Forstverein (Hrsg.), 48 p., Tharandt 1995
• For a socialist behavior of the citizens towards our natural environment. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 4/1992, pp. 145–146
• Forest recultivation. In: Wolfram Pflug (Hrsg.): Brown coal opencast mining and recultivation, Springer 1998, ISBN 3-540-60092-2
• Development of forestry in Saxony up to the end of the First World War Part I and II , Sächsischer Forstverein (Ed.), 64 p., Bautzen 2001
• Forests, deforestation, forest use and forestry in Saxony from the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the 19th century , lecture at the Dresden Seniors Academy in Tharandt on the anniversary of 200 years of forest teaching in Tharandt , January 19, 2011
• Heinrich Cotta - his life and work , lecture at the Seniorenstammtisch '99 in Kurort Hartha on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the forestry school - the later Royal Saxon Forest Academy in Tharandt , March 9, 2011
• Sylvicultura oeconomica - transcription into contemporary German , with Bernd Bendix, Verlag Kessel, Remagen-Oberwinter 2013, ISBN 978-3-941300-70-5 , reading sample http://forstbuch.de/ThomasiusBendixLeseprobe.pdf

literature

• R. Mosandl, W. Pfalz: Prof. Dr. habil. Dr. hc Harald Thomasius. 65th birthday. In: Wald (1994), No. 44 (10), p. 357, ISSN  0863-4807
• Thomasius, Harald. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 958.
• H. Fischer, D. Wüstrich: Initial phase of reforestation on cohesive tilting substrate. In: Forst und Holz, Volume 59, Issue 8, 2004, pp. 399–403 (Dedicated to Professor Dr. Dr. hc habil. Harald Thomasius on his 75th birthday)
• Siegfried Kuntsche:  Thomasius, Harald . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• A. Bemmann, M. Hartig: Prof. Dr. Dr.hc Harald Thomasius died , in Rund um den Tharandter Wald , Official Gazette of the City of Tharandt, 20th year - 2018, 1st edition 2018 v. January 15, 2018, p. 5

Web links

• Literature by and about Harald Thomasius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Harald Thomasius in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Sächsische Zeitung of November 28, 2017.