Heinrich Eberts (Forester)

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Heinrich Eberts (born May 14, 1883 in Födersdorf , East Prussia , † April 22, 1979 in Göttingen ) was a German forest clerk and ministerial official. At the same time teacher at the forest academies in Eberswalde and Hannoversch Münden, he had the greatest influence in the forest policy of the Third Reich.

Life

As the son and grandson of Förstern , Eberts attended the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg i. Pr. After graduating from high school in 1901, he first went through practical training at his father's forestry office in Födersdorf. He then studied at the Albertus University in Königsberg and the Royal Prussian Forest Academy in Hannoversch Münden . In 1905 he passed the forestry trainee examination and in 1909 the great forestry state examination. Then he joined the Prussian state forest administration. He was involved in forest management in Preussisch Eylau and was a laborer for the government in Königsberg .

As a reserve officer in the Jäger Battalion Fürst Bismarck (Pommersches) No. 2 , he took part in the entire First World War. He was wounded several times and was highly decorated. On November 1, 1919, he took over the chief forester in Ullersorf , Bunzlau district . Since 1928 government and forestry councilor, he became an inspection officer first in Erfurt , then in Kassel . In Hannoversch Münden he held a teaching position for forest policy, then for political science and finance at the higher forestry school in Eberswalde . In 1930 he became a senior government councilor and forest councilor. In 1931 he initiated the establishment of a chair for forest policy and forest business administration. In the spring of 1932 he became full professor for forest science and chair of forest policy and forest management at the Hannoversch Münden Forestry University . After joining the NSDAP, in 1933 he was appointed chairman of the NS teachers' association at the Hannoversch Münden Forestry University. In October 1933 he came to the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests as a forest master, then to the Prussian Forest Administration and the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture . The Eberswalde Forest Academy gave him a teaching position in 1933 . At her suggestion, he was appointed honorary professor in 1934. In the same year he became Oberlandforstmeister . It was in 1937 Secretary and 1940. Secretary appointed. From 1937 to 1945 Eberts was head of the forest and wood research department in the Reich Research Council . In the Reich Forestry Office , he was from 1943 to 1945 Head of Central and Persons Department and the Department of Forest Policy and Forest Science. An appointment to the chair for forest policy at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna was suspended because of the war.

In the post-war period he lived in the Bramwald Forestry Office and later in Göttingen. There he became chairman of the board of trustees of the non-profit society Albertinum e. V. He was buried in the city ​​cemetery (Göttingen) .

meaning

The merits of Eberts were

  1. the draft of a Reich Forest Act; all forest owners should manage their forest as well as possible in the interest of the whole people. Personal responsibility and self-management should be encouraged. The intended replacement of the (harmful) forest permits was particularly important.
  2. the promotion and standardization of forest and wood management training, approval of the new course for wood management in Eberswalde, later in Reinbek and Hamburg
  3. the promotion of forestry and wood industry research. The expansion of the Prussian Wood Research Institute and its elevation to the Reich Institute for Wood Research were his work. The creation of the Reich Institute for Foreign and Colonial Forestry would not have been possible without Eberts. The relocation of this institute from Tharandt to Reinbek created the prerequisites for what would later become the Federal Research Institute for Forestry and Wood Management .

Honorary positions

  • Curator of the Society for Forest Work Science (1936–1945)
  • Chairman of the Reich Examination Committee for Higher Forest Service (1937–1945)
  • Head of the Forest and Wood Research Division of the German Research Foundation (1938–1945)
  • President of the Reichsarboretum Society (from 1938)
  • Head of the Forest Policy Committee in the German Forest Association

Memberships

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Göttingen death register for 1979
  2. ↑ a b c The forest science department of the University of Freiburg from 1920 to 1945 (Diss. Freiburg 2009)
  3. ↑ Peter-Michael Steinsiek: The Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen under National Socialism (2015)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Heinrich Eberts 90 years old (Ostpreußenblatt, May 12, 1973)
  5. ↑ Forest economy and forest management (GAU)
  6. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 41-42.
  7. ^ Society of the German Arboretum
personal data
SURNAME Eberts, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest and ministerial officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Födersdorf , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1979
Place of death Goettingen