Heinz Quitt
Heinz Quitt (born February 27, 1928 in Tröbsdorf ) is a German forest engineer and conservationist in Saxony-Anhalt .
Life
He grew up near Weimar . After attending school, Heinz Quitt studied forest sciences at the forestry faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin in Eberswalde , where he graduated as a qualified forest engineer. From 1953 he worked as a chief forester in the Güstrow State Forestry Company and then in the Genthin State Forestry Company . From 1957 to 1963, Heinz Quitt worked in the forestry department of the Magdeburg District Council.
In 1963 he went to Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains . In the local state forestry company he worked as production director until 1972, after which he moved to Ilsenburg (Harz) , where he headed the local forester as a forester. The forestry office there became the Ilsenburg Forestry Office in 1991, and he was its head of the forestry office until he reached retirement age in February 1993. Since then he has been living in retirement in Wernigerode.
Heinz Quitt was nature conservation officer for the GDR district of Magdeburg from 1963 to 1988. From 1960 to 1986 he was also chairman of the regional committee for regional culture and nature conservation in Magdeburg. In addition, he worked for several years in the district technical committee for dendrology and garden architecture . He is also one of the founding members of the Central Technical Committee for Nature Conservation in the Society for Nature and the Environment . In Wernigerode he was next to Uwe Wegener u. a. Founding member of the Society for the Promotion of the Hochharz National Park , of which he later became honorary chairman.
Publications (selection)
- The chestnut grove near Wernigerode from a historical and national cultural perspective , 1985
- The nature reserves of Saxony-Anhalt , 1997 (participation)
Honors
- Honorary Chairman of the Society for the Promotion of the Harz National Park
- 2013 Amur cork tree in the pleasure garden in Wernigerode
literature
- Quitt, Heinz . In: Institute for Environmental History and Regional Development eV (ed.): Lexicon of Nature Conservation Commissioners, Volume 2: Saxony-Anhalt , Friedland 2006: pp. 258–260.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quitt, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forest engineer and conservationist in Saxony-Anhalt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tröbsdorf |