Heribert Kalchreuter

Heribert Kalchreuter (born March 13, 1939 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ; † March 14, 2010 in the Dominican Republic ) was a German hunting scientist and wildlife biologist . He achieved international fame primarily through his book The Hunting Case (first published in 1977). Kalchreuter worked for federal authorities, among others. Some of his scientific work is very controversial.

Life

Heribert Kalchreuter studied geology in Munich and forest sciences with a degree in forestry from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1970. Kalchreuter made numerous study trips to Europe , North , Central and South America and was a lecturer at the College of African Wildlife Management in Tanzania . From 1978 he worked in the hunting department of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry .

Kalchreuter was appointed professor in 2002 by the Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski . He was listed as a member of the "European Wildlife Research Institute" in Germany. However, there is no indication that this institute is more than a private Kalchreuter company. The address and telephone number were identical to Kalchreuter's private contact details in Bonndorf-Glashütte; after his death there was neither a website nor contact details for the institute on the Internet.

The cover text of the fifth edition of his main work "The Hunting Case" from 2003 identifies the institute as a facility of the Agricultural University of Poznań and claims that Kalchreuter holds a professorship here. However, on the website of the university, which has been called "Poznan Environmental University" since 2008, there is neither a reference to the existence of the institute nor to the fact that Kalchreuter ever held a professorship there.

Kalchreuter was active in various national and international bodies, for example in the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN , as a board member of Wetlands International , member of the Scientific Committee of the Agreement for the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterfowl (AEWA), President and later Honorary President of the Migratory Birds Commission of International Game Conservation Council (CIC). Kalchreuter died on March 14, 2010 while on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

plant

In 1977 he published his book The Hunting Thing . pro and contra , which attracted widespread attention at home and abroad and sparked controversial discussions. While it received great approval from hunting scientists like Kurt Lindner and the German Hunting Protection Association (DJV) awarded it the DJV Prize for Public Relations in 1978, it met with considerable criticism in nature conservation and especially ornithological journals as an apology for hunting. The work was also published in Danish and Polish as well as in paperback and received several updated editions.

In addition to general questions about hunting, Kalchreuter mainly dealt with birds and their hunting. In 1979 he published The Woodcock and wrote several books on the partridge and water game . He was also involved in drawing up the " Red List " of the bird species endangered in Baden-Württemberg in 1977.

In addition to non-fiction books, Kalchreuter published under the title Back to the Wilderness. Hunting adventures in Alaska, Africa and Asia 1990 Reports on his hunting trips in Tanzania , Alaska and Mongolia . In 2007 he supplemented these descriptions with the autobiographical book Between Wilderness and Civilization. Experiences of a hunting globetrotter .

reception

Some of Kalchreuter's ornithological works from the 1970s and early 1980s, especially his work on the woodcock and the carrion crow, received international attention, appeared in renowned journals such as Die Vogelwarte and are cited to the present day. His monograph "The Woodcock" has been praised by ornithologists such as Walter J. Bock and John Tautin . Kalchreuter published further work, especially in hunting magazines.

A number of his publications and reports have been and are criticized by ornithologists and nature conservationists as one-sided, unscientific or polemical. These publications deal primarily with the inventory of predators , with the supposed protection of certain animal species by hunting predators or with the effects of hunting on certain animal species. He is particularly often accused of not quoting the results of his own or third-party studies correctly or tendentiously or of drawing unjustified conclusions.

In contrast, his work received a positive reception in hunting science publications. For his book Das Wasserwild. Distribution and way of life. Hunting use and conservation (2000) the International Hunting Council for the Conservation of Game (CIC) awarded him the “CIC Literary Technical Prize” in 2002. His life's work in hunting sciences was honored with the “CIC Literary Cultural Prize”.

Fonts

• Investigations of the carrion crow populations (Corvus c. Corone). Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1970.
• The thing about the hunt. pros and cons. Munich, Bern and Vienna 1977. 5th edition under the title The thing with the hunt. Perspectives for the future of the forage. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09323-9 .
• The woodcock. Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-87341-030-3 .
• Hawk, human and prey. Information from wildlife research, No. 1. Bonndorf-Glashütte 1980.
• About the partridge and its environment. An overview of new findings. Information from wildlife research, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-87341-040-0 .
• (Ed.): Second European Woodcock and Snipe Workshop. Fordinbridge, England, 30th March - 1st April 1982. Slimbridge 1983.
• Water game in sight. Hunting and protecting water birds. Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1987. 2nd edition under the title Das Wasserwild. Distribution and way of life. Hunting use and conservation. Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-08150-8 .
• Back to the wild. Hunting adventures in Alaska, Africa and Asia. Hamburg and Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-490-40011-9 .
• Partridge current. An overview of new findings. Information from wildlife research, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-87341-074-5 .
• Hunter and Wildlife. Effects of hunting on animal populations. Information from wildlife research, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-87341-078-8 .
• (Ed.): Fourth European Woodcock and Snipe Workshop. Proceedings of an international symposium of the IWRB Woodcock and Snipe Research Group, Saarbrücken, Germany, April 6th - 8th 1992 = Quatrième Symposium Européen sur la Bécasse et la Bécassine. IWRB publication, 31, Slimbridge 1994, ISBN 0-9505731-4-0 .
• with Zygmunt Pielowski : Birds of prey and small game enclosure . Paris 1996.
• (Ed.): Proceedings of the First and the Second International Conference of Baltic Sea States, May 1993 and May 1995. Informations aus der Wildforschung, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-87341-083-4 .
• with Volker Guthörl: Wild animals and human disturbances. Issues and management. Information from wildlife research, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-87341-086-9 .
• (Ed.): Fifth European Woodcock and Snipe Workshop. Proceedings of an international symposium of the Wetlands International Woodcock and Snipe Specialist Group, Czempin, Poland, 3 - 5 May 1998. Wetlands International global series (4) / International wader studies (11), Wageningen 2000, ISBN 90-5882-004- 1 .
• Corvids and conservation. Findings from international research. Information from wildlife research, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-87341-096-6 .
• with Susanne Köneke: Between wilderness and civilization. Experiences of a hunting globetrotter. Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-440-11199-4 .
• Game birds. In: Richard Blase (Greetings): The hunter test . The teaching, learning and reference work for training and practice. 29th edition. Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-494-01434-0 .

literature

• Erhard Ueckermann : Dr. Heribert Kalchreuter Head of the Department of Game and Hunting Ecology at the Federal Research Institute for Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology. In: Journal for Hunting Science. Volume 27, Issue 4/1981, pp. 293–294, ISSN  0044-2887 .
• Thomas Winter: Hunting - Nature Conservation or Blood Sports? Passau 2003, ISBN 3-00-012219-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heribert Kalchreuter in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ https://www.google.de/search?q=european+wildlife+research+institute
3. ↑ Kalchreuter, Heribert: The thing with the hunt, Stuttgart 2003.
4. ↑ http://puls.edu.pl/?q=uczelnia/historia
5. ↑ See information on the organizational structure of the university under Archivlink ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as well as the person search at http://sklad.up.poznan.pl/ 
6. ↑ Prof. Heribert Kalchreuter has passed away. In: Wild and Dog. March 17, 2010 ( online , accessed March 18, 2010)
7. ↑ Heribert Kalchreuter: Foreword to the second edition. In: The thing with the hunt. pros and cons. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-596-23021-7 , pp. 11-12.
8. ↑ Bernt-Erik Sæther: Survival Rates in Relation to Body Weight in European Birds. In: Ornis Scandinavica. Vol. 20, No. 1, March 1989, pp. 13-21.
   • Tore Slagsvold: Sex, Size, and Natural Selection in the Hooded Crow Corvus corone cornix. In: Ornis Scandinavica. Vol. 13, No. 3, December 1982, pp. 165-175.
   • Nicola Saino: Selection of Foraging Habitat and Flocking by Crow Corvus corone Phenotypes in a Hybrid Zone. In: Ornis Scandinavica. Vol. 23, No. April 2 - June 1992, pp. 111-120
9. ↑ Review to Die Waldschnepfe by Heribert Kalchreuter. In: The Auk. Vol. 97, no. 3, July 1980, p. 651.
10. ↑ Herbert W. Kale, II, John A. Horsfall, Fred E. Lohrer: Supplement: Recent Literature (Apr., 1984). In: The Auk. Vol. 101, No. 2, p. 17B.
11. ↑ Hermann Knüwer: On the question of maintaining the year-round closed season for birds of prey. In: Reports of the German Section of the International Council for Bird Protection. 20, 1980, pp. 33-40.
    • Gerhard Thielcke : Review by: H. Kalchreuter: Habicht, Mensch und Prey. In: Inf. Wildforsch. 1, pp. 1-26. In: Reports of the German Section of the International Council for Bird Protection. 20 1980, pp. 142-144.
    • Jochen Hölzinger : Expert opinion on a bird of prey survey in 1980 by the Baden-Württemberg State Hunting Association. In: Reports of the German Section of the International Council for Bird Protection. 21, 1981, pp. 113-125.
    • U. Mäck, M.-E. Jürgens, P. Boye, H. Haupt: Carrion crow (Corvus corone), magpie (Pica pica) and jay (Garrulus glandarius) in Germany. Considerations of their role in the ecosystem and the need for stock management. In: Nature and Landscape. 74, No. 11, 1999, pp. 485-493.
    • W. Epple: Corvids. In: K. Richarz, E. Bezzel, M. Hormann (Ed.): Pocket book for bird protection. Aula, Wiebelsheim, 2001, ISBN 3-89104-653-7 , pp. 421-439, here p. 425.
    • W. Epple et al .: Script Review. In: Journal of Ornithology. 140, 1999, p. 373.
    • J. Bellebaum: Predation as a threat to ground-breeding birds in Germany - an overview. In: Reports on bird protection. 39, 2002, pp. 95–117, here p. 108.
    • T. Winter: Jagd - Naturschutz oder Blutsport ?, Passau 2003, pp. 55–65 and 80–102.
12. ^ Journal of Hunting Science. 29, 4, 2001, p. 275.
    • Journal of Hunting Science. 47, 2001, p. 162.
13. ↑ CIC: Literary Prize Winners, 2002 (English)