Hermann Friedrich Becker

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Hermann Friedrich Becker (born April 21, 1766 in Rostock ; † October 5, 1852 there ) was a German forester . He is one of the founders of regulated forestry .

Life

Hermann Friedrich Becker came from the Rostock family of scholars that went back to Hermann Becker . The son of the pastor and professor Heinrich Valentin Becker (1732–1796) and his wife Anna Dorothea († 1787), daughter of the mayor Burgmann, was taught by private teachers until the age of ten and then attended the large city school in Rostock . From 1782 he studied mathematics, physics, architecture and economics at the University of Rostock .

In 1792 he became a forest inspector in the Rostocker Heide , based in Rövershagen . He introduced regulated forestry and thus created the basis for sustainable use of the forest. This included the division of the high forest into fields and the ban on forest pasture . He also developed a tree height meter named after him, which was used to estimate the length of timber in the stand and was used in forestry for a long time. He gave lectures in economics and camera studies at the University of Rostock .

In 1846 he retired in Rostock. His successor as forest inspector of the Rostock Heath was his son-in-law Georg Garthe.

In honor of Becker, a memorial stone was set in the Rostock Heath, which is known as the "Beckerstein". He is also considered to be the first bathing guest in Warnemünde known by name , which is reminiscent of a plaque in the Rostock district.

Fonts

  • Description of the trees and bushes that grow wild in Mecklenburg, for the use of the country folk and foresters . Koppe, Rostock 1791.
  • Topographical description of the holy dam at Dobberan and Rehdewisch in Mecklenburg . Wilhelm Bärensprung, Schwerin 1792.
  • Explanation of two electricity charts of Mecklenburg. Schwerin: Bear jump 1792
Digitized , Rostock University Library
  • Contributions to the political sciences with special regard to German provinces . Stiller; Leipzig, Rostock 1793–1795.
  • Systematic manual of forestry for use by young foresters . Wittekindt, Eisenach 1796.
  • About culture, artificial formation and felling of ship building timber: price writing . Leipzig 1804.
  • News from the Becker family along with notes ad the life of Hermann Friedrich Becker, Forest Inspector d. City of Rostock to Rövershagen . 1836-1852

literature

  • Becker, Hermann Friedrich . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , pp. 36-37.
  • Ernst Dragendorff : curriculum vitae and final compliment of a candidate from the Rostock Faculty of Philosophy from 1790 . ( Digital copy , PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hermann Friedrich Becker's first and second matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Rostocker Heide - Garthe Stein ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rostock.de
  3. ↑ Memorial plaque from Hermann Friedrich Becker at the Vogtei (Am Strom 59), Warnemünde

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personal data
SURNAME Becker, Hermann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1852
Place of death Rostock