Hermann Reuss

Hermann Reuss (born April 5, 1848 in Harzgerode , Anhalt; † February 26, 1931 in Mährisch Weißkirchen , Czechoslovakia) was a German forester, author and educator.

Live and act

Hermann Reuss comes from an old forest ranger family in Anhalt. He was the third child of the senior forest officer Louis Reuss and his wife Karoline geb. Chunks. At the age of eight he moved with his parents and five siblings to Wittgenstein Castle near Laasphe , after his father was appointed chief forestry officer there in 1857 and he was entrusted with the management of Prince Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein's rent chamber. Hermann Reuss attended grammar school in Arnsberg and, like his brother Carl , studied forestry at the Tharandt Forestry Academy . He became a member of the Corps Silvania and distinguished himself as a senior .

After his father resigned his position as head of Prince Wittgenstein's forest administration and on April 1, 1872, he followed a call from Prince Josef Franz Hieronymus von Colloredo-Mannsfeld to manage his forest domains, the Reuss family moved to Dobrisch in Bohemia. To the Dr. In the same year, Hermann joined the forest administration there as a forester. In 1879 he worked there as a lecturer.

From around 1878 Hermann Reuss began his professional literary work and wrote a number of forestry treatises and essays. Particularly noteworthy is his teaching and manual "Die Forstliche Standesgründes", which he published in 1907. It is considered a standard work in forest sciences and is reprinted to the present day. His qualification earned him the call to the Moravian-Silesian Higher Forest School on the Eulenburg in Eulenberg , of which he became the fifth director and which he headed for almost 20 years until 1917. Under his direction, this institute was relocated from Eulenberg to Mährisch Weißkirchen in 1898 .

In 1877 he married Rosa Bohutinsky. The marriage had four children.

Hermann Reuss died in Hranice at the age of 83 and was buried in the town cemetery in honorary grave No. 157.

Fonts

• The tree caliper with recorder and counter to facilitate the recording of the stand and to control the posting of timber. H. Reuss jun. Prague 1882
• Damage to the shell by large game, especially in spruce stands. Julius Springer Publishing House, Berlin 1888
• Request and guidance to fight the nun from a purely practical point of view. Hermann Reuss, Fürstlich Colloredo-Mansfeld'scher forester, Moritz Perses publishing house, Vienna 1892
• To illustrate the negative consequences of peeling damage by large game in the spruce stand. On the suggestion of the Special Committee for Forestry and Timber Trade to organize the collective exhibition of Austria in Group IX of the World Exhibition in Paris-Helios, Vienna 1900
• About the detrimental influences of unsanitary and abusive planting methods on the future of the stand with special reference to the spruce. Published by the Special Committee for Forestry and Timber Trade, Vienna 1901
• About the detrimental influences of planting methods that are contrary to nature and abusive to the future of the stand. With special reference to the spruce. Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moravian Silesia. Higher forestry school, Aussee, Eulenberg, Mähr.-Weisskirchen. Mähr.-Schles. Forestry School Association, 1902
• The establishment of forest stands. A teaching and manual for teaching and practice. Edited on the basis of modern times by Hermann Reuss, kk Oberforstrat, director of the higher forestry school Mährisch-Weißkirchen, Julius Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1907 urn : nbn: de: 1111-20120414230
• The forest budget is broken down into its practical individual activities in the field of economy and administration. G. Freytag publishing house, Leipzig, F. Tempsky publishing house, Vienna 1918

literature

• Elly Allesch b. Reuss: On the history of the Reuss family, Goslar 1934 (unpublished)
• Vaclav Bednar: Tourist information about Hranice: Dr. Ing.Hermann Reuss , on mic.hranet.cz, accessed on July 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 125/24