Hermann Schurhammer

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Hermann Schurhammer (born March 16, 1881 in Glottertal ; † December 15, 1952 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German engineer, building officer and state commissioner for nature conservation .

Life

A few years after his birth, his father took over a wine shop in Durlach . Here he attended school and then studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. As an engineering intern, he entered the state service of the Grand Ducal Baden in 1906. After various activities in the water and road construction administration, he was appointed government builder . As such, he worked in various cultural building authorities and in the construction of the Murg power plant in Forbach . He then became a board member of the Bonndorf building authority in the Black Forest . Here he got married.

As a nature lover with botanical knowledge, it was his endeavor to adapt the roads to the landscape, which he also succeeded in doing excellently. With the wonderful Wutach Gorge in front of his eyes and with the power of conviction, he succeeded in entering the Gauchach and Wutach Gorge in the Reich Nature Conservation Book. With the Reich Nature Conservation Act of June 26, 1935, a legal basis for nature conservation was created. He was appointed managing director and nature conservation officer of the state of Baden in Karlsruhe. With the course of the Second World War there was a new activity in Colmar . His photo and book collection grew considerably here, but he had to leave Colmar again due to the war. The library stayed behind. Back in Bonndorf he devoted himself entirely to nature conservation; He worked tirelessly and across borders for the preservation of the river landscape near Rheinau and the Rhine Falls . He was a member of the Black Forest Association and the Baden State Association for Natural History and Conservation.

He could not denounce the planned water drainage of the Wutach enough and convincingly prevent it thanks to many photo presentations. He is the founder of the nature reserve Gauchach and Wutach Gorge, which nature lovers and scientists are enthusiastic about and which is more important than ever today. During a lecture in the icy winter of 1952, which he wanted to give despite suffering from illness, he could no longer; he died in the hospital in Freiburg. He was buried in Bonndorf.

Hermann Schurhammer was married and had three daughters and two sons.

Honors

literature

  • Erich Oberdorfer : Hermann Schurhammer †. In: Communications of the Baden State Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation NF 6 1953-1956: p. 48-51. Freiburg. Full text (PDF; 63.0 MB)
  • Karl Asal , Hermann Schurhammer , In: Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Schaffhausen , Volume XXV., 1952/53
  • Horst Mühleisen: Schurhammer, Hermann - senior government councilor, conservationist. In: Baden-Württemberg biographies. - 2. 1999. pp. 424-426
  • Friedbert Zapf, 70 years of the Wutach Gorge nature reserve: Hermann Schurhammer, "Alemannic thick skull" and "father of the reserve" . In: The Black Forest. 2009, H 3. S. 14–16 full text (PDF; 3.0 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Asal, Hermann Schurhammer , In: Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Schaffhausen , Volume XXV., 1952/53, pp. 410–416
personal data
SURNAME Schurhammer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, building officer and nature conservation officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Glottertal
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1952
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau