Horst Kramer
Horst Kramer (born June 11, 1924 in Eberswalde ; † October 18, 2015 in Göttingen ) was a German forest scientist . He wrote several standard works on forest management and forest growth . With Alparslan Akça he wrote the textbook Guide to Forest Metrology . He developed a dendrometer that enables rapid measurements in the forest .
Life
The son of the chief forest master and elk hunter Hans Kramer grew up in the East Prussian forestry office in Elchwald . Horst Kramer attended the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg . Immediately after graduating from high school, he was drafted into the 61st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) , and in 1945 he was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets , from which he was only released in 1950.
He studied forestry science at that time still in Munden Hannoversch settled Forestry Faculty of the Georg-August-University of Goettingen and at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg . While still as a trainee lawyer in the forest administration of Lower Saxony , he received his dissertation in 1957 with the dissertation of path width and growth in the adjacent stock with Reinhard Schober in Hann. Münden to Dr. forest. PhD . Even then he had to forest management and biometrics specialized. After the Great State Forest Examination , Kramer worked at the Lower Saxony State Forestry Administration as an assistant in the department for silviculture and forest management.
He completed an assistantship at the forestry faculty in Hann. Münden and completed his habilitation there in 1962 for the subjects of forestry yield science and holm science. In 1965 Horst Kramer took over the management of the Hardegsen Forestry Office . Just two years later, in 1967, he was appointed adjunct professor at the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen. In 1974 he succeeded Reinhard Schober as director of the Institute for Forest Management and Earnings Science (today: Department for Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing) at the University of Göttingen and appointed full professor to the associated chair . He held both functions until his retirement on October 1, 1989.
Horst Kramer lived with his wife in Göttingen-Herberhausen.
Work and honors
In his scientific research and as a forestry practitioner, Horst Kramer has dealt intensively with the establishment, maintenance and growth of spruce stands and the maintenance of young stands . Further focal points of his scientific work were the recording of the biomass and the biomass production of forest stands, the development of optimal methods for stand treatment as well as solutions for yield-related problems in connection with the so-called " forest dieback ".
Since the 1960s , he has consistently pointed out the importance of forest management for forest management and silvicultural decisions and has been a major contributor to forest management , especially in the state of Lower Saxony . He wrote the standard works Terms of Forest Management (1976) and Land Use Planning in Forest Management (1982). Through these books and numerous specialist articles, he gave important impulses for the further development of forest management into an indispensable inventory, controlling and planning instrument in forestry . Together with Alparslan Akça, he wrote the guide for dendrometry and stock inventory (1982; later under the title Guide to Forest Measurement ), an important textbook for university education, but also for forestry practice. For this he developed the so-called dendrometer from Kramer, a simple but very versatile small device, in a leading role at the Institute for Forest Management and Yield Science. It can be used without great effort in the forest to measure the height of trees, determine the base area, as well as to calculate the mass fraction and to determine the stand mass.
In 1988 Horst Kramer published the standard work Waldwachstumslehre together with Hans Achim Gussone and Reinhard Schober . Ecological and anthropogenic influences on the growth of the forest, its mass and value performance and the security of the stand , which can be regarded as its main work. Most of Kramer's books were published by the specialist publisher JD Sauerländer in Frankfurt am Main. In addition, he published well over 150 papers in international forestry and scientific journals .
Kramer worked as a teacher and researcher at home and abroad, was head of an IUFRO project group and a member of the Académie royale de l'agriculture et de la sylviculture de Suède . With his numerous trips abroad he intensified the cooperative research. A three-month research stay in Great Britain in 1964 produced highly acclaimed results, for which Kramer received the annual prize of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain in 1967. He also campaigned for the establishment and development of the Forestry Faculty in Linares , Mexico , which is affiliated with the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) in Monterrey . For this and for his other academic merits, the UANL awarded him the University's Silver Medal of Honor in 1990 and an honorary doctorate in forest sciences in 1996 (Doctor en Ciencias Forestales honoris causa).
Fonts (selection)
- Path width and increase in the adjacent stock , dissertation, Hann. Münden 1956
- The influence of large-scale climate and location on the development of forest stands using the example of long-term experimental areas of Douglas fir, spruce, beech and oak , series of publications by the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 31/32), Frankfurt am Main 1963
- Terms of forest management, series of publications by the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 48), Frankfurt am Main 1976 (3rd, revised and expanded edition Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-7939-5048-4 )
- together with Niels Bjerg: Biological aspects of young spruce maintenance. Discussion of the Olper spruce thinning experiment, writings from the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 55), Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-7939-5055-7
- together with Hermann Spellmann: Contributions to the establishment of the spruce stand , writings from the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 64), Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-7939-5064-6
- as editor: Biological, technical and economic aspects of young stock maintenance , publications from the forestry faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 67), Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-7939-5067-0
- Land use planning in forest management , Frankfurt am Main 1982 (2nd, revised and expanded edition Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-7939-0770-8 )
- together with Alparslan Akça: Guide for dendrometry and inventory , Frankfurt am Main 1982 (3rd, extended edition under the title Guide to Forest Measurement , Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-7939-0830-5 )
- Growth and treatment of Douglas fir in the Pacific Northwest of America , writings from the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 75), Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-7939-5075-1
- as co-author: Inventory and growth in diseased spruce stands , writings from the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 82), Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-7939-5082-4
- together with Hans Achim Gussone and Reinhard Schober : Waldwachstumslehre. Ecological and anthropogenic influences on the growth of the forest, its mass and value performance and the security of the stand , Hamburg and Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-490-05616-7
- together with Christoph Kätsch: Individual growth of forest trees depending on natural and anthropogenic influences , writings from the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 117), Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7939-5117-0
literature
- H. Kenneweg: Professor Dr. Horst Kramer 60 years . In: General forest and hunting newspaper . 155th year, issue 6/1984, pp. 125–126, ISSN 0002-5852 .
- -ba-: Professor Horst Kramer on his 60th birthday . In: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 39th year, issue 27/1984, p. 701 ISSN 0002-5860 .
- Alparslan Akça: encounter in the forest . In: Forest and Wood . Volume 44, issue 17/1989, inside front cover, ISSN 0932-9315 .
- Hans Achim Gussone : Professor Kramer 70 years . In: Forest and Wood . 49th year, issue 11/1994, p. 309, ISSN 0932-9315 .
- Alparslan Akça: Prof. Horst Kramer 70 years . In: General forest and hunting newspaper . 165th year, issue 7/1994, p. 136, ISSN 0002-5852 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Kramer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: Path width and increase in the adjacent stock
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kramer, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forest scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eberswalde |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 2015 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |