Hubert Weber (conservationist)

Hubert Weber (born January 30, 1917 in Halbseit near Hannsdorf ; † May 20, 1997 in Calbe ) was a German forester and conservationist .

Life

Hubert Weber came from the Sudetenland , which in 1917 still belonged to Austria-Hungary. Even as a high school graduate, he was interested in ornithology . In Eger he attended the forest vocational school. After the occupation of the Sudetenland, he came to Neustrelitz. He was wounded in Poland on the first day of World War II . After a stay in the hospital, he trained as a forest ranger in Templin .

After the end of the world war he finally moved to Germany. For many years he worked as a committed but also contentious director of the Serrahn nature reserve . He maintained numerous contacts with prominent scientists and GDR politicians, but also used them again and again for the goals of nature conservation.

After the bark beetle - calamity in 1947 in Thuringia Weber was given the task, "an example area of biological pest control to build with the help of songbirds." As a result, the area has been upgraded several times and designated a nature reserve . By 1977 the area in today's Müritz National Park was expanded to 1,817 hectares at Weber's instigation .

Hubert Weber published several articles on his observations on crossbills and pied flycatchers as well as on old historical bird trapping methods in the German journal for ornithology . He was criticized for this, but in 1973 Weber was awarded the GDR Medal of Merit.

literature

• Klaus Borrmann & Employees: Life and Era of Hubert Weber . In this: Feldberg-Serrahner Naturparkgeschichte (s) . Forest Museum "Lütt Holthus", Lüttenhagen 2009, ISBN 3-929192-23-3 , pp. 226-230

Web links

• Hubert Weber HP of NABU Mecklenburg Strelitz - History
• Hubert Weber and the Serrahn Biological Station