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Huldreich Matthes (born October 12, 1850 in Bürgel ; † May 12, 1926 in Eisenach ) was a German forester and university professor .

Life

Huldreich Matthes was born on October 12, 1850 in Bürgel, East Thuringia. He attended secondary school 1st order in Weimar and chose the profession of forester. His first job was in the Stadtroda district .

On the recommendation of his superiors, Matthes attended the Grand Ducal Saxon Forestry School in Eisenach from 1868 to 1870 . He was accepted into the forest service of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1870. From 1874 to 1875, Matthes was given the opportunity to perfect his knowledge by completing additional studies at the University of Gießen , where he also became an assistant in the forest institute. During his studies he became a member of the Frankonia Gießen fraternity in 1874 .

After completing his studies, Matthes was assigned tasks in the Frauenseer Forst , Tiefenort Revier. In 1879 he became a member of the Grand Ducal Forest Taxation Commission and in 1882 a lecturer at the Grand Ducal Saxon Forest Academy in Eisenach. Matthes received his appointment to the forestry council in 1896. The University of Jena awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1905 . As the successor to the retired director Hermann Stoetzer , Matthes became director of the Eisenach Forest Academy in 1910 and, promoted to Oberlandforstrat , remained its director until the university was dissolved in 1915.

Huldreich Matthes made contact with the Dresden garden and landscape architect Max Bertram while teaching in Eisenach. Both developed a concept for the Eisenach city administration for the use of the drift and fallow land on the Pflugensberg as a city park. The reforestation of the steep slopes along the Eichrodter Weg and at the Riesengraben was also carried out by his forest eleven.

After his retirement, Huldreich Matthes took on a number of honorary posts in the Wartburg city and appeared as a member of the state parliament; he died in Eisenach in 1926.

literature

  • Obituary in the Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung, Vol. 1927, p. 387
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 56-57.
  • Bernd Mähler Heinrich Weigel Gardens, parks and park-like valleys and forest areas in the Eisenach district . Eisenach writings on local history Eisenach, 1985
  • Ekkehard Schwartz : Gottlob König 1779–1849. A life for forest and landscape (series of portraits of important Thuringian forest people ). Kleinhampl, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-933956-02-1
  • Helmut Witticke, Martin Heinze: Forest training in Thuringia. Schwarzburg 1946-2008 . EchinoMedia Verlag, Bürgel 2009, ISBN 978-3-937107-18-9 , p. 192 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Heinrich Weigel: A monument set with the city park . Last director of the Eisenach forestry school. In: Mitteldeutsche Allgemeine (local edition Eisenach) . Kassel November 11, 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Matthes, Huldreich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Bürgel
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1926
Place of death Eisenach