Johann Albrecht von Monroy

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Johann Albrecht von Monroy (1920)

Johann Albrecht von Monroy (born October 23, 1900 in Schwerin , † April 18, 1964 in Eferding ) was a German forester and the first doctor of forest sciences at the Eberswalde Forestry University .

Life

Johann Albrecht von Mornroy came from the Huguenot noble family von Monroy , who came to Mecklenburg via Celle and worked here for generations as foresters and lawyers in the service of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . His father, Carl von Monroy (1846–1924) was the chief forest master . Two of his brothers died in the First World War . After graduating from the Fridericianum Schwerin in 1918, he joined the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Forest Administration. He completed a year of apprenticeship in Gelbensande and then studied forest science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the TH Munich as well as at the Forestry University Eberswalde, today's University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde . In 1920 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg and, like his father before, was a member of the Academic Schützenhaus-Gesellschaft (ASG) in Eberswalde since 1922. In 1923 he was appointed forest trainee. In June 1924 he was the first at the University of Eberswalde a doctorate in forestry science doctorate .

In 1925 he passed the second exam and was appointed forest assessor . In 1926 he received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for a study trip to the USA . He studied at Cornell University , in their Forestry Camp in the Adirondacks and in the Yale Forest School Camp in Urania, Louisiana. He then traveled back through Japan, China and the Soviet Union and also visited forest science and forestry institutions here. Soon after his return he was given leave to work for the German Forest Association in Berlin. This is where the basic work Das Holz, published in 1929, was created . He headed the "Technical Committee" of the German Forest Association as well as its "Foreign Committee".

1930, forester transported, Johann Albrecht von Monroy in 1936 as part of the DC circuit over the forestry association in the realm forest service and in 1937 was promoted to chief forester. Early on he dealt with new uses for firewood ( wood gas , charcoal , wood firing, wood roads). In 1936 and 1937 he headed the “Forestry Raw Material Management” department in the Office for German Raw Materials and from 1934 to 1938 he was a lecturer for Forestry raw materials management and wood industry at the TU Berlin . In 1937 he was one of the co-founders of the journal Holz als Roh- und Material (today the European journal of wood and wood products ), in which numerous articles by him appeared. In the fall of 1938 he was able to undertake a second study and lecture tour through the USA and also visited Canada and Mexico .

In October 1939 he was dismissed from civil service at his own request. During the following war years, according to his obituary, he devoted himself to the development and management of wood industry companies in Southeastern Europe with industrial forests .

At the end of the war in 1945, Johann Albrecht von Monroy was in Austria , where he stayed and initially worked in various areas of the wood industry. From 1950 he worked as an expert in forestry and timber management for the FAO, the food and agriculture organization of the United Nations . He advised governments and industry in Burma (1956), Pakistan (1951/53), Vietnam (1953, 1955, 1956), Indonesia (1954 to 1958), India (1959/60) and most recently Turkey (1961 to 1963) and drafted development plans and country reports for the FAO. His approach, outdated today, aimed at industrializing forest areas.

Johann Albrecht von Monroy died unexpectedly on home leave.

Works

  • Economic management in forestry. Berlin: VDJ-Verlag 1925
  • (Ed.) Wood: Common description of its production, extraction and use. Edited on behalf of the Association of German Engineers in association with the German Forest Association, Berlin: VDI-Verlag 1929
  • Development of wood consumption in different countries. [sl]: [sn] (Printed by: Berlin: Neudt. Verl. and Treuhand-Ges.) 1933
  • The economic aspects of world forestry. Kiel: Institute for the World Economy 1960 (Kiel lectures; NF 16)

literature

Franz Kollmann: Dr. Johann Albrecht von Monroy † In: Wood as Raw and Material 22 (1964), Heft 8, p. 314

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68/870.
  2. ↑ See the report in Cornell Forester , 6 (1926), p. 12
  3. ↑ That is the title of a lecture, see Centralblatt für das alles Forstwesen 60 (1934), p. 287
  4. ↑ ISSN  0018-3768
  5. ↑ Kollmann (lit.)
  6. ↑ See as an example for Indonesia Rita Lindayati: Shaping Local Forest Tenure in National Politics. In: Nives Dolésak, Elinor Ostrom (eds.): The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptation. Boston: MIT 2003, pp. 221–264, here 234
personal data
SURNAME Monroy, Johann Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1964
Place of death Eferding