Karl-Reinhard Volz

Karl-Reinhard Volz (born January 10, 1947 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German forestry practitioner and forest scientist .

Live and act

Karl-Reinhard Volz attended the Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Baden-Baden , where he passed the Abitur in 1966. Immediately thereafter, he began studying forest science at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau, which he successfully completed in November 1970 with the diploma examination. He then worked as a research assistant at the Wilhelm Klauditz Institute for Wood Research at the TU Braunschweig until August 1973 , but then returned to Baden-Württemberg to complete his forestry traineeship within the regional forest administration there , which he did in May 1975 with the big one Forest State Examination (Staatsexamen) completed. Parallel to his clerkship put Volz also complete his scientific education and was at the Forest Faculty of the in January 1975 Georg-August University of Göttingen for Doctor of Forestry (forest Dr.) PhD. To this end, he used the study, which was started at the Wilhelm Klauditz Institute and published in 1974, on the properties of the bark of spruce , pine and beech and its suitability as a raw material for flat pressed panels .

After joining the state forest administration, Volz was initially deputy head of the Radolfzell Forestry Office on Lake Constance from 1975 to 1976 and then moved to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart , where he worked as a consultant in the forest policy department until 1981 . From 1981 to 1984 he headed the Comburg State Forestry Office in Schwäbisch Hall , but was then appointed to the Stuttgart Forestry Directorate, where he was Chief Forestry Director of the Personnel and Organization Department until August 1990.

After he became familiar with the writing The state forest purchase policy as part of forest policy. A study using the example of the Baden-Württemberg state forest administration in January 1990 at the forest science faculty of the University of Munich had completed his habilitation (Dr. rer. Silv. Habil.), Volz finally decided to work entirely scientifically and in the same year took Richard Plochmann's successor the call as full professor and holder of the chair for forest policy and forest history of the forest science faculty of the University of Munich, which he held until March 1994.

In the 1994 summer semester, Volz accepted a call to the University of Freiburg , where he was full professor and director of the Institute for Forest Policy (later renamed Institute for Forest and Environmental Policy ) of the Forest Science Faculty until 2014 . From 1995 to 1999 he was dean of the faculty's studies and in 2002/03, after it was renamed the Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences (today Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources), also its dean . From 2003 to 2008 Volz was Vice Rector for Student Affairs and Studies at the University of Freiburg. In 2005, after he was also responsible for the University of Freiburg's participation in the federal and state excellence initiative , Volz was appointed full-time Vice Rector in 2006, for the first time in Baden-Württemberg. In 2014 he retired.

In addition to a number of independent publications, Volz regularly wrote articles for forestry and other specialist journals , as well as for the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) . From 1999 to 2016 Volz was editor of the traditional forestry journal Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung . He was also chairman of the board of trustees for the Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil Prize awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS until 2006 and chairman of the board of trustees for the CULTURA Prize for sustainable land use by the same foundation from 2007 to 2014. In 2011 Volz took over the chairmanship of the Scientific Society Freiburg i.Br., which he still holds today. Since 2014, Volz has also been Chairman of the University Council of the University of Music in Freiburg.

Scientific fields of work

In his research projects on national and international questions of forest policy, Volz has repeatedly dealt with regulatory policy in forestry , forest ownership policy and small private forests , the concept of forest sustainability and the tension between forestry and nature conservation and thus - often intentionally - provoked various discussions.

This is how the report commissioned by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation solved nature conservation and forestry. The catalog of criteria for “good professional practice” , which Volz presented together with the qualified forester Georg Winkel in 2003, resulted in an ongoing expert dispute. The report was intended to determine the minimum criteria for nature conservation in order to concretise the indefinite legal concept of the so-called “good professional practice in forestry” (GfP), the design of which a forest and nature conservation policy discussion had flared up after the amendment of the Federal Nature Conservation Act . The expert opinion prepared by Volz and Winkel was intended to prepare the planned amendment of the Federal Forest Act . However, both the Working Group of German Forest Owners' Associations , the German Forestry Council , the German Forestry Association and the Working Group on Natural Forest Management (ANW) initially refused to discuss the content of the report until an analysis of the economic effects of the proposals made therein was available. This was then drawn up by the Federal Research Institute for Forestry and Wood Management (BFH). In the course of the broad social discussion that continued through 2003, there was also a specialist conference on this topic, until the mood gradually calmed down. After the early elections in 2005, the amendment to the Federal Forest Act was no longer pursued.

Fonts (selection)

• Investigation of the percentage by weight of the bark of industrial pine wood , communications from the Baden-Württemberg Forest Research and Laboratory (Issue 21) / Forestry Department (No. 18), Freiburg im Breisgau 1970
• Investigation of the properties of the bark of spruce, pine and beech and their suitability as a raw material for flat pressed panels , WKI report (No. 3), Braunschweig 1974, also dissertation, Göttingen 1975
• The state forest purchase policy as part of forest policy. A study using the example of the State Forestry Administration of Baden-Württemberg , Forest Research Reports Munich (No. 108), also habilitation thesis, Munich 1990
• as co-author: Promotion of first afforestation in the new federal states. Situation analysis and suggestions. Benefit-cost study to promote first afforestation, situation analysis and suggestions for first afforestation in the new federal states , Bonn 1991
• with N. Weber (Ed.): Afforestation of agricultural land. Proceedings of a workshop in the Community Program of Research and Technological Development in the Field of competitiveness of Agriculture and Management of Agricultural Resources (1989–93), held in Brussels (Belgium) on 12 and 13 December 1991 , Luxemburg 1993 ( ISBN 92- 826-6298-5 )
• with Georg Winkel: nature conservation and forestry. Catalog of criteria for "good professional practice". Results from the R&D project 80084001 of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation , Applied Landscape Ecology (Issue 52), Münster 2003 ( ISBN 3-7843-3725-2 )
• with Ulrich Schraml (ed.): Urban forest owners. Studies on advice and support in non-rural small private forests , Freiburg writings on forest and environmental policy (Volume 1), Remagen-Oberwinter 2003, ISBN 3-935638-27-2

literature

• Karl-Reinhard Volz , in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . 19th edition. Volume III: Schr - ZKG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 3534
• University of Munich: Professor Volz successor to R. Plochmann , in: Forst und Holz , Volume 45, Issue 24, 1990, p. ISSN  0932-9315
• Prof. Dr. Karl-Reinhard Volz new chair for forest policy at the University of Freiburg i. Br. In: Holz-Zentralblatt , Volume 120, No. 64, 1994, p. 1072 and 1074, ISSN  0018-3792

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl-Reinhard Volz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae with photo and list of publications on the website of the Institute for Forest and Environmental Policy at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ u. a. Anonymous: The dispute over “good professional practice” continues , in: Hessischer Waldbesitzerverband , 51st year, issue 3–4 / 2003. P. 33