Karl Hasel

Karl Hasel (born January 25, 1909 in Karlsruhe , † February 20, 2001 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German forest scientist .

He emerged primarily with works on forest history and was one of the most outstanding forest historians of the 20th century. His forest history first published in 1985 . A plan for study and practice is the standard work for university teaching in this subject.

Live and act

Karl Hasel was born in 1909 as the only child of the later Finance Councilor Karl Hasel in Karlsruhe, where he grew up and passed the high school diploma at the Humanist High School. Accepted as a candidate for the higher Baden forestry service, he then studied forest science at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . His teachers included Hans Hausrath , Max Endres , Christoph Wagner , Heinrich Weber , Ludwig Fabricius and Victor Dieterich . After graduating in 1931 and completing his preparatory service within the Baden Forest Administration, he passed the Great State Forest Examination in 1935 and was then a forest assessor. In the same year he also got married.

Hasel began his professional career within the forest administration in the forest offices of Forbach II , Herrenwies and Karlsruhe-Durlach , where he worked until the beginning of the Second World War in 1939. Already drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the war - and appointed forester during this time - he was released from military service in 1940 and transferred to the forestry department of the Baden Ministry of Finance and Economics in his home town of Karlsruhe. From 1942 Hasel worked in the local forest and timber management office as a transport officer. At the same time, however, his desire for scientific work did not rest. He received his doctorate in 1942 with his teacher Hans household goods at the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg with the forestry historical investigation The emergence and development of Holzhauersiedelungen Herrenwies and dog creek in the northern Black Forest to Dr. rer. nat.

After the end of the war in 1945, Karl Hasel took over the management of the Zell am Harmersbach Forestry Office until he moved to the then regional forest administration in Freiburg in the spring of 1952. There he worked as a consultant for forest policy and in the following year also took over the department for human resources for the higher service at the now Forest Directorate South Baden. A short time later Hasel was appointed to the Oberforstrat .

In parallel to his work in forestry practice and administration, he also pursued his scientific career. In 1953 he completed his habilitation at the Institute for Forest Policy of the Freiburg Faculty with the writing Changes in the forest supervision of private forests in Baden . In the same year he took over the lectures as a lecturer until August 1, 1954, until Kurt Mantel was appointed to the Freiburg forest policy chair from the Georg-August University in Göttingen . However, Karl Hasel continued to give regular lectures on forest management and an introduction to forest science. In 1959 he was appointed an adjunct professor.

After the sudden accidental death of Arnold Freiherr von Vietinghoff-Riesch in 1962, Hasel was appointed director of the Institute for Forest Policy, Forest History and Nature Conservation of the Forest Science Faculty of the University of Göttingen in Hann. Münden and appointed to the associated chair that he held until his retirement . In 1967 he was dean of the faculty. 1968, for the 100th anniversary of the forestry apprenticeship in Hann. Münden - the forestry faculty only moved to Göttingen in 1970 - he compiled the sources on the history of the forestry faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and also gave the celebratory speech at the anniversary ceremony. In addition, he was head of the legal and forest policy committee of the German Forestry Council .

His around 200 publications in the fields of forest history, forest policy , forest law , forest management and land maintenance have also received great attention beyond forest science. Hasel dealt in particular with the forest history of his homeland Baden-Württemberg and its predecessor countries, Baden and Württemberg , for which he presented several comprehensive studies. The time frame was very stretched: Hasel evaluated both servant files from the 18th century and the résumés of forest officials during the time of the “ Third Reich ”. He also justified the representation of the forest law in Baden-Württemberg .

The textbooks Forest Management and Environment can be his main works . An introduction to the forest policy problems of industrial society (1971) and the forest history written as emeritus . Ein Grundriß für Studium und Praxis (1985) apply, which were trend-setting for the subject areas. As before, which is forest history the standard work for university education in this subject. In 2002 an expanded and updated edition was published by Ekkehard Schwartz , incorporating the forest-historical development in the former GDR . Hasel himself suggested this addition.

In addition, Hasel published the life story of Georg Ludwig Hartig and a collection of essays by Victor Dieterich in 1976 and wrote studies on Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil , which were published in book form in 1982. Not least for this, but also for his other life's work, Hasel was awarded the Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil Prize on October 19, 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau . In addition, he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his versatile commitment and work .

Karl Hasel died on February 20, 2001 at the age of 92 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Fonts

Own books

• The origin and development of the Holzhauer settlements in Herrenwies and Hundsbach in the northern Black Forest , dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1942
• Herrenwies and Hundsbach. A contribution to the forestry development of the northern Black Forest , research on German regional studies, Volume 45, Leipzig 1944 (reprint 1984)
• Changes in forest supervision over private forests in Baden , habilitation thesis, Karlsruhe and Freiburg im Breisgau 1953
• Sheets on professional studies. Volume 3: Professions for high school graduates - forestry graduate. Bielefeld 1956. 5th edition 1971.
• with Kurt Mantel : Studies on forest legislation in the former states of Baden and Wuerttemberg , series of publications by the State Forestry Administration of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Volume 5, Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1960
• The Real Estate Act of July 28, 1961. An introduction , Wiesbaden-Dotzheim 1962
• Forestry associations in the Federal Republic of Germany , publications of the German Forestry Council eV, Rheinbach near Bonn 1968
• Sources on the history of the forestry faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , Göttingen 1968
• Forestry and the Environment. An introduction to the forest policy problems of industrial society , Hamburg and Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-490-03416-3
• On the history of forest legislation in Prussia , series of publications by the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 47, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-7939-0310-9
• Effects of the revolution of 1848 and 1849 on forest and hunting, on forest administration and forest officials, especially in Baden , series of publications by the Landesforstverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, Volume 50, Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1977
• together with Rolf Zundel : Forest legislation in the Federal Republic of Germany. Overview after completion of the amendments (1980) , Forest Science Research, Issue 37 / Münchener Universitäts-Schriften, Hamburg and Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-490-23716-1
• Studies on Wilhelm Pfeil , Aus dem Walde, Heft 36, Hannover 1982
• Forest history. A plan for study and practice , Parey's study texts, No. 48, Hamburg and Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-03316-7 (2nd and 3rd edition, extended and updated edition by Ekkehard Schwartz , Remagen 2002 and 2006, ISBN 3- 935638-26-4 )
• Forest officials in the Nazi state using the example of the former state of Baden , in: Series of publications by the Landesforstverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, Volume 62, Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1985
• Small contributions to the history of forest, especially in Baden , series of publications of the Landesforstverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, Volume 67, Stuttgart 1989
• From old servant files - Baden district forester between 1780 and 1880 , series of publications by the Baden-Württemberg State Forest Administration, Volume 76, Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1994

As editor

• together with Wilhelm Mantel : Georg Ludwig Hartig with his family. Brief life and family history of the State Councilor and Chief Forester Georg Ludwig Hartig; written by his wife Theodora Hartig, 1826 , Göttingen 1976
• Victor Dieterich : Collected essays, especially on forestry economics , series of publications by the Baden-Württemberg State Forestry Administration, Volume 46, Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1976
• Hellmut Gnändinger: Chronicle of a Captivity of War (1944–1954) , Göttingen 1980

literature

• NN: Professor Dr. Hazel 60 years. In: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift. (AFZ), Volume 24, Issue 4/1969, p. 55, ISSN  0002-5860 .
• Author collective: Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil Prize 1983. To Professor Dr. Karl Hasel, Freiburg im Breisgau, and the Pfeil travel grant to (...) on October 19, 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau. Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil Prize 1983.
• Max Krott : Professor Karl Hasel died. In: Forest and Wood. 56th year, issue 7, 2001, ISSN  0932-9315 , pp. 261-262.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Hasel in the catalog of the German National Library