Klaus Gundelach

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Klaus Gundelach (born April 18, 1905 in Berlin , † August 29, 1989 in Osterby ) was a German editor , publishing director and conservationist .

life and work

Klaus Gundelach grew up in the Tempelhof estate. After attending the humanistic grammar school in Berlin, he worked from 1926 to 1933 as an editor of a Berlin daily newspaper and later from 1933 to 1938 as a publishing director in Rostock . Then he retired as a "writing farmer" to a farm in Mecklenburg .

During World War II he was a war correspondent and was wounded several times. Towards the end of the war, he escaped from the Russians. He reported on his escape in his book Der Treck ins Grüne Land . After the war he lived in Schleswig-Holstein and worked there in 1948 as a foreman in reforestation measures and became a co-founder of the German Forest Protection Association (SDW), of which he was managing director in the Schleswig-Holstein regional association for 30 years. From 1952 he published the series “Waldjugenddienst”, an educational quarterly magazine for schools and youth leaders.

In 1957 he co-founded the German Forest Youth (DWJ) as a youth organization of the German Forest Protection Association. He always remained closely connected to her. In 1975 the Federal Association of SDW founded the Klaus Gundelach Prize , which is awarded annually by the SDW Presidium to individuals or groups for outstanding achievements in and for the German Forest Youth. His merits were recognized with the Schleswig-Holstein Medal (1978) and the Federal Cross of Merit . The Klaus Gundelach Fund , the sponsoring association of the German Forest Youth, was named after him.

Klaus Gundelach died in 1989 at the age of 84 and was buried in the cemetery in Hütten .

Fonts

  • The boys from Habichtswald. Rheinhausen publishing house, Rheinhausen 1950.
  • (Ed.): Comrade horse. A book by Ross and Reiter. Safari, Berlin 1951.
  • Wolves in the forest. Bären, Düsseldorf 1955 (new edition: Deutsche Waldjugend (DWJ), Hemer 1987).
  • Faithful Harras. Bären, Düsseldorf 1956 (new edition: DWJ, Hemer 1990).
  • The trek into the green land. Saddle stories. Broschat, Hohenwestedt 1983, ISBN 3-924256-02-0 .
  • And I ride happily far away ... saddle stories. Broschat, Hohenwestedt 1985, ISBN 3-924256-05-5 .

literature

The history of the German Forest Youth in 2 volumes:

  • Wolfgang Hegemeister : ... and that is forest youth? Fang 59, Hemer, 1997.
  • Wolfgang Hegemeister: ... that is the forest youth. Fang 61, Hemer, 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ... this is the forest youth, page 49 f.
personal data
SURNAME Gundelach, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, publishing director and nature conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1989
Place of death Osterby