Konrad Rubner

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Konrad Rubner

Konrad Rubner (born March 9, 1886 in Nuremberg , † October 20, 1974 in Regensburg ) was a German forest scientist.

Life

Rubner grew up in Regensburg and studied at the Forest Institute of Aschaffenburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich forest science . From 1904 he was a member of the Corps Hercynia in the Aschaffenburg Seniors' Convent . In 1909 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . During the First World War he was first used as a lieutenant in the reserve on the Western Front. After illness, he served from October 1916 to December 1918 as an adjutant in the military forest management in Bialowies . In 1924 he completed his habilitation at the State Science Faculty of the LMU. After four years as a private lecturer and head of the Grafrath teaching area , he followed the call of the Tharandt Forest Academy in 1928 to the chair of silviculture and forest use. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

In 1945 he returned to Bavaria . He headed the Mindelheim forestry office and became a personnel officer, then head of the Swabian government forestry office in Augsburg . From 1948 to 1952 he was a consultant for silviculture and forest management at the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests . Here he made particular contributions to the reforestation of the bald areas that were created in the Second World War and in the post-war period . He then headed for some years, the Department of Forestry Vegetation Science of the Forest Research Institute in Munich . He was the first to recognize the importance of this subject and took it into account by founding the inter-European working group for forest vegetation science in 1929.

After his retirement he was again a member of the political science faculty. After the death of his wife Anna in 1970 he moved to Regensburg, where his son Heinrich Rubner had become a professor at the university.

Works

  • The Bavarian types, bastards and forms of epilobia. 1909.
  • The starvation of the cambium and the exposure of the tree rings. Ungeheuer & Ulmer, 1910.
  • The movement of wood prices in Germany from the beginning of the world wood trade to the world war. 1920.
  • The silviculture technology of the greatest value. (Volume 1 by Heske / Rubner), 1936.
  • The goals of Central European forestry . Acta forestalia Fennica 1926.
  • with Georgij F. Morosow, Selma Ruoff and Hans Ruoff : The doctrine of the forest . Radebeul 1928.
  • Increase in paper wood production in Germany through silvicultural measures. Biberach an der Riss 1931.
  • with Fritz Reinhold: The plant-geographical basics of silviculture. 5th edition. Radebeul 1960.
  • The original area of ​​the spruce in Europe. 1932.
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the spruce shapes and races. 1936.
  • The area of ​​the Sudeten larch . Tharandt 1943.
  • Neudammer forest textbook. A manual for teaching and practice. Volume 1, Radebeul 1942.
  • Neudammer forest textbook. Volume 2, Melsungen
  • The forest associations in Bavaria. With instructions for carrying out plant sociological studies in the forest. Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munich 1949.
  • with Fritz Reinhold: Europe's natural forest image. 1934, 1953.
  • The reforestation in Bavaria from 1948 to 1954 . Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munich 1954.
  • with Franz Heske: The stock economy. Volume 1. Radebeul 1936.
  • The forestry conditions in the Federal Republic . Stuttgart 1957.
  • The geographical basics of silviculture. Radebeul 1960.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register of the faculty of the TU Dresden, entry Prof. Dr. oec. publ. Dr. hc Konrad Rubner
  2. a b Rubner (1994)
  3. Some sources incorrectly state Munich as the place of death.
  4. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 107/485.
  5. Dissertation: The starvation of the cambium and the exposure of the tree rings .
  6. ^ Ernst Weber: History of the Corps Hercynia Aschaffenburg-Munich 1847-1927 . Munich 1927, p. 184.
  7. a b W. Klöck (2004)
  8. Obituary (SpringerLink)