Chief Forester

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Head forester used to be a common official title for a forester . Depending on the respective forest administration , it was awarded to different offices throughout history .

Germany

Head forester, forester or riding forester were in the Kingdom of Hanover z. B. Designations for the heads of a forest office . They gradually appeared in the 16th century. This happened with the training of a sovereign forest organization and an at least pro-rata remuneration of forest employees. All of these titles mostly meant forest people in leading positions, comparable to today's higher service within the administration.

At the turn of the 20th century, the former chief forester in Prussia and a few other German states were appointed forest masters without, however, changing their activities. Previously, "forester" was the title for an inspection officer with mostly great influence on the respective local administration.

After the Second World War were called in some states , the head of the forestry offices forester , the official names of the transport offices in the high and highest state authorities were forester , land forester and Oberland forester .

The use of the terms in forestry practice is rather unusual today. Karl Hasel and Ekkehard Schwartz write: "The typical forestry service designations (district forester, head forester, forester, etc.) have largely been eliminated and adapted to those of other administrations."

The official names of officials in the raceways of the agricultural, forestry and nutritional science and veterinary service of the federal division in federal forestry the Institute for Federal Real Estate not include the term forester. In the middle service there is the official title of "Forstobersekretär", in the higher service "Forest Inspector" and in the higher service "Forstoberrat".

Historically important representatives

Forest Corps

Many forest officials came and still come from the student forest connections , especially from the corps in Aschaffenburg and Tharandt:

GDR

A hierarchical rank system existed in the forestry of the GDR until 1991 , but in practice it has been very relaxed in recent decades.

On the one hand, head forester was the name of the person who ran a head forester's office , i.e. a forest district with an average of seven districts . On the other hand, chief forester was also a rank . Some older district forester also held the rank of chief forester , while some heads of a chief forester held the rank of forester. No rank designations were used in the personal address.

  • Chief forester in the GDR in 1983.

  • Shoulder piece of the rank of "chief forester" in the GDR

Lithuania

"Chief forester" (lit. miškų urėdas ) refers to the head of a state forest enterprise in Lithuania . In the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic there was the Forestry Enterprise Director ( miškų ūkio direktorius ), who was appointed and discharged by the Minister in the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Lithuania . The district forester ( girininkas ) and the administrative apparatus of the chief forester report to the chief forester. The chief forester is appointed and relieved by the general forest manager at the Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Lithuania .

literature

  • Brandenburg Ministry for Food, Agriculture a. Forsten (ed.): In responsibility for the forest - The history of forestry in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR. Potsdam 1998, p. 516.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Hasel , Ekkehard Schwartz : Forest history. A floor plan for study and practice. Kessel, Remagen 2002, ISBN 3-935638-26-4 , p. 192.
  2. ^ Website of the General Forestry Office of Lithuania