Lorenz Wappes

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Lorenz Wappes (born January 13, 1860 in Limbach , † April 10, 1952 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German forest scientist and Bavarian-Palatinate civil servant.

Life

Bavarian Forestry School in Aschaffenburg (1854)

Wappes came from a forester's house in Limbach and attended the Johann-Philipp-von-Schönborn-Gymnasium (Münnerstadt) and the Celtis-Gymnasium in Schweinfurt . After graduating from high school, he studied forest science at the Royal Bavarian Forestry School in Aschaffenburg from autumn 1878 . In the same year he became a member of the Corps Arminia in the Aschaffenburg Senior Citizens' Convention . In 1880 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1882 he did the preparatory service in his native Lower Franconia . In 1885 he passed the Bavarian state bankruptcy as the best of 29 participants. Until 1889 he was a forestry assistant at the Elmstein -Nord and Bergzabern forestry office . Then he was a research assistant at the Aschaffenburg Forestry School. 1893 doctorate he in Munich to Dr oec. publ. In the same year he came back to the Bavarian Palatinate as a forestry assessor in Trippstadt .

Skipping the term of office as forester and head of a forest office , he was transferred to the ministerial forestry department in the State Ministry of Finance in Munich in the summer of 1897. As a forest management consultant, he was appointed forest council in 1902 . He was promoted to government director on October 1, 1909 and was transferred to the Rhine District for the third time , to the Chamber of Forests of the government of the Bavarian Palatinate.

Appointed to the Privy Council, he was given a leave of absence to Berlin in early 1917 . There he was supposed to set up and manage the office for wartime forestry matters. In the turmoil of the revolutionary year 1919, he headed the government of the Palatinate from May 31 to June 5, because the incumbent district president Theodor von Winterstein had to leave the autonomous Palatinate . At the end of 1921 Wappes was entrusted with the management of the business of the Bavarian State Commissioner for the Palatinate. He retired as Ministerial Director on January 16, 1925 . During his term of office, the fatal assassination attempt at the State Commissariat for the Palatinate in Munich fell on Franz Josef Heinz in Speyer on January 9, 1924. He chose Aschaffenburg as his retirement home.

Club activity and honors

From 1919 to 1933 Wappes was chairman of the German Forest Association (DFV), which donated the Lorenz Wappes Prize on the 100th birthday of its former chairman in 1960 . The award honors outstanding activities in the public presentation of the forest and forestry to this day . From 1933 Wappes was honorary curator of the DFV. Wappes is also considered the founder of the working group for technology in forestry. In 1929 it appointed the Technical University of Dresden to Dr.-Ing. E. h.

The city of Aschaffenburg, the Spessart Association and the Naturpark Spessart e. V. placed the Dr. Wappes nature trail . The teaching forest of the Bavarian Forestry College Aschaffenburg was located here from 1819 to 1910. The eight-kilometer-long Tulpenbaum & Co. cultural hiking trail created by the Archaeological Spessart Project is still based on the nature trail .

literature

  • Matthias Schwind: A tulip tree for the forester . Main-Echo from June 5, 2013, p. 17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 105/317
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the accuracy of the stock separation
  3. ↑ a b c Dr. Wappes 70 years . Der Deutsche Forstwirt, Vol. 12 (1930), No. 6
personal data
SURNAME Wappes, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist and Bavarian-Palatinate civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Limbach (Eltmann)
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1952
Place of death Aschaffenburg