Max Kästner

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Max Eduard Reinhold Kästner (born December 3, 1874 in Großenhain ; † October 6, 1959 in Frankenberg / Sa. ) Was a German teacher, local researcher and conservationist.

Life

Already before the First World War, Max Kästner came to the teacher training college in Frankenberg as a senior teacher, where he presented the first publication ( student experiments ) in 1913, which was to be followed by numerous others. Most recently he was teacher at the high school (later Advanced High School ) in Frankenberg.

In his free time he was, among other things, nature conservation officer for the Chemnitz administrative district . He worked closely with the State Association of Saxon Homeland Security , which honored him in 2008 as a person who has made a special contribution.

Kästner became known in specialist circles around the world and was therefore widely quoted through an "appeal to combat the small-flowered balsam ", which he published in 1942 as the secretary of the Association of Saxon Botanists in the annual report of the association for 1941: "How should we now put this into ours Now let us ask gentlemen ... Head of the Ministry of Education to set the teachers and students in motion, the leadership of the National Socialist youth organizations. The war of extermination must be carried out before the plant begins to bloom So in May. The workers (children or adults) advance in closed chains from the roads ... Just as our entire Western culture is at stake in the fight against Bolshevism, so is an essential foundation in the fight against the Mongolian invaders of this culture, namely the beauty of our native forest s! " The call is considered an example of a pointless and hopeless project with a very questionable justification.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Richard Mahler: Das Mittelgebirge (= landscape pictures from the Kingdom of Saxony ), Meißen 1906.
  • How do I examine a plant club? Berlin 1919.
  • The plant associations and stocks of the Zschopau valley near Lichtenwalde , Chemnitz 1920.
  • The natural history classroom as a model for the classroom of the future , 1922.
  • The Frankenberger Anspännergüter , Frankenberg Sa., 1927.
  • Festschrift to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Privileged Vogelschützengesellschaft zu Frankenberg i. Sa. , Frankenberg i. Sat, 1930.
  • The dispute between the Frankenberg butcher's trade and the Sachsenburg official tenant over sheep herding on the city corridors in 1725 . In: Heimat , Frankenberg, Vol. 12 (1933), pp. 36-44.
  • The area around the Großhartmannsdorfer Großteich is the last remnant of a high moor in the lower Ore Mountains . In: Communications of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz eV , Dresden, Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz, Vol. 23 (1934), 1, pp. 19-28.
  • The Gosebachbruchwald with the Winzerwiese is a landscape worth protecting on the corridor border of the villages Naundörfel and Kmehlen . In: Communications of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz eV , Dresden, Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz, Vol. 29 (1940), pp. 170–186.

Honors

  • 1954 Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Natural Science Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden
  • The special school in Frankenberg bears his name today.

literature

  • Johannes Uhlig: In memorian Max Kästner, Frankenberg . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 6, 1960, No. 5, pp. 315-317.
  • Bernd Ullrich, Marion Rau: Dr. hc. Max Kästner. A deserving Frankenberg citizen without a National Socialist past! . In: Frankenberg in Sachsen , Frankenberg, Sa., 2012, 1, pp. 31–40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography Max Kästner, p. 182; 100 personalities of the Saxon homeland security; Pp. 179-189. In: Saxony - Future from Origin. Festschrift 100 Years of the Saxon Heritage Protection Association 1908–2008. Dresden: Regional Association of Saxon Homeland Security 2008
  2. ↑ Volkmar Weiss and Siegfried Bräutigam: To what extent was Impatiens noli-tangere displaced by the neophyte Impatiens parviflora in Saxony ? Reports of the Working Group of Saxon Botanists NF 23 (2018) pp. 105–117, cited here p. 107
  3. ↑ Homepage of the special needs school ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foerderschule-frankenberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Kästner, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kästner, Max Eduard Reinhold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, local researcher and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossenhain
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1959
Place of death Frankenberg / Sa.