Max Neumeister

Max Neumeister (born May 15, 1849 in Kleindrebnitz , † December 1, 1929 in Dresden ) was a German forest scientist.

Life

Neumeister spent his childhood in the Vorwerk Kleindrebnitz and attended the Realgymnasium in Annaberg . From 1867 to 1869 he studied forestry in Tharandt with Johann Friedrich Judeich and Max Preßler . He then worked as a Forstadjunkt in Langebrück , where he planted seven peace oaks in April 1871, which are among the oldest surviving memorial trees in Dresden. From 1880 to 1906 he taught at the Tharandt Forest Academy. In 1887 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. From 1894 to 1904 he was director of the Royal Saxon Forest Academy in Tharandt and from 1906 to 1919 he headed the forest district of Dresden as head forester. Neumeister made special contributions to the further development of the teaching content and teaching methodology in forest science. He found his final resting place in the Inner Neustadt cemetery .

Honors

Neumeister's grave

Corps bow carrier of Saxonia Tharandt
Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1895)
Go Forestry Council (1902)
1904 honorary member of the Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture
1910–1920 chairman of the Saxon Forest Association
1917 Chairman of the German Forest Association
Neumeisterweg in the Tharandt forest ( Somsdorf district ) in the bathing valley of the city of Tharandt

literature

Secret Forest Council Groß, Tharandt: In memory of Dr. Max Neumeister . Thar. Forstl. Jahrb., Vol. 81, pp. 1–5, 1930
Frank Fiedler , Uwe Fiedler, life pictures from Upper Lusatia: 34 biographies from Bautzen, Bischofswerda and the surrounding area . Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 3842351771 , pp. 104-117

Web links

Literature by and about Max Neumeister in the catalog of the German National Library
Max Neumeister ( memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the Upper Lusatia Biographical Lexicon

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 125/75.
↑ Member entry of Max Neumeister at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Neumeister, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Max Heinrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German forest official and forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kleindrebnitz
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1929
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 125/75.

[2] Member entry of Max Neumeister at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.