Max Scheifele

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Max Scheifele (born December 13, 1920 in Karlsruhe ; † October 9, 2013 ) was a German forest official and scientist . From 1974 to 1985 he headed the state forest administration of Baden-Württemberg . After his retirement he came out with a number of forest history books. Scheifele was a specialist in the history of rafting in the Black Forest .

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Max Scheifele was born on December 13, 1920 in Karlsruhe. In 1939 he passed his Abitur in Offenburg . Then he was drafted into the Reich labor and military service. After the end of the Second World War , he studied forest sciences at the forestry faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen in Hann. Münden as well as at the natural science and mathematics faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he also passed the university examination in 1948. This was followed by his legal clerkship , which he completed in the Gernsbach Forestry Office and graduated as a forest assessor in 1949 with the Great State Forest Examination. In the Baden-Württemberg state forest administration, Scheifele initially worked in the personnel department of the state forest administration of South Baden and as a clerk in the state hunting office in Freiburg. From 1952 to 1954 he worked as Forsteinrichter and then the forestry office was appointed head of Breisach am Rhein appointed. In this role, he also headed a large reforestation program in the groundwater lowering area on the Upper Rhine .

He demonstrated his inclination for forest history early on and received his doctorate in 1957 under Kurt Mantel with the dissertation The forest organization in Baden since 1803. A contribution to the forest history of Southwest Germany at the University of Freiburg for Dr. rer. nat. This presentation opened as volume 1 in the series of publications by the State Forestry Administration of Baden-Württemberg , which has been continuously continued ever since . In addition, Scheifele has always dealt with foreign forestry during his professional career. Study trips took him to France , Austria , Great Britain , the Netherlands and Switzerland .

In 1958 Scheifele was appointed to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests in Baden-Württemberg . Where he led in the following years, several lectures in succession, including nearly eight years the Department of organic production, Forstliches experimentation, spatial planning and regional planning . During this time he gave the forest management numerous new impulses. Scheifele not only developed new principles and guidelines for the selection of wood species and their silvicultural treatment, but also designed a method for mapping forest functions , which was subsequently adopted by all federal states. These merits led to the fact that from 1963 to 1970 he was also head of the forest management working group for the whole of Germany.

In 1971 Scheifele took over the department for organization, training and further education and development aid in the Stuttgart Ministry . There he began to introduce a contemporary management style into the forest administration, for which he also dealt with the reorganization of the forest offices and reforms in the training of the staff. In 1972 he was appointed deputy to the State Forestry President Hubert Rupf. When Rupf retired, Scheifele took over as his successor on July 1, 1974, the management of the state forest administration, which he held until his retirement in 1985. Landesforstpräsident Scheifele played a key role in introducing modern management and work concepts in the state forest administration and implemented a reorganization of forest law . This also included the integration of forestry and forest science in regional planning and maintenance as well as - with a stronger external impact - an active role of the forest administration in the fields of nature conservation and recreation in the forest. Scheifele also suggested the development of regional silviculture guidelines and supported his department head Peter Weidenbach in the conception of near-natural silviculture for the state forest of Baden-Württemberg.

After his retirement in 1985 Scheifele devoted himself more to his forest history passions. In 1988 he published the standard work Die Murgschifferschaft . History of the raft trade, the forest and the timber industry in the Murg Valley , fitting the celebration of the 500th anniversary of this oldest German forestry cooperative . This book was followed by further descriptions of the history of rafting in the Black Forest, including the work When the Forests went on a journey, which was awarded the State Prize for Local Research . Forest, wood, rafting in the economic history of the Enz - Nagold area . In addition to his books, Max Scheifele has also published articles in specialist journals over the decades and has given numerous lectures.

The Forest Science Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich awarded him the Karl Gayer Medal in 1987 for his services to the modernization of forestry and natural silviculture . In 1996, his former alma mater awarded him an honorary doctorate for his forest history research .

Max Scheifele last lived in Stuttgart.

Awards

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  • The forest organization in Baden since 1803. A contribution to the forest history of Southwest Germany , dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957 (in the book trade under this title as Volume 1 of the series of the Landesforstverwaltung Baden-Württemberg , Karlsruhe 1957)
  • as editor together with Ulrich Ammer: Memorandum on the situation of the landscape in the southern Upper Rhine area. Landscape master plan. A contribution to the European year of nature conservation 1970 , Stuttgart 1970
  • The Murgschifferschaft. History of the raft trade, the forest and the timber industry in the Murgtal (with contributions by Casimir Katz and Eckart Wolf), Gernsbach 1988 (under this title also as Volume 66 of the series of the Landesforstverwaltung Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 1988; 2nd edition, Gernsbach 1995, ISBN 3-925825-20-7 )
  • The rafting on the Ettlinger Alb . From the history of the Alb valley , Gernsbach 1993 ( ISBN 3-925825-60-6 )
  • When the forests went on a journey. Forest, wood, rafting in the economic history of the Enz-Nagold area , series of publications by the Baden-Württemberg state forest administration (volume 77), Freiburg im Breisgau 1995 ISBN 3765081647
  • From the forest history of the Black Forest. The drift of firewood and cabbage wood. When boundary stones talk , Stuttgart 2004 ( ISBN 3-87181-010-X )

literature

  • NN: State Forest President Dr. Max Scheifele, new head of the state forest administration of Baden-Württemberg , in: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , Volume 29, Issue 15/1974, p. 336, ISSN  0015-7961
  • FFM: Karl Gayer Medal to Dr. Scheifele , in: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , 42nd year, issue 22/1987, p. 620, ISSN  0015-7961
  • Fridolin Wangler: retired state forest president Dr. Dr. hc Max Scheifele 80 , in: Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift (AFZ) . 48th year, issue 06/2001, p. 319, ISSN  1430-2713

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SURNAME Scheifele, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest official and forest scientist, head of the Baden-Württemberg state forest administration (1974–1985)
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2013