Otto Eberbach

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Otto Eberbach (born September 20, 1865 in Bretten , † January 13, 1928 in Radolfzell ) was a German forester.

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Otto Eberbach was the son of the Bretten master baker Karl Jonathan Friedrich Eberbach (1818–1880) and the shoemaker's daughter Maria Barbara Harsch (1829–1906). The paternal grandfather was the Bretten miller Ernst Friedrich Eberbach. He himself married Rosa Dietz (1877–1953) in Karlsruhe in 1901 , whose father Hermann Dietz was a technician. From this marriage came two sons and three daughters.

Eberbach completed a degree in forest sciences at the TH Karlsruhe and passed the state examination in 1888. After that he worked especially in forest management and taught forest warden courses for some time. In 1899 he was appointed head forester and took over the service of the Bonndorf forest district . In 1914 he moved to Konstanz in the same position and was transferred to Radolfzell five years later.

Eberbach's importance lay in the area of ​​forest management and forest management. There he advocated an incremental process and a balance sheet for the forests and represented original points of view with which he was far ahead of his contemporaries. In 1927 he wrote his last book on "The forestry economy, its operational order and commercial supervision", which gives an overview of his points of view. In fact, he is likely to have underestimated the problems that arose in the practical implementation of his proposals.

Eberbach was guided in his opinions on silviculture by Alfred Möller and in particular Henri Edouard Biolley and translated Biolley's book about "forest management based on experience and, in particular, the control procedure" into German. He preferred a forest of different ages, but did not proceed dogmatically, but regularly took the view that the best way to treat a forest is that which, under the existing conditions, best serves the tasks and goals of forestry.

Eberbach's essential importance in his area of ​​expertise was business administration. Here he was the first person to point out that it was necessary to structure and control forest management according to commercial principles.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Mantel:  Eberbach, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 225 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Kurt Mantel:  Eberbach, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 225 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Kurt Mantel:  Eberbach, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 225 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Kurt Mantel:  Eberbach, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 226 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Kurt Mantel:  Eberbach, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 226 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Eberbach, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Boards
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1928
Place of death Radolfzell