Otto Koke

Otto Koke (born April 22, 1909 in Oberehnheim ; † December 18, 1966 ) was a German forester and hunting writer .

Life

Koke was the youngest of five children. After elementary school he attended the Georgianum grammar school in Lingen , which he left in 1926 after the tenth grade to begin an apprenticeship as a forester in Walsrode. After passing the district forester examination, he first worked in the district forester in Wietze , before taking over the district forester in the Lüchow forest office in 1953. There he lived with his wife Agnes in the forester's house. During this time he wrote most of his books. He wrote the numerous articles and series in forest and hunting magazines in the last third of his professional life and in retirement. Koke died on December 18, 1966.

Works

• Lightning the griffin. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1939.
• A year goes over the heather. A book about people, flowers and animals. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1943.
• The grimbarts. Life and fate of a badger and her clan. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1943.
• A forester walks through the forest. Dümmler, 1949.
• Peach and look. Sponholtz, Hanover 1949.
• Herzchen Furchtsam, the heather hare and other animal stories. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1951.
• King of the woods. A deer story. Sponholtz, Hanover 4th edition 1950.
• Small world of great wonders. Sponholtz, Hanover 1951.
• Oppressed, driven out, exterminated ... Sponholtz, Hannover 1953.
• The year of the hunter. A commitment. Sponholtz, Hanover 1956.
• The shot in the Birkenkamp. Ensslin and Laiblin Verlag, Reutlingen 1956.
• Good friend with all animals. Ensslin and Laiblin Verlag, Reutlingen 1959.
• The forest is calling. With the forester through the year. Ensslin and Laiblin Verlag, Reutlingen 1961.
• Rare tracks. Ensslin and Laiblin Verlag, Reutlingen 1963.
• Poachers at work. The case of the forester murderer Kleinschmidt. Landbuch Verlag, Hannover 3rd ed. 1964.
• Blitz, the hawk. Landbuch Verlag, Hannover 5th edition 1969.
• Brave animal mothers. Grundert, Hanover 1971.

items

1959

• Lively trade in tame roe deer. In: Wild und Hund , Vol. 62 (1959/60), pp. 125–126.
• Castle truce and peace break in the Horstbaum. In: Wild und Hund , Vol. 62 (1959/60), p. 137.
• Over 30 young chickens in one colony? In: Wild und Hund , 62nd year (1959/60), p. 220.
• From scooping the game. In: Wild und Hund , Vol. 62 (1959/60), pp. 244–245.
• Wooden trestles. In: Wild und Hund , 62nd year (1959/60), p. 295.

1960

• Pulpit surprises. In: Wild und Hund , Vol. 62 (1959/60), pp. 447-448.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 1. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 18.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 2. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 38.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 3. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 57.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 4. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd vol. (1960/61), pp. 77-78.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 5. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 102.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 6. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 121.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 7. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 147.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 8. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 167.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 9. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd vol. (1960/61), pp. 187-188.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 10. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 206.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 11. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 223.
• Next to the Pürschpfad. Part 12. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 249.
• Observations on tame roe deer. In: Wild und Hund , Vol. 63 (1960/61), pp. 324-325.
• Hare watching. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 334.

1961

• From roe deer. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 477.
• The snow boar. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 543.
• Buzzard beats Buzzard. In: Wild und Hund , 63rd year (1960/61), p. 562.
• Big boar and banana feeding. In: Wild und Hund , 64th year (1961/62), p. 127.
• About the mother cake with the roe deer. In: Wild und Hund , 64th year (1961/62), p. 246.

1962

• From my young badgers. In: Wild und Hund , Vol. 64 (1961/62), p. 465.
• From the quail. In: Wild und Hund , 65th year (1962/63), p. 360.

1963

• Odyssey of a hunting terrier. In: Wild and Hund , 66th vol. (1963/64), pp. 47-48.

1965

• Let your eyes be open. In: Wild und Hund , 68th year (1965/66), p. 17.
• Let your eyes be open. In: Wild und Hund , 68th year (1965/66), p. 47.
• Rabbits in need of water. In: Wild und Hund , 68th year (1965/66), p. 183.
• Experiences and thoughts about the loser. In: Wild und Hund , Volume 68 (1965/66), pp. 472–473.

1966

• The hunchback of spring. In: Wild und Hund , 69th vol. (1966/67), pp. 46-47.
• Tired. In: Wild and Dog . 69th vol. (1966/67), pp. 562-564.
• No “rabbit's foot”. In: Wild and Dog . Vol. 69 (1966/67), p. 432.
• Unpleasant "accompaniment". In: Wild and Dog . 69th volume (1966/67), p. 46.

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• Koke, Otto. In: German Hunting Lexicon. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
• Carolin Küllmer: Chief Forester Otto Koke. A portrait. In: The new Neudammerin. IV / 2009.
• Karl Schulte-Wess: Otto Koke - an (almost) forgotten hunting writer and nature lover from the Emsland. In: Emsland-Jahrbuch 2013 , pp. 215–224.