Otto Linck

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Otto Linck (born May 15, 1892 in Ulm , † August 24, 1985 in Güglingen ) was a German forester, geologist, paleontologist, conservationist, landscape conservationist, photographer, writer and poet. Linck, a forest official in his main occupation, dealt with a variety of topics and areas of knowledge. At an early age he appeared as a poet and storyteller and apparition, who processed his experiences during the First World War in war novels . He published works on art and cultural history as well as local history topics such as the Maulbronn monastery , the Zabergäu and the history of Württemberg cities, forest science, biology, geology and paleontology. From the 1930s onwards, Linck also published numerous publications on the subject of nature conservation and landscape management. As a passionate photographer, he created the photographs for almost all of his publications himself. He has been honored with numerous awards for his life's work.

Life

Otto Linck was born in Ulm in 1892 into a Württemberg family of Protestant denomination. His parents were Emilie geb. Leuthaus and later Lieutenant General Otto von Linck (1859–1937). He had two siblings.

After attending elementary school and grammar school in Ulm, Linck attended the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , where he also graduated from high school. In 1911 he began to study forest science and geology at the University of Tübingen , which he finished in 1916 with the forestry examination.

In 1914, Linck volunteered for the military and took part in the First World War as a reserve lieutenant . He processed his war experiences in poems and short stories. After the war, Linck was a forest trainee from 1918 to 1920 at the Adelberg and Gaildorf Forestry Offices and at the Stuttgart Forestry Directorate. In Stuttgart he passed the forest state examination. From 1920 to 1922 he was a forest assessor at the Heilbronn , Güglingen and Schorndorf Forestry Offices, and from 1922 onwards he was a forestry officer at the Schorndorf Forestry Office. In 1924 he took over the Güglingen Forestry Office as forester, which he headed until his retirement in 1957. During the Second World War he was also in charge of the Sternenfels forestry office .

Linck published poems and stories in his early years, and in 1916 his first volume of poetry was published in Tübingen. Further stories and novellas came out up into the 1940s, and he published poems in the 1950s. His wartime novellas in particular did not meet with approval from everyone; on the arrears in the May 16, 1933 Börsenblatt for the German Book Trade published the first official black list of forbidden books for Prussia , that of Wolfgang Herrmann basis created for the burning of books in 1933 was even Linck published in Stuttgart collection of war stories 1,933 comrades in fate . From 1920 Linck devoted himself to local history and art and cultural history and brought out several books on monasticism and monasteries in Württemberg and especially the Maulbronn monastery . The history of Württemberg cities such as Ulm, Ludwigsburg and Schwäbisch Hall was also a theme for Linck. The enthusiastic photographer illustrated almost all of his publications on factual topics with his own photographs.

As a forester, Linck converted his Güglinger Revier am Stromberg into semi-natural deciduous and mixed deciduous forests with natural regeneration and worked on a variety of topics such as location issues of special tree species in silviculture, two-age tree populations and experimental cultivation of foreign tree species. He particularly campaigned against the threatened extinction of the endangered tree species Speierling , about which he published the article The Sperberbaum in Württemberg in 1937 . In lectures and excursions he brought forest students and other interested parties closer to forest science. As a nature conservationist and landscape manager, he devoted himself to the entire Zabergäu landscape beyond the forest and Stromberg, dealt with the relocation of vineyards on Michaelsberg , Zabergäu's local mountain, and was committed to countering increasing urban sprawl .

From the mid-1930s onwards, Linck increasingly turned to geology and paleontology . In 51 publications he reported a. a. about fossil finds and particularly often referred to the Württemberg Triassic . His planned work on Fifty Years of Trias Research in the Heilbronn area , which was to appear in 1981, remained unfinished; only the detailed introduction could be printed in 1981. The important Trias collection of Linck was acquired in December 1978 by the Städtische Museen Heilbronn , which Linck also honored with a special exhibition on his 90th birthday in 1982.

With his wife Gertrud, geb. Öffelhardt, whom he married in Heilbronn in 1921, was married to Linck until her death in 1974. The marriage produced a daughter. Otto Linck was buried next to his wife in the family grave in the Güglingen cemetery.

Memberships and honorary positions

Linck had been a member of the Württemberg forest association, later Baden-Württemberg forest association, since 1914, and was elected as its second chairman in 1950. From 1925 he was a member of the Zabergäuvereins and from 1940 its chairman. After the Second World War he was one of the re-founders of the association in 1953 and was again its chairman until 1985. Over the years he published numerous articles and around 170 photos in the Zabergäuvereins magazine published by the association . Linck was also a Freemason .

From 1935 to 1975 Linck was the district commissioner for nature conservation, initially for the Brackenheim district or the Oberamts , and then for the Heilbronn district from 1938 .

Works (selection)

  • From the years. Poems. Tübingen 1916.
  • Old Ludwigsburg. A cityscape. Tubingen 1920.
  • Rest on the journey. Poems. Tübingen 1921.
  • The flaming church. Novellas. Tubingen 1922.
  • Old Ulm. A cityscape. Tübingen 1924.
  • From medieval monasticism and its buildings in Württemberg. Augsburg 1931.
  • Comrades in Fate. War novels. Stuttgart 1933.
  • The trip to Java. Stories, Heilbronn 1936.
  • Maulbronn Monastery. (= German Land - German Art ). Berlin 1938.
  • Sang in the summer. Poems. Stuttgart 1940.
  • Saint Martin. A novella from the war. Heilbronn 1941.
  • The adventurer. Stories from home and the wider world. Gütersloh 1943.
  • Maulbronn. (= Guide to major architectural monuments . No. 18). Berlin 1944.
  • Germ and grain. Selected poems. Heilbronn 1948.
  • Medieval monasteries in Württemberg. Stuttgart 1949.
  • The Zabergäu with Stromberg and Heuchelberg. Öhringen 1949.
  • Monasticism and monastery buildings in Württemberg in the Middle Ages. 2nd Edition. by From medieval monasticism and his buildings in Württemberg. Stuttgart 1953.
  • The vineyard as a living space. Öhringen 1954.
  • The wine country on the Neckar. Constance / Lindau / Stuttgart 1960.
  • The geological factory museum and the power transmission. Lauffen a. N. / Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • Fifty years of triad research in the Heilbronn area. First part: From red sandstone to Lettenkeuper. Heilbronn 1981.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 , pp. 184-185 .
  2. ^ Wedig Kausch-Blecken from Schmeling : The Speierling. Sorbus domestica L. 2nd edition. Kausch, Bovenden 2000, p. 23–24 ( at corminaria.de ; PDF; 20.15 MB).
  3. ↑ 125 years of the museum in Heilbronn. Romanticism on the Neckar (=  museo . Band 21 ). City Museums Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2004, ISBN 3-930811-97-9 , p. 22-23, 41-42 .
  4. ↑ The appointment was made during the 40th anniversary celebrations on May 22, 1949: Honor roll. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 1949. Ed. By Felix Schuster on behalf of the Schwäbisches Heimatbund. Stuttgart [1949], pp. 176–177, p. 176 (with the prescribed surname Enck instead of Linck ).
  5. ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg
  6. ↑ Karl Lang: Award of the Robert Mayer Medal to Dr. Otto Linck (speech). In: Zeitschrift des Zabergäuvereins 1977, pp. 1–6; on the medal cf. Robert Mayer Medal from the Heilbronn District Medical Association .

literature

  • Gerhard Aßfahl : Otto Linck. In: Baden-Württemberg biographies. Volume 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-17-012207-X , pp. 213-215 (online)
  • Otto Linck: Selected Writings. Published by the city of Güglingen and the Zabergäuverein on the occasion of Otto Linck's 100th birthday on May 15, 1992 . City of Güglingen and Zabergäuverein, Güglingen 1992
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 242 .

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personal data
SURNAME Linck, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester, geologist, paleontologist, conservationist, landscape conservationist, photographer, writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1985
Place of death Güglingen