Peter Weidenbach

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Peter Weidenbach (born December 25, 1934 in Ehlenbogen ) is a German forester . From 1977 he worked as the head of the department responsible for silviculture in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Rural Areas and was then forest president from 1994 to 1999, head of the Karlsruhe Forestry Directorate . The overall concept of near-natural silviculture in Baden-Württemberg is essentially linked to his name.

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Peter Weidenbach grew up in the northern Black Forest and attended school there. After graduating from high school in Freudenstadt , he completed a degree in forestry, mostly at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . After the clerkship , he with the 1961 Great Forest State Examination graduated, he worked for two years as Forsteinrichter and was then six years speaker for Forest Management of Forest Agency Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern in Tübingen . He then switched to forest policy in 1969 , where Weidenbach had been given the task of developing the planning for a local recreation area for Schönbuch, which is located between Stuttgart and Tübingen . His work presented in 1970, published in 1971 under the title Naherholungsgebiet Schönbuch. Current status, expansion planning. Evaluation of the recovery function. A contribution to the European Year of Nature Conservation 1970 created the basis for the expansion of the recreational area surrounded by industrial centers, which was declared the first nature park in Baden-Württemberg in 1972 .

In 1971 he took over the Bad Liebenzell Forestry Office , which he headed until 1977.

In 1977 Weidenbach then moved to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Environment (renamed in 1980 to Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Environment and Forests, from 1987 then Ministry of Rural Areas) to Stuttgart , where he became the head of the “Biological Production” department, which is responsible for the The departments of silviculture, forest management, forest protection and research had been appointed. He remained in this position in the rank of ministerial councilor at the head of the state forest administration of Baden-Württemberg until 1994. During this time, Weidenbach further developed existing instruments for forest planning and management with their various new approaches and also modified them in some cases. In the course of the 1980s, this culminated in the overall concept of near-natural silviculture for the Baden-Württemberg state forest, which he designed . For Weidenbach, this is the instrument to optimally fulfill the useful, protective and recreational functions on the entire forest area in addition to high, sustainable and diverse wood production . The goal was always a near-natural commercial forest . In practice, this mainly meant that the ratio of conifers to deciduous trees that was valid for the early 1970s was changed from two-thirds to one-third to a 50% distribution. The tree species that benefited most from this was the common beech .

A central feature of near-natural silviculture is the principle of preferring natural regeneration as far as possible to artificial foundation. Game browsing is a major stumbling block . At Weidenbach's initiative, after long negotiations with the hunters' association in Baden-Württemberg in 1983, the forestry report was introduced as the basis for shooting planning , and game management was thus based on the state of the vegetation. According to this, the game population should only be of such a height that the main tree species can be naturally rejuvenated. This concept was later introduced in other federal states. For Baden-Württemberg, Weidenbach was able to show considerable successes - but also through other measures such as an adjustment of the forest management procedure : During his 17 years as head of department in the ministry, the proportion of natural regeneration in the state forest increased from around 15 to more than 50 percent - which ultimately meant considerable cost savings for the public sector.

Under willow Bach's leadership also formed a working target types -Erlass (1979) and Guidelines for the young stand tending and forest management of air pollution particularly affected highlands of the Black Forest . In addition, the designation of forest protection areas progressed under his leadership . Together with Jürgen Schmidt and Kay Karius, he published a synopsis of the forestry positions in Baden-Württemberg in 1989 under the title Silvicultural goals and forest management results in the public forest in Baden-Württemberg . Weidenbach has also worked several times as editor for publications within the series of the state forest administration Baden-Württemberg and has also written a number of articles for various specialist journals .

When the head of the Karlsruhe Forestry Directorate, Forest President Dr. Friedemann Kälble, who retired on June 1, 1994, Weidenbach was appointed his successor and also appointed forest president. He then worked in this position until he retired in 1999. During Weidenbach's departure on December 13, 1999, the Minister for Rural Areas, Gerdi Staiblin , also transferred Dr. Winfried Meng took over the provisional management of the Karlsruhe Forestry Directorate, as it was to be dissolved on October 1, 2000 as part of the merger with the Freiburg im Breisgau Forest Directorate .

For his many contributions to the development of a natural forest management that gave Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS Hamburg Forst President Peter Weidenbach on 7 June 1999 in the Old Forest Academy Eberswalde the William Leopold arrow price 1999. The National Association of Baden-Württemberg, the German Forest Protection Association awarded his longstanding board member in 2001 with the gold pin of honor.

Fonts

  • as editor: landscape plan Glattal . Sulz-Dornhan , Stuttgart 1971
  • Recreation area Schönbuch. Current status, expansion planning. Evaluation of the recovery function. A contribution to the European Year of Nature Conservation 1970 , series of publications by the State Forestry Administration of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1971
  • as editor: Biographies of important forest people from Baden-Württemberg. Series of publications by the State Forest Administration of Baden-Württemberg (Volume 55), Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1980
  • as editor: memorial stones in the forests of Baden-Württemberg , series of publications by the state forest administration of Baden-Württemberg (volume 56), Stuttgart 1982
  • as editor: Directory of the forest and forest history of Baden-Württemberg , series of publications by the state forest administration of Baden-Württemberg (volume 60), Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1984 (2 volumes: title collection and register volume )
  • as editor: 30 years of the state forest administration of Baden-Württemberg. 1953–1982 , series of publications by the Baden-Württemberg State Forest Administration (Volume 63), Freiburg im Breisgau 1985
  • together with Jürgen Schmidt and Kay Karius: Silvicultural objectives and forest management results in public forests in Baden-Württemberg , series of publications by the State Forestry Administration of Baden-Württemberg (Volume 69), Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau 1989
  • The reforestation of the storm-damaged forest areas. The hurricane damage 1990. Causes and consequences , contributions to quality of life, forest conservation and environmental protection, health, hiking and home care (volume 33), Siegen 1991

literature

  • Wilfried Ott: FP Peter Weidenbach 60 . In: AFZ / Allgemeine Forst magazine for forest management and environmental protection . 50th year, issue 1/1995, p. 55
  • Hans-Ulrich Moosmayer: Pfeil Prize 1999 , in: AFZ / Der Wald - General Forest Journal for forest management and environmental protection . 54th year, issue 15/1999, p. 812, ISSN  1430-2713

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Ulrich Moosmayer: Pfeil Prize 1999 , in: AFZ / Der Wald . 54th year, issue 15/1999, p. 812
  2. ↑ Unser Wald , August 2001, p. 4. ( Memento of December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf; 21 kB); Retrieved May 16, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Weidenbach, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester, head of department, head of the Karlsruhe forestry department
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehlenbogen