Rüdiger Schwarz (Forest Master)

Wolfgang Rüdiger Sebald Schwarz (born January 2, 1914 in Lübeck , † June 3, 1978 in Lockstedt ) was a German state forest master.

education

Rüdiger Schwarz was a son of the educator Sebald Schwarz and his second wife Friederike Luise Agnes Petersen (born October 21, 1872 in Blankenese; † October 21, 1955 in Rantzau). He had two sisters and two brothers.

Schwarz attended the Oberschule zum Dom , where he passed his matriculation examination in 1932. He finished studying forest sciences at the University of Gießen in 1936 in Niederohmen with the first state examination. After his legal clerkship, he passed the second state examination in Darmstadt in 1938 . In the same year he was drafted into military service and fought in France, Africa and Russia, since 1942 as a lieutenant in the reserve. In 1944 he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat doctorate. From the end of 1944 to the spring of 1945 he worked as a forester at the State Forestry Office in Posen and at the Forestry Office in Abtshagen. Then he had to do military service again.

Working in Eutin

After the war ended, Schwarz worked at the Eutin Forestry Office and from 1945 to 1946 at the Government Forestry Office in Schwerin as a liaison officer for the British military government . Despite numerous opposition, he managed here to reduce hunting in the Schleswig-Holstein districts to an acceptable level. From 1946 to November 30, 1965, Schwarz headed the Rantzau Forestry Office. From 1948 to 1968 he also headed the Rotwildring Hasselbusch. In 1958 he joined the hoofed game committee of the Hunting Protection Association. From 1958 to 1967 he was chairman of the Pinneberg district group of the Schleswig-Holstein State Hunting Association.

Schwarz wrote his first books in Rantzau, for example “Jagen, mein Leben” in 1960 and “Memory Lives” in 1965. At the time when Schwarz joined the Rantzau Forestry Office, the British military government and the needy residents were taking over the forest. The stocks of old wood were largely used up, and the bare areas had to be replanted. Despite the complicated circumstances, Schwarz was able to reforest the area in such a way that this was recognized decades later.

Work in Kiel

On December 1, 1965, Schwarz received a promotion to head forest master and a new position at the State Forests Office in the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests in Kiel. He took over the representation of the head of office and the head of the department for forestry and timber industry and other tasks. On January 1, 1967 he was appointed state forest master. On December 1, 1967, he took over the management of the forestry and timber industry and the office for state forests. Thus he was the highest forest official in Schleswig-Holstein. Forests, hunting and nature conservation are in his area of ​​responsibility.

From 1968 to 1972 he took on the honorary second chairmanship of the Northwest German Forest Association. In 1973 he was appointed a member of the state in the Conseil International de la Chasse . In addition, he worked as an official surveyor for hunting trophies imported to Germany from the USA, Canada and Alaska.

During his time as head of the state forest administration, Schwarz had to solve numerous problems. The economic basis of forestry was severely restricted. In 1967, 1968, 1972 and 1976 storms destroyed the forests. This led to problems in processing, wood recycling and reforestation, which Schwarz had to solve.

As head of the highest hunting authority and the highest nature conservation and landscape maintenance authority, Schwarz endeavored to preserve natural assets and to make the landscape diverse. In 1970 he participated in the State Hunting Act, in 1971 in the State Forest Act and in 1973 in the Law for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management.

Schwarz had been married to Hildegard Charlotte Burgdorf (born October 1, 1915 in Osnabrück ) since the marriage on March 4, 1944 in Munich . Her father Ferdinand Maria Piepenbrock was a farmer and banker and married to Luise Wilhelmine Burgdorf. The couple had a daughter and two sons.

Schwarz died in June 1978 while hunting in the Schierenwald near Lockstedt.

Merits and honors

Schwarz was not only considered a respected forester, but especially an important hunter and hunting writer. The maintenance of the Hasselbusch Hegering was one of his extraordinary achievements . He involved those authorized to hunt in the neighboring areas and tried to establish a red deer population. This developed very well given the relatively small area.

Schwarz wrote extensively about new developments in hunting and influenced other publications. For the book "Forester, Farmers, Strong Deer", he received the 1973 Literature Prize of the German Hunting Protection Association. In 1967 he received the merit badge in silver of the German Hunting Protection Association, in 1973 the game reserve badge of the association. In 1973 he was made an honorary member of the Rotwildring Hasselbusch.

Fonts

• The memory lives on , Parey 1965

Schwarz completely revised the manual and textbook Das deutsche Waidwerk originally written by Ferdinand von Raesfeld in its 14th edition (1980).

literature

• Gerhard Schneider , Georg Volquardts: Black, Rüdiger . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, pp. 289-291

Individual evidence

1. ^ Achim Leschinsky: Schwarz, Sebald . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985 p. 291.