Reich Forestry Office
The Reichsforstamt was the highest Reich authority for forestry and hunting , timber management , nature conservation and the preservation of natural monuments in the National Socialist German Reich . The Reichsforstamt was set up with the "Law on the Transition of Forestry and Hunting to the Reich", which was passed unanimously by the Reich Government on July 3, 1934 . The forest should be preserved in its importance for people and national culture and the forestry with its tasks of labor and raw material supply for the German people should be promoted. To this aim to meet a rich unified authority should be created, and the DC circuit to serve the former state authorities.
At the head of the authority was the Reichsforstmeister with the rank of Reich Minister. In 1935 the Reich Forest Office was merged with the Prussian State Forest Office.
In addition to forestry, hunting was also spun off from the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture in 1934 and placed under the Reich Forestry Office. Department IV was initially responsible for hunting. In hunting matters, the Reichsforstmeister used the designation Reichsjägermeister.
The regional forest offices and the forest offices of the Reich as well as the regional forest administrations and forest offices of the federal states were available to the Reichsforstamt as intermediate and subordinate authorities.
structure
The Reich Forestry Office was divided into four departments plus staff until 1936:
- Head of staff: Ulrich Scherping
- Central and Personnel Department (I) - Head: Chief Forest Officer Adolf Kamlah (1899 - 1962)
- Forest management and forestry operations (II) - management (1935–1941): Otto Erb (born January 23, 1880 in Pirmasens , † December 22, 1961 in Frankenthal )
- Forestry and timber industry policy (III) - Head: Willi Parchmann
- Reichsjagdamt (IV) - Head: Ulrich Scherping
After the takeover of private forest management from the Reichsnährstand in spring 1941, the Reichsforstamt was expanded to nine (from 1942: eight) departments, which essentially remained until 1945:
- Central Department (Z) (affiliated with the Reich Defense and Defense Economy Unit) - Head: Ministerialdirigent and SS-Standartenführer Reinhold Maul (NSDAP No. 2290763 and SS No. 347167)
- Personnel department (P) - Head: Erich Chrobog (father of Jürgen Chrobog )
- Department of Forest Policy and Forest Science (F) (affiliated with the colonial group K, which formed its own department in 1941) - Head: Willi Parchmann
- Forest Administration and Forestry Operations Department (B)
- Private Forest Department (W)
- Wood Industry Department (H)
- Reichsjagdamt (J) - Head: Ulrich Scherping
- Nature Conservation Department (N) Lutz Heck
management
Reich Forest Master and Prussian State Forest Master
| Surname | Taking office | Term expires |
|---|---|---|
| Hermann Göring with the rank of Minister of the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture | July 3, 1934 | April 23, 1945 |
General forest master
| Surname | Taking office | Term expires |
|---|---|---|
| Walter von Keudell | July 3, 1934 | November 1, 1937 |
| Friedrich Alpers | November 1, 1937 | February 1944 |
| Dietrich Klagges (he succeeded Alpers, but it is unclear whether he was awarded the rank of general forest master) | February 1944 | 1945 |
State Secretary and permanent deputy to the Reich Forest Master
| Surname | Taking office | Term expires |
|---|---|---|
| Walter von Keudell | July 3, 1934 | November 1, 1937 |
| Friedrich Alpers | November 1, 1937 | February 1944 |
| Dietrich Klagges | February 1944 | 1945 |
Deputy General Forester
| Surname | Taking office | Term expires |
|---|---|---|
| Ministerial Director Willi Parchmann | July 3, 1934 (?) | May 13, 1943 |
| ? | May 13, 1943 | 1945 |
See also
Publications of the Reich Forestry Office
- Reichsministerialblatt der Forstverwaltung. Edited by the Reich Forestry Office and the Prussian Forest Office.
Individual evidence
- ↑ RGBl. 1934 I, p. 534 f.
- ↑ Adopted early retirement in 1943; R. Joachim Lilla: Erb, Otto, in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945, URL: https://verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/erb-otto > (December 4, 2014).
literature
- Dirscherl, Stefan: Animal and nature conservation in National Socialism, Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2012, pp. 73-75 ( ISBN 978-3-8471-0029-4 ).
- Rubner, Heinrich: German Forest History 1933-1945: Forestry, Hunting, and Environment in the Nazi State, St. Katharinen: Scripta-Mercaturae-Verl., 1985 ( ISBN 3-922661-24-6 ).