Reinhard Schober

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Reinhard Schober (born February 15, 1906 in Berlin ; † December 26, 1998 ) was a German forest scientist . He was considered the nestor of forest growth research. The yield tables of important tree species compiled by him were used by foresters throughout Germany in the second half of the 20th century.

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After graduating from the Hessian state service in 1924, Reinhard Schober studied forest sciences, including at the University of Giessen , where he was a member of the Corps Teutonia . After completing his forestry traineeship , he passed the Grand State Examination in 1930. He then worked at the Hessian Forest Research Institute in Gießen with the field of operational management . With his dissertation, however, he laid the foundation for his further scientific activity, during which he mainly examined conifers , their growth and wood yield . Schober received his doctorate in 1934 with the study Die Schlitzer Lärche, a contribution to the larch question at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Gießen for Dr. phil. There he was from 1931 to 1937 scientific assistant to Gustav Baader, among others, and completed his habilitation in 1937 through experiments in beech thinning . When the forestry department of the University of Giessen was closed in 1938, he followed Baader as an assistant to the forestry university in Hann. Münden , which was incorporated into the University of Göttingen as the Forestry Faculty the following year . However, the location remained Hann. Münden, where Schober also gave lectures on wood measurement and income theory from 1941.

In addition, Schober took up practical duties in the forest administration , initially in 1937/38 as a district assistant. From 1945 to 1948 he headed the Hessian forestry office in Nieder-Ohmen and was then head of the teaching forestry office in Kattenbühl until 1952.

As the successor to his academic teacher Baader, Schober was then director of the Institute for Forest Management and Yield Science at the University of Göttingen from 1947 until his retirement in 1974, including the associated chair at the Forestry Faculty. In addition, from 1950 to 1974 he also headed the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute . Schober worked out important results for forestry yield customers . His name is closely linked to the table collection he has compiled and processed since 1957, yield tables of important tree species , which are an indispensable tool in forestry practice. Schober has revised and supplemented this work, to which he also contributed some yield tables, several times. The 4th edition appeared in 1995.

It was one of the main merits Schober that he succeeded in his first years as head of the Laboratory in many negotiations, the one with the forest managers states that Lower Saxony whole or in part to the past just like Prussia had heard to make agreements that the The Yield Science department of his company continued to allow work outside of Lower Saxony on the old Prussian test areas. This ensured the preservation and continuation of the experimental system, which is of significant value for science and business practice.

Schober's cultivation experiments with North American and Japanese conifers are also important, the results of which were also included in the yield table book. Schober wrote monographs on the Sitka spruce and the Japanese larch . From the 1950s onwards, he was one of the main proponents of the increased cultivation of foreign Japanese larch, among other things because of its resistance to larch cancer , which in this period up to the early 1970s resulted in a veritable “larch wave” above all in the north German forests.

Schober was also the editor of the series of publications of the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute . These and most of his writings were published by the specialist publisher JD Sauerländer in Frankfurt am Main .

Schober was awarded the Cross of Merit on the Ribbon of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit on December 15, 1986 for his achievements in the field of yield science and forestry research in recognition of his services to the State of Lower Saxony .

Reinhard Schober died on December 26, 1998, shortly before the age of 93.

Fonts (selection)

  • Die Schlitzer Lärche, a contribution to the larch question , dissertation, Gießen 1934
  • Results of the Hessian beech thinning attempts , habilitation thesis, Gießen 1937
  • The larch. A yield-based biological study , Hanover 1949
  • as editor and editor: mass tables for determining the wood content of standing forest trees and forest stands. After the work of the German and Austrian forest research institutes , Berlin and Hamburg 1952
  • The Japanese larch. A biological and yield research (series of publications by the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 7/8), Frankfurt am Main 1953
  • as editor and editor: Yield tables of important wood species with various thinning , Hanover 1957 (4th edition 1995 by Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-7939-0730-9 )
  • The Sitka spruce. A biological-yield research , (series of publications by the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 24/25), Frankfurt am Main 1962
  • together with Hans Joachim Fröhlich : The Gahrenberg larch provenance experiment. A biological and yield research and methodological study (series of publications by the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 37/38), Frankfurt am Main 1967
  • Die Rotbuche 1971 , (series of publications by the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 43/44), Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7939-0200-5
  • From the II. International Larch Provenance Trial. A contribution to the question of the origin of larches , (series of publications by the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and communications from the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 49), Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7939-0450-4
  • New results of the II. International Larch Provenance Test of 1958, 59 after recordings of partial tests in 11 European countries and the USA , (writings from the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 83), Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3- 7939-5083-2
  • together with Hans-Martin Rau: Results of the I. International Japanese larch provenance test , (publications from the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 102), Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-7939-5102-2
  • together with Hermann Spellmann: From cultivation trials with firs and other conifers from Japan, North America and Europe , (writings from the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 130), Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-7939- 5130-8

literature

  • NN: Professor Dr. Schober 60 years , in: Allgemeine Forstzeitschrift (AFZ), 21st volume, issue 7/1966, p. 132, ISSN  0002-5860
  • Hans Achim Gussone : Professor Schober on the 80th birthday in: Der Forst- und Holzwirt . 41st volume, No. 3, 1986, pp. 68-70
  • F. Franz: Professor Reinhard Schober on the 90th birthday in: Forst und Holz . 51st year, issue 3, 1996, ISSN  0932-9315 , pp. 90-91
  • Horst Kramer : Professor Dr. Reinhard Schober commemorated in: Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung . Volume 170, Issue 2, 1999, ISSN  0002-5852 , p. 21

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