Rudolf Frauendorfer

Rudolf Frauendorfer (born June 5, 1924 in Molln , Upper Austria; † November 5, 2012 in Vienna ) was an Austrian forest scientist as well as rector and prorector of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna .

biography

Frauendorfer was the son of Heinrich and Maria Frauendorfer (née Leithner) and the younger brother of Marie Helene Frauendorfer, who later became the writer Marlen Haushofer . He first attended elementary school in Frauenstein from 1930 to 1934 and then went to high school in Steyr , which he graduated from in 1942 with the final exam. From 1942 to 1944 he did military service in the German Wehrmacht and was then a prisoner of war for two years. During this time he attended the YMCA college courses. From 1946 to 1950 Frauendorfer studied forestry at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.

From 1950 to 1951 he worked for the Austrian Federal Forests; 1951 at the Austrian forest status survey. A year later Frauendorfer married Ingeborg Havranek - the marriage had four children. From 1952 to 1954 Frauendorfer was an assistant at the chair for forest management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. He then obtained his doctorate in soil culture (Dr. rer. Nat. Techn.) In 1953 with the thesis “Mass tariffs for spruce”.

From 1954 to 1967 Frauendorfer worked at the Federal Forest Research Institute in Mariabrunn (today the Federal Research and Training Center for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, BFW); from 1955 he was head of the business administration department; or from 1956 head of the business administration department. In 1954 he also completed the state examination for higher forest service. Five years later he qualified as a professor for forest management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences with the thesis "Business studies in the Styrian farming forest". From 1959 to 1964 Frauendorfer was head of the Institute for Economics and provisional head of the Institute for Yield Science at the Federal Forest Research Institute. From 1964 to 1967 he was head of the Institute for Yield and Business Administration at the Federal Forest Research Institute.

From 1967 until his retirement in 1992 Frauendorfer was full professor for forest management and forestry business administration at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (from 1975 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , BOKU ). From 1974 to 1977 he was the rector of the university until 1980.

In the years 1968 to 1975 Frauendorfer also worked as editor of the specialist journal Centralblatt for the entire forestry sector (today the Austrian Journal of Forest Science ).

Awards

Frauendorfer was awarded the Ring of Honor by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in 1981, the Barthold-Stürgkh Prize in 1982 and the Karl Abetz Prize in 1989 . In 1990 he was made an honorary member of the Austrian Forest Association. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Scientific focus

Scored from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s Fraundorfer in the areas of Holzmess- and yield science, the forestry business and the Forest Management Plan (built on data collected in the forest, medium and long-term sustainability of control and operational planning for science and practice) equally important progress. Including as essential contributions:

• Introduction of the DGZ yield table: with the development of growth models based on absolute yield classes, fundamental progress has been made in the area of ​​the fundamentals of forest management. In contrast to the relative yield classes that were used up until then, which only achieve an ordinal classification of the growth ratios (e.g. into 'good', 'medium' and 'bad') by referring to the average total growth at the age of 100 years (= DGZ) established a cardinal system of measurement for growth models. The hundred times the yield class corresponds to the total growth performance over a period of 100 years. In addition to their direct significance for forest management , the absolute yield tables were also an essential, methodological basis for the reorientation of forest assessment .

• Introduction of the inventory sampling in forest management: on the basis of mathematical statistics and sample theory, Frauendorfer introduced the inventory sampling as an alternative to the more labor-intensive and less precise age-class procedure in the methodological concept of forest management. In addition to the essential, methodological contributions, the successful effort to introduce the concept into practice is a lasting merit. In connection with the relascope theory developed by Bitterlich and the mirror relascope as a measuring device, an efficient standard based on error theory has been established for mass-related data acquisition in the forest.

• Development of forest cost accounting and operational analysis: Frauendorfer dealt with the cost-theoretical concept of forestry operational accounting at an early stage and developed it further. The test farm network founded by him and scientifically supervised by him for many years in the Austrian forest was a model for further Austrian and foreign studies of this kind. In addition to the great importance of such studies in terms of forest science and forest policy, the cost-accounting-oriented farm analysis developed in connection with this has proven to be a methodical research approach and practical rationalization aid, on the other hand, has proven itself many times over. The forestry test operation networks, which have been continuously developed over half a century, represent a particularly valuable infrastructure and data source. They serve as the backbone of empirical, forest economic research in Austria as well as a point of contact for transdisciplinary studies.

• Contributions to forest evaluation: Frauendorfer made essential, methodical contributions to forest evaluation and incorporated them directly into evaluation practice. In addition to the mainly practically-oriented work on forest evaluation, it was especially the forest unit evaluation to which he devoted himself as a long-term member (1955–1992) of the evaluation advisory board for the forest unit evaluation at the Federal Ministry of Finance. He has significantly shaped the technical basis for the determination of standard values ​​and their further development over several main assessment periods. Standard values ​​in agriculture and forestry not only serve as a basis for assessing various taxes and duties, but were and are also used as reference values ​​in a wide variety of contexts, such as with regard to the flat rate of income tax , the accounting obligation or, earlier, also in connection with the appointment of forest organs . Frauendorfer also contributed to the rapid and practical consideration of the crown defoliation, which appeared massively at the beginning of the 1980s, and the associated loss of growth (" forest dieback ") in the system of unit valuation.

• Analysis of the rural forest management: Frauendorfer devoted herself to the object of knowledge of the rural forest enterprise, which due to its peculiarities (partially intermittent cultivation, structural anomalies due to overuse on the one hand and afforestation on the other, labor income through personal contribution, especially in thinning , interlinking with agriculture and housekeeping, etc.) poses a particular challenge in terms of methodology for the earnings and socio-economic analysis. His outstanding services to rural forest management, based on a scientific foundation, were recognized in 1989 with the award of the Karl Abetz Prize.

At the Federal Forest Research Center Fraundorfer was involved from the mid-1950s instrumental in the development of a business department and was ultimately the Institute of yield and economics. The establishment of a department for business administration in the Main Association of Agricultural and Forestry Companies in Austria (today: Land & Forst Betriebe Österreich ) in 1962 was a particular concern for Frauendorfer, towards which he successfully worked. The institutionalized cooperation with the voluntary interest representation forms the organizational foundation for the test network in the Austrian forest. This has proven itself over decades as an empirical data source and analytical tool for forest practice, forest science and forest policy.

Among other things, he campaigned for the establishment of a teaching forest, the establishment of the Association of Friends of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and the establishment of the Dr. Karl Schleinzer Foundation .

Memberships

Frauendorfer was also involved in various committees of the Austrian Forest Association (ÖFV). Among other things, he headed its specialist committee for business administration from 1962 to 1968. In the position of Vice President of the ÖFV, which he held from 1977 to 1989, he was particularly committed to the organization and holding of forest and forestry-related training seminars for AHS teachers in biology and environmental studies. In doing so, he made an important contribution to forest public relations. Frauendorfer has developed international cooperation in the field of forest economics research and teaching over decades, especially within the framework of the International Association of Forest Research Institutes (IUFRO) and the Forest Economics Colloquium (annual, joint conference of German-speaking teaching and research institutions in the field of forest economics).

Fonts (selection)

• Mass tariffs for the spruce with special consideration of the growing conditions in the Eastern Alps . Dissertation, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Vienna 1953
• Business studies in the Styrian farming forest . Series of publications by the Federal Forest Research Center in Mariabrunn, No. 7. Fromme, Vienna 1958
• First report on a forest study trip to the state forest administrations in Bavaria, Hesse and Sweden . Federal Forest Research Institute Mariabrunn, Information Service, 24th episode. Vienna 1959
• Forest business management in today's economic system . In: Der Land- und Forstwirtschaftliche Betrieb 10, (6/7): 126–128, 1961
• Functions of the forest on a mountain farm . In: Der Förderungsdienst 10, special issue, 20–24, 1962
• Forests and forestry in Austria . In: Agrarian Rundschau (3/4): 81–84, 1963
• Condition and performance of the farm forest in the Upper Ennstal . In: Centralblatt for the entire forest system 83, (3): 152–177, 1966
• Sampling procedure in the Austrian forest management facility . In: Der Bayerische Waldbesitzer 1, 1967
• To what extent are thinnings economically viable today? In: Holz-Kurier 22, (1): 1–3, 1967
• Business-dynamic sustainability as a prerequisite for successful forestry . In: Holz-Kurier 22, (28): 5, 1967
• Cost Studies in European Forestry, Chapter 3: Austria . In: E. Stridsberg, KV Algvere (Ed.): Cost Studies in European Forestry. Studia Forestalia Suecica 49, pp. 135-165, 1967
• The future of forestry management . In: Allgemeine Forstzeitung 79, (l): 1-6, 1968
• The reform of forestry studies . In: Holz-Kurier 24, (35), 1969
• Rural conversion and forest management, using the example of the Styrian community Haslau . In: Centralblatt for the entire forestry 87, (1), 1970
• Corporate planning and operational rationalization using the example of the Leoben real community . In: Allgemeine Forstzeitung 81, (10): 269-271, 1970
• The new degree in forestry and wood management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . In: Allgemeine Forstzeitung 82, (1): 1–4, 1971
• Trends in cost development in forest operations . In: Department of Forestry and Wood Management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Hrsg.): Specialized events 100 years University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna Part III: Business management and forest policy. Pp. 17-29, 1973
• Profitability and overall productivity of Austrian forest companies since 1962 . In: Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt 95, (1): 52-59, 1976
• Austrian forestry in the eighties . In: Agrarian Rundschau (6): 36-44, 1979
• Phases of economic development, endangerment and reorientation . In: Allgemeine Forstzeitung 95, (8): 231-235, 1984
• Forestry as a raw material supplier in the 21st century . In: Internationaler Holzmarkt 78, (14): 1–4, 1987
• Forestry - The forestry operations. Economic basics . In: Österreichischer Forstverein (Hrsg.): Forestry for AHS teachers in biology and environmental studies. Vienna. Pp. 237-294, 1988
• The operational analysis as an instrument of operational management . In: Allgemeine Forstzeitschrift 44, (33): 868-874, 1989
• Objectives of profitability, economic and forest policy research . Österreichischer Forstverein (Ed.): Forstforschungsenquete 1988. pp. 76–78, 1989
• Do federal forests manage worse than private companies? In: Holz-Kurier 45, (2): 6-7, 1990
• Resign knowing that you have achieved what is possible . In: Österreichische Forstzeitung 102, (12): 11–12, 1991

swell

• G. Auer: Frauendorfer and the unit assessment . In: Allgemeine Forstzeitung 95 (1984), 5: 129-130.
• G. Eckhart, W. Sagl: o.Univ.Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr. Rudolf Frauendorfer - 60 years . In: Centralblatt for the entire forestry 101 (1984), 2: 120-123.
• K. Gadenz: Abetz Prize for Frauendorfer . In: Holz-Kurier 44 (1989), 22: 2.
• H. Krendelsberger: Frauendorfer and the cost / yield analyzes . In: Allgemeine Forstzeitung 95 (1984), 5: 130.
• Austrian Forest Association: Dr. Rudolf Frauendorfer . In: Holz-Kurier 67 (2012), 47: 22.
• W. Purrer: Frauendorfer and the peasant forest . In: Allgemeine Forstzeitung 95 (1984), 5: 131.
• W. Sagl: em. o.Univ.Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr. Rudolf Frauendorfer - 70 years young . In: Centralblatt for the entire forest system 111 (1994), 2: 71-74.
• E. Sallinger: Frauendorfer and the sample inventory for forest management . Allgemeine Forstzeitung 95 (1984), 5: 131-132.
• W. Sekot: Mourning for Rudolf Frauendorfer . In: Forstzeitung 123 (2012), 12: 40–41.
• M. Welan: In memoriam Rudolf Frauendorfer . BOKUalumni (2012), 4: 51.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna: Rectors: Frauendorfer, Rudolf. Retrieved June 5, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Rudolf Frauendorfer - 85 years. In: Holzkurier. May 25, 2009, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Walter Sekot: Prof. Rudolf Frauendorfer died. In: forstpraxis.de. January 3, 2013, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
4. ^ University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna: Honorary Ring Bearers. Retrieved June 5, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Land & Forstbetriebe Österreich: Land & Forstbetriebe Österreich awards the Barthold Stürgkh Prize / Winner of the Barthold Stürgkh Prize 1979 to 2009. Accessed on June 5, 2020 .