Rudolf von Buttlar

Rudolf Georg Walrab von Buttlar , from 1813 Freiherr von Buttlar , (also Rudolph , born March 23, 1802 in Kassel , † January 3, 1875 at Elberberg Castle ) was a German forester , inventor and politician . He came from the Hessian Uradelsgeschlecht those of Buttlar .

family

His parents were Georg Ernst Victor von Buttlar (1763–1811), Hessen-Kasselischer , from 1807 royal Westphalian postmaster general, chamberlain and court assessor, and his second wife Marianne Eugenie Therese born. Countess von der Schulenburg (1771–1806).

He married his cousin Luise von Buttlar zu Elberberg (1805-1882), daughter of the Hessian Landjägermeister Gottlob Friedrich Wilhelm von Buttlar (1769-1849) and his wife Julie Karoline Sophie von und zu Gilsa (1782-1860 ) in Marburg on April 13, 1826 ). The marriage resulted in six sons and four daughters, of whom five sons and three daughters survived childhood.

Life

Buttlar first studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg , then at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After completing his studies, Buttlar took over the family property in the Elberberg and Ziegenhagen forest districts in northern Hesse, which mainly consisted of forests . As a conservative member of the Knighthood for the Diemelstrom from 1833 to 1848, he was a member of the Electoral Hessian Estates Assembly , and in 1851 he represented Electoral Hesse at the Ministerial Conference in Dresden .

As a senior in the Buttlar zu Elberberg family, he managed the family property in Northern Hesse, in particular the Elberberg castle and estate and the Riede castle and estate . In Elbenberg he had today's classicist castle built according to his plans from 1834.

Buttlar developed a new type of planting method for tree seedlings, which was quickly accepted in specialist circles, spread quickly and entered the standard forestry literature. In this process, he used an iron tool he had invented to place 1 to 3-year-old seedlings with bared roots in conical holes. Using this method, he planted more than five million seedlings in his forests. In his publication Forstkultur -verfahren in its application for the high mixed forest and its consequences , published in 1853 , he advocated artificial forest regeneration and for the high mixed forest.

Works (selection)

• Forest culture method in its application for the high mixed forest and its consequences for forest management for forest owners and foresters. Luckhardt, Cassel 1853. (PDF at google)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1862 , twelfth year, Perthes, Gotha, 1862, p. 88
2. ↑ Edouard-Marie Oettinger: Moniteur des dates. First volume, Oettinger, Dresden, 1866, p. 144

literature

• Wolf von Both:  Buttlar, Rudolf Georg Walrab Carl von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 81 ( digitized version ).
• Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first Hassenpflug era 1830–1837. (= Writings on constitutional history. 48). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
• Richard Heß:  Buttlar, Rudolf Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 655 f.
• Walther Killy (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 2. Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, DNB 958009244 , p. 254.
• Olaf Klose (Ed.): Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon. Volume 1. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1970, DNB 458843326 .
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 96.

Web links

• Buttlar, Rudolph von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).