Sebastian Mantel

Sebastian Mantel (born July 15, 1792 in Langenprozelten , † July 27, 1860 in Wasserlos ) was a German forester .

Life

Mantel came from a forester and hunter family . He attended the Aschaffenburg Forestry University , which he graduated from in 1811. After two years of practice at one of the Grand Ducal Frankfurt Forestry Offices, he joined the Corps of Spessart Volunteers during the War of Liberation , in which he was promoted to lieutenant . In 1815 he served in the 14th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, where he was awarded the Army Memorial. In 1816 he became district forester in Obersteinbach, in 1818 district forest controller, in 1822 forester in Hochspeyer , then in Kaiserslautern .

Mantel was employed in the Kronach Forestry Office from 1832 by order of November 1831 . The conditions there required reforms, which he successfully implemented. When the royal forestry school Aschaffenburg was reopened in 1844 after several years of closure, Mantel was appointed its director and professor of the main forestry colleges. Here he worked until his retirement on January 20, 1859. During this time, on March 23, 1848, he was appointed to the government and district forestry council of the royal government of the Palatinate.

In 1842 he was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Merit of St. Michael for services acquired during his term of office in Kronach .

literature

• Richard Hess :  Coat, Sebastian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 252 f.
• Jutta Franke: Coat, Sebastian. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 505 ( digitized version ).
• Coat, Sebastian . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 6 : Kraatz-Menges . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094027-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1858, p. 32.