City hunters
A city hunter takes on hunting tasks on behalf of and with the approval of the responsible authorities on areas within the context of a built-up area and otherwise pacified for hunting.
Germany
Legal status
The town hunter is commissioned by the municipality to exercise its right to hunt. In addition, every citizen of the municipality can commission the city hunter to exercise his rights. The approval of the competent authorities is usually linked to a valid hunting license and includes the permission to carry and use certain firearms . The permit is usually limited to time and to a certain area. The activity can be carried out on a voluntary basis as well as part-time or full-time. As part of the JWMG Hunting and Wildlife Management Act, the institute is to be anchored in Baden-Württemberg for this purpose.
The areas on which the city hunter is active are not part of a private hunting district or a communal hunting district . Rather, they are pacified districts . This includes, in particular, cemeteries, built-up areas, parks, allotments and similar areas. Against this background, the activity of the city hunter in the legal sense is not to be described as hunting in the actual sense, since the hunt is inactive in pacified areas and may therefore not be practiced. Land in private ownership or private hunting lease is allowed to enter the city hunter in performance of his duties only with special permission of the owner or tenant. The city hunter is not obliged to pay compensation for game damage and is subject to the instructions of the police and law enforcement officers with sovereign duties . As a qualified person he can to assistance are requested thereby acting as line manager independently.
tasks
The tasks of the city hunter include the reduction of overpopulations, for example wood pigeons , rabbits , stone martens , red foxes , corvids , Egyptian geese and mallards and, to an increasing extent, raccoons . Usable animals that are not subject to the special protection of the Hunting Protection Ordinance (JagdSchVO) may be taken into possession by the city hunter. Poaching domestic dogs and cats as well as animals that are not subject to hunting law and pests within the meaning of the law only fall under the responsibility of the city hunter under special conditions. The city hunter also takes care of the animal welfare- friendly killing of game that has been involved in accidents involving game, as well as any conservation measures . He can also advise citizens on nature conservation issues and give help if problems arise with wild animals.
literature
- Hunting in Urban Areas - Necessary, Superfluous or Legitimate? . Papers of the ÖJV Federal Delegate Assembly 2004, Ökologischer Jagdverein Bayern, 2005, ISBN 3-89014-240-0 ( online (PDF) ).
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaur's large hunting dictionary . Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5 .
- Bruno Hespeler: Guideline hunting in the urban space of Berlin . Senate Department for City and Environment, Berliner Forsten, Berlin March 2007, Der Stadtjäger, online (PDF) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Hespeler: Guideline hunting in the urban area of Berlin . Senate Department for City and Environment, Berliner Forsten, Berlin March 2007, Der Stadtjäger, p. 48–52 (74 pp., Archive.org [PDF; accessed September 28, 2009]).
- ↑ JWMG § 13a in the draft law of the state government / state parliament BW, printed matter 16/8038 v. April 28, 2020
- ↑ BJG § 6: Hunting is stopped on areas that do not belong to any hunting district and in pacified areas. Limited hunting can be permitted. Zoos are not subject to the provisions of this law.
- ↑ Haseder, p. 84