Theodor Hugo Micklitz

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Theodor Hugo Micklitz (born November 8, 1856 in Freiwaldau (Jeseník) , Austrian Silesia , † January 11, 1922 in Vienna ), was an Austrian forester , hunting director at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph I and professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna .

Life

Theodor Hugo Micklitz was born into the forester family of Julius Micklitz (1821–1885) and his wife Klothilde Therese Johanna Hofmann (* 1831) from Ober Langendorf ( North Moravia ). Other sources give as the place of birth Karlsbrunn (Karlova Studánka) . Theodor is buried in the family grave of his uncle Robert Micklitz (1818–1898) in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna Group 17, Row 2. Rudolf Micklitz (* around 1896; † June 21, 1946) lies next to him in the family grave.

In 1878 he finished his studies at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and began his career in the Austrian state forest service . Until 1881 he was employed as a forester in various forest administrations, then he passed his state examination for the state forest service in 1881 and was appointed forest assistant. He became a teacher at the state forestry school in Gußwerk before he was transferred to Weißenbach am Attersee in 1891 as an kk forest administrator . He stayed there until 1893. As he came from a respected old forest ranger family and had broad knowledge of the forestry conditions of the monarchy and forestry, he was personally selected court hunting director and forestry councilor in Eisenerz from 1894 to 1898. He then became Appointed director of imperial private and family fund assets in Vienna. He remained in this position until 1912.

As a full professor from 1912 until his death in 1922, he was the chair for forest management and forest management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. During the First World War he was until 1917 as General and forestry speaker the General Government in Lublin allocated. His task was to organize the supply of wood for the troops , the construction of forest roads , the delivery of pit wood for mines and sleepers for the railroad. He had sawmills built and trees used for resin extraction.

As a forest manager and forest scientist, he saw his task as addressing practical problems, solving them and transferring the knowledge gained to practical use. Micklitz was a supporter of the ideas of Karl Gayer (1822–1907), he was particularly interested in forest management and silviculture , he was particularly committed to natural regeneration . He disseminated these ideas as a director of the Austrian Reich Forest Association and as a member of the timber industry .

Franz Heske (1892–1963) once called him "one of the most outstanding and best-known forest managers in ancient Austria" .

Fonts

  • The charring of wood in the closed and in the open space (published inter alia in: Geschichte d. Austrian agriculture and forestry and their industries 1848–1898, IV, 1899)
  • Stock conversion in the Wienerwalde (published inter alia in: Centralblatt for the entire forest system, at the same time organ for forest testing June 1910, pp. 243-257), article on scientific knowledge of the advantages of mixed stocks over pure stocks
  • Is the elimination of a plenter business class in the upper forest belt of the high mountains justified? (published inter alia in: Centralblatt for the entire forest system, at the same time organ for forest research, 40th year, 1914, pp. 28-38)
  • Prof. Dr. Th. Micklitz and assistant H. Schmied: Auxiliary tables for classifying spruce logs in a standing position, W. Frick, Vienna 1915
  • Inventory management and age group method, Deuticke, Vienna 1916
  • Communication on the forests in the Austro-Hungarian military administrative areas of Poland, 43rd year, 1917, pp. 132–46.
  • practical advice for forest aesthetic measures, 1918
  • The development of the forest management facility (published inter alia in: Land- u. Forstwirtschaftliche Lehrszeitung (Vienna) 32, 1918, pp. 1–11)
  • Determining the financial maturity of stocks, 1919
  • Proposals for the reorganization of forestry and the reform of the state forest administration in German Austria (review), 46th year, 1920, pp. 60–62.
  • Book value of forest properties, 1920

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna cemeteries
personal data
SURNAME Micklitz, Theodor Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiwaldau
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1922
Place of death Vienna