Victor Dieterich

Victor Dieterich (spelling also Viktor Dieterich , born August 26, 1879 in Neuenstadt am Kocher , Kingdom of Württemberg , † December 8, 1971 in Stuttgart ) was a German forest scientist and university professor .

Life

Family, education and professional career

Victor Dieterich, the son of the postal inspector Carl Dieterich and his wife Marie, née Hochstetter, passed the Abitur at the Humanistic Gymnasium in Maulbronn in 1907 . After completing the military service as a one-year volunteer , he occupied until 1902 the study of forestry at the University of Tübingen , where he was in 1910 for Dr. rer. pole. PhD . During his studies he became a member of AMV Stochdorphia Tübingen .

After completing additional practical training in the Württemberg State Forestry Administration, Victor Dieterich was employed as a forestry assistant, in 1908 he was promoted to forestry officer and in 1914 to forestry master . In 1921 Victor Dieterich was entrusted with the management of the Württemberg Forest Research Institute in Tübingen , in 1925 he moved to the Württemberg Forest Directorate in Stuttgart , where he resigned in 1930.

Victor Dieterich also pursued a university career. After he had filled a teaching position at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen from 1918 to 1920 , he was given the full professorship in forest sciences at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 1921 . After leaving the Württemberg civil service, Victor Dieterich took on the same professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1930 , a position he held until 1947. In addition, Dieterich was in charge of the Institute for Forestry Policy and Forestry Management until his retirement in 1950.

Victor Dietrich married Maria Essig, born in 1908, with whom he had two children. He died in 1971 at the age of 93 in Stuttgart.

Honors

Victor Dieterich, who served as editor of the Forstliche Wochenschrift Silva from 1913 to 1937 , has received several awards in recognition of his special services in his field, including

• In 1924 when he was appointed a member of the Forest Science Society of Finland
• 1930 with admission to the Baden-Württemberg Forest Association
• 1950 with the appointment as honorary member of the Baden-Württemberg Forest Association
• 1951 with the election to the corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 1954 with the award of an honorary doctorate by the forest science faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 1954 with the Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany presented by Federal President Theodor Heuss
• 1964 with the awarding of the Wilhelm-Leopold-Pfeil Prize provided by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS Hamburg
• and in 1967 with the award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)

Publications

• The elements of added value in forestry, Laupp, Tübingen, 1911
• Forestry business administration: a teaching and manual, 3 volumes, Parey, Hamburg, Berlin, 1938-41
• Expert opinion on forestry sub-issues of the Upper Silesian planning work, in particular on the interrelationships between industry and forestry, Munich, 1942
• The public economic significance of larger private forest holdings, Ulmer, Ludwigsburg, 1948
• Forestry Policy: An Introduction, Parey, Hamburg, Berlin, 1953

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar. Volume 1, 10th edition, Berlin 1966, p. 386.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16 , Arani, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 206.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 2, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 528.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 34.

Web links

• Literature by and about Victor Dieterich in the catalog of the German National Library