Wedig Kausch-Blecken from Schmeling

Wedig Kausch-Blecken from Schmeling

Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling (often just Wedig Kausch ; born April 17, 1934 ) is a German forest official and forest scientist . Nationwide notoriety gained the dendrologist by his commitment to the preservation of the rare tree species Speierling and wild service tree to which he each extensive monographs presented.

Life

Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling, who came from Pomerania , fled to West Germany at the end of the war in 1945. After graduating from high school in Hamburg , he began training in forestry. He began this with a year of apprenticeship with forester Hans Jürgen von Arnswaldt (1897–1988) in the Sachsenwald . He then studied forest sciences at the Forestry Faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen in Hann. Münden and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He returned to Schleswig-Holstein for his forestry traineeship . After passing the Great State Forest Examination , he worked for four years as an assistant to Gerhard Speidel in Hann. Münden, where he wrote a dissertation on the business management topic of administrative costs for the various yield classes of the beech and spruce tree species. Shown on examples of the Lower Saxony state forest administration 1965 also got a doctorate . Then Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling went to Brussels for a year and a half , where he was employed in the forestry department of the Statistical Office of the European Community .

His switch to forestry practice led him to Lower Saxony , where he initially worked for five years as a forest judge at the Lower Saxony Forest Management Office. During this time he set up the forestry offices in Cloppenburg (partially), Uetze , Syke and Diekholzen .

In 1972, Schmeling transferred Kausch-Blecken to head of the Bovenden Forestry Office near Göttingen . There he was mainly concerned with the peculiarities of the precious hardwood economy and marketing. So he began to deal intensively with the service tree . In 1975 he launched the first culture mitangelegt this tree species in the forest of the forestry office Bovenden near Göttingen. He also turned to the service tree , about which he also published a treatise in 1980 in the series “ Aus dem Walde ”.

By the close contacts that traditionally maintains the Forestry Office Bovenden to Forest Faculty and the University of Applied Sciences in Göttingen, it turned out eventually that Wedig Kausch-baring von Schmeling 1,977 full-time as a professor for the subjects forest management and logging operations at Göttingen Department of Forestry (now "Faculty Resource Management ”) at the University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen , where he taught until he retired in 1999. From 1981 to 1983 he was also the dean of his department.

Services

Wedig Kausch-baring von Schmeling has particularly suitable for the preservation of the now rare Sorbus domestica used

Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling has been well-known in the German-speaking area since his time as the head of the forestry department in Bovenden and then as a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Göttingen through his commitment to the conservation and promotion of the service tree and service tree species. These, in any case not often, were increasingly threatened with extinction due to modern silviculture , since they are hardly competitive in modern high forest , especially in old age, as tree species that require a lot of light and are gradually darkened and thus disappear without targeted maintenance interventions by humans. It is largely thanks to Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling that we have brought this problem into the public eye and caused a rethink among foresters.

To his two books Der Speierling (1992) and Die Elsbeere. To be able to design and equip Sorbus torminalis Crantz (1994) entirely according to his ideas, he founded the Kausch publishing house, based in Bovenden. His two monographs have been the standard works on these tree species ever since. While still a professor in Göttingen, he managed to get the service tree named " Tree of the Year " in 1993 . This secured broad media attention for the rose plant, which has now become rare, and resulted in numerous campaigns in favor of this tree species.

Together with the Frankfurt wine press Günther Possmann, Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling founded the “Speierling Support Group” on April 9, 1994 in Frankfurt am Main . In addition to the service tree , this also deals with the other "Sorbus" species: service tree , whitebeam and rowan , their preservation and promotion. The specialist magazine Corminaria was also founded in 1994 as a newsletter of the sponsorship group, which Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling published in his publishing house until the end of 2006 and which was also editor-in-chief . In addition, he was the managing director and secretary of the “Speierling Support Group” for many years. On January 1, 2007, the foundation "Wald in Not" took over the management and also the publication of the Corminaria .

These high-profile campaigns had already been preceded by intensive scientific investigations, such as the provenance test for the service tree established in 1988 with Europe-wide collection by Professor Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling. He also supervised 20 diploma theses in the forestry department, which produced essential knowledge about this tree species.

Through all of these activities it was possible in a comparatively short time to bring the service tree and service tree back into general forestry awareness and to do a lot for them. Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling was able to determine in 2005:

“In addition to the planting of many young service trees in solitary position, it has been particularly successful that the service tree, which was not mentioned earlier, is now mentioned and recommended in the work instructions of almost all German state forest administrations together with the service tree species as worthy of preservation and promotion. Seed and conservation plantations were established. "

Wedig Kausch-Blecken has received several awards from Schmeling for his commitment, including the silver medal of honor from the State of Hesse in 2005 for his special services to agriculture, forestry and nature conservation .

Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling lives in Bovenden .

Honors

• 2005 - Silver medal of honor from the State of Hesse for his special services to agriculture, forestry and nature conservation
• 2005 - Honored by the "Austrian Society for the Preservation and Promotion of Rare Tree and Shrub Species" (ÖGEBS) for its commitment to preserving and promoting the service

Fonts

• The administrative costs for the different yield classes of the beech and spruce tree species. Shown using examples from the Lower Saxony State Forest Administration , dissertation, Göttingen 1965
• The service tree (Sorbus torminalis Crantz) , in: Aus dem Walde , Heft 33, Hannover 1980
• Wood science. Recognizing the wood , University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim, Holzminden, Department of Forestry Göttingen (Volume 3), Göttingen 1986
• Der Speierling , Bovenden 1992 (2nd edition Bovenden 2000)
• The service tree. Sorbus torminalis Crantz , Bovenden 1994 ( ISBN 3-88452-925-0 )

literature

• Hartmut Brondke: New dean in the “Forestry” department in Göttingen . In: Forstliche Mitteilungen , Volume 34, No. 7/1981, p. 134, ISSN  0015-797X
• NN: Prof. Dr. Kausch von Schmeling 60 years . In: Holz-Zentralblatt , Volume 120, No. 46/1994, p. 752, ISSN  0018-3792

Web links

• Literature by and about Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence of the publishing house W. Kausch, with the magazine Corminaria and "Förderkreis Speierling"
• Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling: The Speierling - Tree Of The Year 1993
• Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling: Resource Management and the Revitalization of Endangered Tree Species - An Example of the Importance of Diploma Theses (pdf) (1000 kB)
• NN: Hessian plaque of honor for the rescue of the service. Retired HAWK Professor Dr. Wedig Kausch-Blecken awarded by Schmeling (press release with photo)
• 2nd half of the page: Professor Dr. Wedig Kausch-Blecken from Schmeling - 85 years old - specialist in service tree and service tree

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hartmut Brondke: New dean in the “Forestry” department in Göttingen . In: Forstliche Mitteilungen , Volume 34, No. 7/1981, p. 134
2. ↑ ^{a b c} N.N .: Hessian plaque of honor for the service to rescue the service. Retired HAWK Professor Dr. Wedig Kausch-Blecken awarded by Schmeling ; Retrieved September 30, 2007
3. ↑ Peter Heckert: Cider
4. ↑ Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling: Resource management and the revitalization of endangered tree species - An example of the importance of the diploma theses (pdf; 1.0 MB) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.