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Wolfram Friedrich Wilhelm Pflug (born August 4, 1923 in Hohenkränig , Königsberg / Neumark district , today Krajnik Gorny , Poland ; † December 26, 2013 in Wilsede ) was a German landscape ecologist , engineering biologist , landscape architect and forest scientist . From 1965 to 1988 he held the chair for landscape ecology and landscape design at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen).

Live and act

Wolfram Pflug attended the Realgymnasium in Schwedt / Oder from 1934 to 1941 . As a volunteer, he joined the Navy in 1941 as an officer candidate (active) ( Crew V / 41 ). Among other things, he was in command of the outpost boat 5905 “Varanger” of the 59th outpost flotilla. On April 26, 1944, an escort led by plow (five merchant ships) south of Bodø was attacked by over 80 fighter planes of a British carrier association in the North Atlantic. He was badly wounded by a shot in the stomach. During his captivity in Norway in 1945/46, he was in command of the ship "Orion" (ex UJ 1702) of the German mine clearance service under the mine clearance chief Norway frigate captain Philipp. In 1946 he was released from British captivity in Hamburg . His last rank was first lieutenant at sea.

His motto when switching from the beloved navy to forest science: "The storm howls in the shrouds and stays of the ship's masts as in the branches and branches of the forest trees".

After his practical apprenticeship as a Forsteleve in the Langeloh Forestry Office in the Harburg district, he studied forest science at the Forest Academy in Hann. Münden . From 1952 to 1954 he worked for the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW) in the state association of Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1954 to 1965 as a consultant for landscape management at the Ministry of Agriculture, Viticulture and Forests of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Mainz . During this period he campaigned for the preservation, creation and maintenance of natural and near-natural landscape elements in the context of land consolidation, relocation of farms, road, water, mining and open-cast mines as well as making the Moselle navigable . His last rank was chief forester.

In 1965 he was appointed full professor and appointed to the newly created chair for landscape ecology and landscape design at the Faculty of Construction at RWTH Aachen University. He taught the students in the fields of architecture, urban planning, road, water and mining, surveying, biology and economics the connections between natural conditions and the effects of interventions in nature and the landscape. His research focus was the recording and processing of the properties of the natural balance in the form of landscape-ecological spatial units and their suitability for land use in regional, site management, local and specialist planning. Several model works testify to the application of his research results in the context of projects, including Hexbachtal im Ruhrgebiet (road planning 1977), Hambach (lignite opencast mining 1975), Aachen (urban planning 1978), Saar (expansion to Schifffahrtsstraße 1976/77), Ems near Rietberg (land consolidation, Hydraulic engineering 1980), Brandscheid / Eifel (land consolidation 1991). In addition, he wrote articles on the history of nature conservation and landscape management (including 1969, 1970 and 1998), on the question of the painting of buildings from the point of view of landscape design (with specialist colleagues in 1960) and contributed to the book on his home district of Königsberg / Neumark (1996).

After his retirement in 1988, Pflug remained scientifically active. In 1998 he was the editor of the extensive standard work of lignite opencast mining and recultivation. Landscape ecology - follow-up use - nature protection , which contained the sum of the experience gained in the recultivation of lignite mining. When the British military left the “Red Areas” in the Lüneburg Heath nature reserve (18 km²), which had been devastated by their tanks and other tracked vehicles, in his capacity as a member of the board of the Naturschutzpark eV association and most recently chairman of the “Red Areas” commission involved in planning the restoration of the heathen.

University professor em. Wolfram Pflug last lived in Heidedorf Wilsede , where he died on December 26, 2013.

Memberships

Professor Pflug was involved in numerous committees. From 1960 he was a corresponding member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning Hanover, was from 1969 to 1991 a member of the board of trustees for the European Prize for Land Care of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation in Basel, and in 1973 became a member of the German Council for Appointed state care , was chairman of the Society for Engineering Biology from 1980 to 1991, from 1990 to 1997 chairman of the Association of Archives and Museums for the History of Nature Conservation in Germany and from 1995 to 2003 member of the board of the Association of Nature Conservation Park.

Honors

• 1944 - EK II and EK I (Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class), war badges for mine search, submarine hunting and security associations, badge for wounded in black
• 1953 - Certificate of honor from the Rhineland-Palatinate regional association of the German Forest Protection Association
• 1970 - Culture Prize of the Rhenish Raiffeisen Banks
• 1988 - Gerd Grzella: The portrait: Prof. Wolfram Pflug . Klenkes - City magazine Aachen. 8/1988, p. 8
• 1993 - Hans-Joachim Einbrodt: A life with the environment and for the environment. Personal words on his 70th birthday to Univ.Prof.Dipl.Forstw. Wolfram Pflug Science and the Environment. 3-4 / 1993. pp. 163 and 164
• 1995 - Werner Mayser, Knut Limpert and Thomas Hintz: Professor Wolfram Pflug - 70 years of living nature conservation and landscape management . Society for engineering biology. Festschrift. Notices April 4, 1995. pp. 2-4
• 2000 - Albert Schmidt: Honor of Professor Pflug in the context of a symposium "Aspects of the history of nature conservation in Germany" . Nature Conservation History Foundation (Ed.). Waypoints. Contributions to the history of nature conservation. Plain text. Essen 2000. pp. 274-280
• 2000 - Honorary membership in the Society for Engineering Biology

Fonts (selection)

Standalone fonts

• Landscape maintenance, protective plantings, field wood cultivation: Instructions for planning, execution and maintenance (= manuals for landscape maintenance and field wood cultivation . Volume 1). Euting, Neuwied 1959; New edition 1961.
• Landscape ecology report on the planned open-cast lignite mine Hambach I. 2 volumes. Aachen 1975.
• Landscape ecology report on the planned building area in the Horn-Lehe-West area, Bremen. Aachen 1982.
• Courtyard trees: trees and bushes as elements of the cultural landscape and natural protection from the weather. Arrangement, inventory, examples. Borntraeger, Stuttgart 2012.
• 145 articles in specialist journals and specialist books

As a co-author

• W. Pflug, H. Birkigt, P. Brahe, M. Horbert, J. Voß, H. Wedeck and St. Wüst: Landscape planning expert opinion Aachen . City of Aachen (ed.). Aachen 1978. 239 pp.
• W. Pflug, G. Ruwenstroth, E. Stähr, K. Limpert, R. Regenstein and K. Schott: Hydraulic model planning Ems near Rietberg on the basis of ecological landscape . State Office for Agricultural Regulations North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.). Münster 1980. 115 pp.
• W. Pflug and H. Wedeck: On the importance of landscape ecological basics for planning . Buchwald / Engelhardt (Hrsg.): Manual for planning, design and protection of the environment. Vol. 3. BLV Munich, Vienna, Zurich. 1980. pp. 65-80. ISBN 3-405-12033-0
• W. Pflug, H. Ant, M. Horbert, H. Wedeck and coworkers: Landscape ecological and landscape design expert opinion on the Kalkar nuclear power . Essen / Aachen 1983. 288 pp.

As editor

• with Alfred Conrad Boettger: City and Landscape, Space and Time. Festschrift for Erich Kühn on the completion of his 65th year of life. Cologne 1969. In it: Wolfram Pflug: 200 years of land maintenance in Germany . Pp. 237-289
• Bank protection forest on rivers (= yearbook of the Society for Engineering Biology. Volume 1). Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-7828-1475-4
• Roots and stability of embankments and slopes (= yearbook of the Society for Engineering Biology. Volume 2). Aachen 1985, ISBN 3-925537-00-7
• Combating erosion in the high mountains (= yearbook of the Society for Engineering Biology. Volume 3). Aachen 1988, ISBN 3-925537-02-3
• together with Eva Hacker: River dikes and river dams, vegetation and stability (= yearbook of the Society for Engineering Biology. Volume 7). Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-9802634-4-4 . In it: Wolfram Pflug, Eckart Stähr: Forests on and on river dikes . Pp. 297-321.
• Open pit lignite mining and recultivation. Landscape ecology - reuse - nature conservation. Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-60092-2 .

As a processor

• Heimatkreis Königsberg / Neumark (Hrsg.): Kreis Königsberg / Neumark - memories of an East Brandenburg district . Editors: Hans Gottfried Bluhm, Wolfram Pflug, Burkhard Regenberg and Rudolf Herbert Tamm.

literature

• Foundation for the history of nature conservation (ed.): Waymarks. Contributions to the history of nature conservation. Commemorative publication for Wolfram Pflug. Publications of the Foundation for the History of Nature Conservation, Volume 1. (The contributions in the volume are presented at the symposium "Aspects of Nature Conservation History in Germany" in cooperation with the Alfred Toepfer Academy for Nature Conservation on the occasion of Wolfram Pflug's 75th birthday on June 6th and 7th 1998 in Wilsede, including: Wolfram Pflug: Against forgetting - landscape design and nature conservation in Germany before 1945 east of Oder and Neisse, shown in the former district of Königsberg / Neumark ) pp. 151–187. Klartext, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-868-8
• Wolfram Pflug , in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003. 19th edition. Volume II: K - Scho. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 2504
• Wolfram Pflug , in: WHO is WHO? The German WHO's WHO . XLVII edition 2008/09. Schmidt-Römhild. eat

Remaining work

Wolfram Pflug's estate can be found in the archive of the Nature Conservation History Foundation in Drachenburg Castle , Königswinter / Rhine.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfram Pflug in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography with photo at the German Council for Land Care

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in the Böhme-Zeitung of January 2, 2014, viewable under Ticket: 2014011210005301