Carl A. Schenck
Georg Otto Carl Alwin Schenck ( born March 25, 1868 in Darmstadt, † May 16 1955 in Lindenfels, Odenwald ) was a German forest scientists.
Career
Schenck was born as the son of the Judicial Council, Carl Jacob Schenck and Schenck Olga. He laid in 1886 at the Polytechnic Institute in Darmstadt -leaving examination and studied from 1889 Cameralia and forestry sciences in Tübingen and Giessen. In 1895 he received his doctorate "summa cum laude" on the future of the German Oak Peel Forest.
In 1895 he traveled to the United States to take over the management of the estates of the entrepreneur George W. Vanderbilt in Biltmore. In 1898 he founded the first school of forestry in the country, the Biltmore Forest School, which he developed into a respected Forest Science Institute. After disagreements with Vanderbilt in 1909 he gave his position as forest managers on. 1913 his school was disbanded and he returned to Germany.
From 1916 to 1918 he was visiting professor of silviculture in Giessen. From 1923 to 1937 he was a visiting professor at the Forestry Faculty of the University of Montana in Missoula. During World War II he lived quietly in lime rock in the Odenwald.