Silviculture

The forest science is concerned with the development and management of woods and forests and their history. Be integrated disciplines of natural, agricultural, social and economic sciences. As the founder of modern forest science applies Heinrich Cotta.

Subject of forestry is the management of forests, plantations and landscapes, to preserve an ecologically possible and socially desirable balance of values ​​over an appropriate spatial and temporal scale. The aim is to ensure wood as raw material for wood products, habitat for flora and fauna, clean drinking water, clean air, recreation, landscape and community protection, employment, attractive aesthetic landscapes and provide a sink for atmospheric carbon and sustainability. The ideal management of forest ecosystems receives the desired values ​​through the preservation and support of the necessary ecological processes and components.

Training

The Study of Forest Sciences is one of the last " generalist " courses - it includes disciplines of history to genetics. Classical graduate foresters were not only nationally, but also internationally asked if academically at elite U.S. universities or practically in forestry operations worldwide.

In Germany Faculties of Forestry exist at the following universities:

  • Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences of the Technical University of Dresden in Tharandt - founded in 1811 as a Forest Academy - oldest forestry faculty in Germany and second oldest in the world after St. Petersburg, founded in 1807,
  • Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau,
  • Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Georg-August -Universität Göttingen (after moving from Hann. Munden 1970/71, where it had been founded in 1868 as the Royal Prussian Academy of Forestry Hann Munden ) and
  • Study Faculty of Forest Science & Resource Management at the Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan ( Freising ).

In Austria there is at the University of Natural Resources and the Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences for a bachelor degree in forestry and a master's degree Forestry Science and an international master's degree Mountain Forestry.

In Switzerland, you could until the spring of 2007 at the ETH Zurich Forestry Science study ( Graduation as Dipl. - Forsting. ETH). During the implementation of the Bologna reforms ( Bachelor-/Master-System ) forestry science degree program with that of the Environmental Sciences ( Geo - ecology) has been merged. In the new bachelor's degree program is a two-semester recess " Forests and Landscape ," offered after four semesters of undergraduate studies. It builds a master's degree program with a major in (Major) " Forest and Landscape Management". The first graduates of the new course have left the ETH in summer 2008. Even though the title of the forestry engineer ETH disappears, the new Department of Environmental Sciences thus further ensures that competent forest specialists are trained at the ETH Zurich.

Significant forest scientists

The " forest classic"

  • Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764-1837)
  • Heinrich Cotta (1763-1844)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil, (1783-1859)
  • Carl Justus Heyer (1797-1856)
  • Johann Christian Hundeshagen (1783-1834)
  • Gottlob King (1779-1849)

Silviculture

  • Elias Landolt (1821-1896)
  • Karl Gayer (1822-1907)
  • Max Neumeister (1849-1929)
  • Alfred Möller (1860-1922)
  • Aldo Leopold (1878-1948)
  • Konrad Rubner (1886-1974)
  • John Blanckmeister (1898-1982)
  • Walter Schädelin (1908-1951)
  • Hans Leibundgut (1909-1993)
  • Helmut Schmidt -Vogt (1918-2008)
  • Hans Joachim Fröhlich (1923-2008)
  • Peter Burschel (1927-2013)
  • Harald Thomasius (* 1929)
  • Jürgen Huss ( b. 1937 )

Yield Science and Forest Management

  • Johann Friedrich Judeich (1828-1894)
  • Eilhard Wiedemann (1891-1950)
  • Manfred Näslund (1899-1988)
  • Reinhard Schober (1906-1998)
  • Bitterly Walter (1908-2008)
  • Horst Kramer ( * 1924)

Forestry Economics

  • Max Preßler (1815-1886)

Forest history, forest law, forest policy and conservation

  • Karl Dickel (1853-1920)
  • Hans Haus Rath (1866-1945)
  • Franz Heske (1892-1963)
  • Arnold Freiherr von Vietinghoff Riesch (1895-1962)
  • Julius Speer (1905-1984)
  • Karl Hasel (1909-2001)
  • Ekkehard Schwartz (1926-2005)
  • Peter Schütt (1926-2010)
  • Albrecht Milnik (* 1931)
  • Max Krott ( b. 1955 )

Soil Science and Land Evaluation

  • Heinrich August Father (1859-1930)
  • Gustav Adolf Krauss (1888-1968)
  • Hans- Friedrich Sachse (1890-1986)
  • Walter Wittich (1897-1977)
  • Willi Laatsch (1905-1997)
  • Hans Joachim Fiedler ( * 1927)
  • Heinz W. Zöttl (* 1927)
  • Karl -Eugen Rehfuess (* 1933)
  • Wolfgang Nebe ( b. 1934 )

Forest Zoology and entomology

Wildlife Biology

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