Michael Kilian from the Staufen forest district succeeds Karl-Ludwig Gerecke, who will retire at the end of the month.
The district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald receives a new district forest office manager. The incumbent Karl-Ludwig Gerecke is retiring and freeing up space for the previous head of the Staufen forest district, Michael Kilian. He will take up his new position in the District Forestry Office in Freiburg on November 1st.
The 61-year-old Kilian had been in Staufen since 2016. He studied forest science in Freiburg. He then worked in various functions in the forestry sector in St. Blasien, Kenzingen, Tübingen and Freiburg. “For me this is an opportunity for a very attractive position,” says Kilian when asked by BZ. He sees this as a consistent further development of his professional career. From his point of view, the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald offers one of the most attractive natural landscapes in the country with very different forests from the Rhine plain to the Feldberg. In the Upper Black Forest there is also a structure with a lot of private forest. From his point of view, there are numerous challenges in the coming years. The forest has to cope with the effects of climate change. This also requires forest conversion, which he wants to promote in the district. The restructuring of the forest districts and the associated personnel decisions also need to be accompanied. In addition, the wood sales point will be transferred to a cooperative, another task that is waiting for him.
It has not yet been decided who will be his successor in Staufen. The tender is running. Kilian hopes that the position will be filled by the end of the year. Because as long as this is not the case, he has to do both jobs.
He succeeds Ludwig Gerecke, who has headed the district forest office in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district since 2005. The 65-year-old also studied forest sciences in Freiburg. In the meantime he was also the head of the forestry department in Schluchsee. Gerecke is the nature conservation officer in the Black Forest. He, too, had recently repeatedly emphasized that the forest in the Black Forest will change and that more resistant tree species will be needed. The forest must ensure that the forest fulfills both its recreational and utilization function.
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