Berthold Ribbentrop

Berthold Ribbentrop was a pioneering forester from Germany who worked in India with Sir Dietrich Brandis and others. He is said to have inspired Rudyard Kipling's character of Muller in In the Rukh, one of the earliest of his Jungle Book stories.

Berthold Ribbentrop was Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India from 1885. In 1900 he wrote Forestry in British India, in which he wrote that he was coming to the end of his career. He described the early lack of forestry expertise among the British administrators of India, and wrote