Background
He was the son of soldier and botanist Caesar Carl Hans Henkel (1839-1913).
He was the son of soldier and botanist Caesar Carl Hans Henkel (1839-1913).
He joined the Cape Forest Department in 1888, working in the Eastern Cape for several years. Chosen to attend the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper"s Hill, he received the College Diploma. After the war he was appointed Assistant Conservator of Forests in the Eastern Conservancy in 1905, and Conservator of Forests for Natal and Zululand in 1912.
In 1918, he became Chief of the Rhodesian Forest Service.
His father, Cäsar Carl Henkel, is commemorated in Podocarpus henkelii.