Hubert Weinzierl

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Hubert Weinzierl (left) with Hubert Weiger , 1994

Hubert Weinzierl (born December 3, 1935 in Ingolstadt ) is a German nature and environmental protectionist . Weinzierl has been involved in the ecological movement for five decades and is considered to be the figure of integration between “classic nature conservation and modern environmental policy ” in Germany.

Life

The son of the entrepreneur Paul Weinzierl and his wife Thekla (nee Waldherr) attended the Reuchlin-Gymnasium and studied forest science at the University of Munich . He completed this course in 1958 as a qualified forest manager. This was followed by a legal clerkship at the Bavarian State Forestry Administration and a degree in practical agriculture . Since then he has been working as an entrepreneur as well as a farmer, forest manager and pond manager . Weinzierl himself was an active hunter due to his work as a forester and was also a co-initiator of the Ökologische Jagdverein Bayern (ÖJV Bayern) and participant in its founding meeting in Munich's Hofbräuhaus on Hubertus Day in 1988.

Active in the nature conservation movement since 1953, Weinzierl was appointed to the Presidium of the Deutscher Naturschutzring e. V. (DNR) appointed. From 1965 to 1972 he was a voluntary government commissioner for nature conservation in Lower Bavaria . From 1969 to 2002 he was chairman of the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern . With Weinzierl came the change in the Bund Naturschutz from an apolitical and rather sociable association to a nature conservation and environmental policy interest group, as well as the nationwide expansion to the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), of which he was Chairman from 1983 to 1998.

As a special representative of the Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR), he organized the European Nature Conservation Year in 1970 .

As a member of the German delegation, he took part in the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 and ten years later in the Sustainability Summit in Johannesburg. From December 2000 to 2012 he was President of DNR, since 2001 he has been a member of the Council for Sustainable Development of the Federal Government and since March 2005 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU).

Today the farmer and forester lives with his wife, the Catholic theologian Beate Seitz-Weinzierl, in Wiesenfelden in Lower Bavaria , where both have set up an environmental education center. Weinzierl: "My tasks keep pushing me to Berlin and to negotiating tables, but my soul lives in the Bavarian Forest , where my wife and I have our home together with many animals and draw strength."

There were clashes between Weinzierl and his successor as chairman of the federal nature Hubert Weiger ". The beautiful spiritual eco Pioneer followed the robust Ökofunktionär Weigersdorf ... The ratio Weinzierl his successor is on the rocks" As a result of the clashes, the Environment Information Center on will lock Wiesenfelden Weinzierl private and no longer operated by the educational institute of the Federation of Nature Conservation.

In 2015 Weinzierl became Honorary President of the newly founded Association for Landscape Management and Species Protection in Bavaria (VLAB).

honors and awards

Quotes

"The death of the forests will change our countries more than the Second World War."

“When a shipping canal through a gem of German cultural landscapes, through the Altmühltal, was to be built in the 1970s, there was a bitter dispute between nature conservationists and those who believe in progress (...) And now wind power (...) It must not be us To reveal the heart of our homeland, which we previously defended for decades. "

Fonts

  • 1985: Nothing happened. A German environmental balance sheet. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-466-11060-2 .
  • 1991: Ecological offensive. Environmental policy in the 90s. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-05552-7 .
  • 1993: The green conscience. Self-image and strategies of nature conservation. 221 pages. Weitbrecht publishing house, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-522713605 .
  • 2006: The fairy herb goes out quietly. Poems. 64 pages with pictures by Rita Mühlbauer. SüdOst-Verlag, Waldkirchen 2006, ISBN 3-896821431 .
  • 2008: Between the hen house and the Reichstag. Memories. 295 pages with numerous illustrations. MZ-Buchverlag, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 3-93486337X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin congratulates Hubert Weinzierl on his election as DNR President BMU on December 9, 2000
  2. ↑ Heribert Kalchreuter: The thing with the hunt . Kosmos, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-440-15205-8 , example Ravenvögel: "So the then still practicing conservationist and hunter and today's President of the DNR, Hubert Weinzierl, had his findings as instructions for the design of hunting grounds (Weinzierl 1968) shown as follows: "
  3. ↑ Hubert Weinzierl for the 75th In: jagderleben.de. March 7, 2017, archived from the original on September 17, 2019 ; accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Kornder: Impressions from the festive event - Ökologischer Jagdverband Bayern. In: Ökologischer Jagdverein Bayern e. V. Accessed November 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Hubert Weinzierl on his 70th birthday environmental protection NEWS from December 5, 2005
  6. ↑ Georg Etscheit: Good versus good , in: Ders. (Ed.): Sacrificed landscapes. How the energy transition is destroying our environment. Munich (2016), pp. 16–26, here p. 21.
  7. ↑ H. Weinzierl becomes honorary president of the VLAB (2015) Association site: Landschaft-artenschutz.de
  8. ↑ Buried the forest dieback , In: Novo , 79, p. 16 ff.
  9. ↑ H. Weinzierl: The limits of compromises. In: G. Etscheit (Ed.): Sacrificed landscapes. How the energy transition is destroying our environment . Munich 2016, p. 317.
  10. ↑ Weinzierl 1985 (environmental balance sheet) - 230 pages with 31 caricatures.
  11. ↑ Weinzierl 1991 (Offensive) - 190 pages with 30 graphics.
personal data
SURNAME Weinzierl, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conservationist and environmentalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt