Andre Baumann

Andre Baumann (born June 10, 1973 in Heidelberg ) is a German biologist . Since February 2020 he has been the federal representative of the state of Baden-Württemberg . Before that, he was State Secretary in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment .

education

After graduating from the Hebel high school in Schwetzingen in 1993 and completing community service in the NABU nature conservation station in Kranenburg, Baumann studied biology with a focus on nature conservation , ecology and botany at the Philipps University of Marburg . Following the successful completion in 2001, he was in 2005 at the University of Regensburg with a dissertation about the vegetation history of calcareous grassland on the Franconian Alb since the Bronze Age doctorate . The central result of his work is: Limestone grassland habitats have existed without interruption since the Bronze Age and are thus among the oldest existing cultural landscapes. The shepherding tradition that has lasted for centuries and millennia has therefore contributed significantly to the biodiversity of these habitats. Limestone grasslands and juniper heather are among the most biodiverse ecosystems in Central Europe.

Professional background

From 2006 to 2007 Baumann was a research associate, and in 2007 deputy head at the Institute for Agroecology and Biodiversity in Mannheim (IFAB). Baumann studied at the IFAB Mannheim u. a. worked in application-oriented research projects on agroecological issues. In 2007 he became a lecturer at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Heidelberg , and he also had a teaching position at the Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences for Forestry in Rottenburg.

Baumann was the founding chairman of both the NABU Group Schwetzingen and the NABU District Association Rhein-Neckar (today NABU District Association Rhein-Neckar-Odenwald). From 1995 to 2007 he was chairman of the NABU group Schwetzingen and from 1995 to 2007 chairman or board member of the NABU district association Rhein-Neckar-Odenwald. Since 2007 he has been chairman of the NABU regional association in Baden-Württemberg, and from 2008 until his appointment as State Secretary he held this position full-time. In the almost nine years as NABU state chairman, NABU was able to celebrate important successes, such as the establishment of landscape conservation associations, the increase in the nature conservation budget (doubling the annual budget), a strengthening of forest nature conservation , the greening of Baden-Württemberg's agri-environmental programs, the establishment of the Black Forest National Park and the Black Forest biosphere area and much more. The number of NABU members in Baden-Württemberg increased by around 20,000 to over 88,000 between 2008 and 2016. Baumann was a member of the Advisory Board of the Baden-Württemberg state government for sustainable development and a member of the Baden-Württemberg Forest and Wood Cluster.

Baumann has been a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party since 2001 . From May 2016 to the beginning of February 2020 he was Political State Secretary of the Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector. Since 2020, as State Secretary of the Baden-Württemberg state government, he has been the representative of the state of Baden-Württemberg at the federal level. He succeeded Volker Ratzmann in this position .

Private

Baumann was born in Heidelberg and grew up in Schwetzingen. He lives and still lives in Schwetzingen today.

Web links

• Andre Baumann on the Federal Council's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of lecturers on the website of the University of Forestry, accessed on May 12, 2016
2. ↑ Katja Bauroth: Compromises are part of it . Schwetzinger Zeitung, May 12, 2016, accessed on the same day
3. ↑ Authorized representative at the federal government: Dr. Andre Baumann. Accessed February 16, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Andre Baumann becomes the new head of the Baden-Württemberg state representation. Badische Zeitung , February 28, 2020, accessed on February 16, 2020 .