Antonio Brack Egg

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Antonio José Brack Egg (2010)

Antonio José Brack Egg (born June 3, 1940 in the district of Villa Rica , Pasco , † December 30, 2014 in Lima ) was a Peruvian agronomist , ecologist and researcher on biodiversity . Between 2008 and 2011, Brack Egg was Peru's first environment minister.

biography

Antonio Brack Egg was born on June 3, 1940 in the Villa Rica District, Oxapampa Province , Pasco Region. He is a descendant of the Silzer emigrant family Egg, his mother comes from Pozuzo , his father was German. He received his secondary education in biology and chemistry at the Colegio de la Inmaculada in Lima , graduated in 1963 as Profesor de Educación Secundaria , and in 1973 Brack received his doctorate at the University of Würzburg .

After his return to Peru, Antonio Brack worked in the Dirección General Forestal of the Ministry of Agriculture and was committed to the vicuña population. He acted as a consultant to the organizations PNUD , FAO , USAID and GTZ and others. He published his findings in numerous books and articles and as a participant in the television series La Buena Tierra on TV Perú . Brack Egg worked at various universities in Peru and Bolivia , including the Universidad ESAN , Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina , Universidad de San Martín de Porres and the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés , and was also involved as a coordinator in numerous projects on biodiversity in Latin America .

After the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment was created on May 13, 2008 with the support of Germany, Brack was nominated as minister and appointed on October 14, 2008 by President Alan García Pérez .

As environment minister, Antonio Brack Egg fought illegal gold mining in the tropical rainforest and also called for the military to be deployed. He advocated the creation of a market for emission rights that Peru should sell to industrialized countries in order to make environmental protection more lucrative. In addition to the activities of the internationally heavily criticized mining companies such as Doe Run , Brack wanted to concentrate on the informal mining sector and, above all, on the still largely unregulated sewage and waste disposal, which for him represented the most serious environmental problems in Peru.

When the government changed on July 28, 2011, Ricardo Giesecke Sara-Lafosse took over the post of Peruvian Environment Minister.

Awards

Antonio Brack Egg received the Premio Nacional del Medio Ambiente Barbara D'Achille in 1996 and the Esteban Campodónico por servicios a la sociedad peruana award in 2004 . Brack Egg was nominated for the Prince of Asturias Prize 2009 in the Eintracht category. Brack Egg was awarded the Grand Cross of the Peruvian Order al Mérito por Servicios Distinguidos . The taxa Phrynopus brackii and Phrygilus alaudinus bracki were named after him.

Works

  • Desarrollo sostenido de la selva: un manual técnico para promotores y extensionistas Perú (1990).
  • La sierra del Perú: pobreza y posibilidades (1994).
  • Amazonia: desarrollo y sustentabilidad (1994–1995).
  • El ambiente en que vivimos (1975).
  • Gran geografía del Perú: naturaleza y hombre (1996).
  • Kuntursuyu: el territorio del condor (1996).
  • Uturunkusuyo: el territorio del jaguar (1996).
  • Pobreza y manejo adecuado de los recursos en la Amazonía peruana: respuesta (1997).
  • Amazonia peruana comunidades indígenas, conocimientos y tierras tituladas: atlas y base de datos (1997).
  • Dinámicas territoriales: afirmación de las ciudades intermedias y surgimiento de los espacios locales (1999).
  • Diccionario enciclopédico de las plantas útiles del Perú (1999).
  • Biodiversidad y ambiente en el Perú (2000).
  • El medio ambiente en el Perú (2000).
  • Ecología del Perú (2000).
  • Perú maravilloso (2002).
  • Legado del Perú andino (2002).
  • Perú: diez mil años de domesticación - plantas y animales domésticados - láminas didácticas (2003).
  • Perú: diez mil años de domesticación (2003).
  • Perú: País de bosques (incluyen fotografías hechas por el autor) (2009)

Web links

Commons : Antonio Brack Egg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonio Brack, exministro del Ambiente, falleció a los 74 años
  2. ↑ Tyrolean emigrants from Peru celebrate their anniversary , tyrol. orf.at on July 24, 2009
  3. ↑ Austrian-German colony in Peru celebrates anniversary , Reisenews-online.de, July 30, 2009
  4. ↑ a b Erwin Dopf: Antonio Brack. Peru's Minister of the Environment of German descent ( Memento from August 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), peru-spiegel.de
  5. ↑ Dissertation The head of Rhynchites auratus Scop. (Curculionidae): a construction morphological study; with a contribution to brood care behavior. (1973) ( Memento of July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on scientificcommons.org
  6. ↑ a b c biography on minam.gob.pe
  7. ↑ a b curriculum vitae ( memento from December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on munisanborja .gob.pe
  8. ↑ Interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 14, 2010, p. 25
  9. ↑ “The environmental activists make it easy for themselves” , interview with Antonio Brack in Jungle World from January 6, 2011
predecessor Office successor
- Environment Minister of Peru
May 16, 2008–28. July 2011 		Ricardo Giesecke Sara-Lafosse
personal data
SURNAME Brack Egg, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brack Egg, Antonio José (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian agronomist and ecologist, Peruvian Environment Minister (2008-2011)
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Villa Rica District , Pasco
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2014
Place of death Lima , Peru