Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff

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Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff (right) and Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff on the 150th anniversary of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's death in 1998 in Meersburg

Bernd Freiherr von Droste-Hulshoff (* 17th September 1938 in Essen ) is the founding director of the UNESCO - World Heritage Center , formerly Assistant Director-General (ADG) of UNESCO and a German forest scientist .

Live and act

family

Bernd Aegidius Heinrich Hubertus Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff is the son of the later Oberlandesforstmeister Mariano von Droste zu Hülshoff and Sibylle Iltgen and grew up in Betzdorf , Haus Junkernthal ( churches ) and Adenau . He is a grandson of Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff and the older brother of Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff . Bernd Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff is widowed and has two children, Felicitas and Tassilo von Droste zu Hülshoff.

Training and professional activity in Germany

In 1957 Droste zu Hülshoff passed his Abitur at the Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg . He then completed a year of practical training at the Mayen Forestry Office and began studying forest sciences in 1958 at the Forestry Faculty of the University of Göttingen in Hann. Münden , where he joined the Rheno-Guestfalia Forest Academic Association in the CV and MC , which he continued in 1959 in Vienna and from 1960 at the University of Munich . During the semester break in 1958 he worked as an intern (raftsman) in Joensuu ( Finland ), in 1959 in Düzce , Ayancık and Antalya ( Turkey ) and in 1960 in Söderfors, ( Sweden ). In 1961 he received a scholarship for one academic year at the forestry faculty of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and participated in large animal research in the Kruger National Park . In 1963 he passed his exams as a qualified forest manager. After his legal clerkship , which he completed - interrupted by a stay at the Commonwealth Forestry Institute of the University of Oxford - in the Wittlich and Niederlahnstein forest offices , he became a forest assessor in 1966 .

Droste zu Hülshoff entered the higher forest service of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and worked as a forest assessor for the district government in Trier . In 1969 he was promoted to forest master, but continued his work as a research assistant at the Institute for Forest Policy and Forest Management in Munich, with a research assignment that also included research trips to North America . From 1967 to 1972 he headed a forest ecology research project at the political science faculty of the University of Munich under Ernst Assmann . In 1967 he took part in the first German research expedition in the Negev desert in Israel . In 1968 he visited ecological research institutions in the USA . In 1969 he received his doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Munich as Dr. oec. publ. on a topic of forest ecology and received the university research award. In 1972 he became an academic senior counselor and forest master.

Acting as a UNESCO official

German version of the World Heritage emblem : the UNESCO World Heritage Center was founded in 1992 by Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff

In 1973 he moved to Paris and became “first officer” in the Department of Ecological Sciences at UNESCO . From 1977 he was also secretary for the world natural heritage . In 1978 he was promoted to "Senior officer" and in 1984 director of the "Ecological Sciences" department of UNESCO and secretary of the international ecological research program Man and the Biosphere (MAB). In 1985 the Federal Environment Agency appointed him scientific director. In 1989 he was also the "publishing director" of the multilingual journal Nature & Resources .

In 1992, at his suggestion, the previously separate and overburdened secretariats for the World Natural Heritage and World Cultural Heritage were merged and staffed by UNESCO Director General Federico Mayor . He became the founding director of the new, world-renowned World Heritage Center (WHC) and Secretary General of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, publisher of the quarterly publication world heritage review , in 1995 senior director at the Federal Environment Agency and in 1998 assistant general director (ADG) of UNESCO. During this time he worked on the protection of numerous World Heritage projects in the fields of education, science and culture and was involved in the establishment of decentralized UNESCO commissions and offices as well as non-governmental organizations . In 1999, when he reached the age limit, he retired and became an advisor to the Director General of UNESCO.

Working as an international expert

Afterwards Droste zu Hülshoff, who works in English, French, Spanish and German, was an expert, advisor and mediator for UNESCO and the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) on issues relating to the protection of natural and cultural assets and also exercised this function for the EU Commission and the World Bank . He advised numerous UNESCO member states (e.g. Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Guyana , Venezuela ) and international organizations, as well as Deutsche Umwelthilfe and GTZ in Germany, and traveled to more than 100 countries, often as a team leader to review the status of world heritage sites. His projects included B. 1999 the identification of potential world heritage sites in South Africa , 1999–2000 the protection of the cultural heritage of Macau ( China ), 1999–2002 the preparatory work for the nomination of the pilgrimage routes of the Kii Peninsula ( Japan ) for world heritage. In 2003 he took part in the German Sahara expedition to Chad in preparation for the nomination for the World Heritage Site of the Ounianga District Lake and the rock paintings in the Ennedi Massif , and from 2003-2004 he took on the conflict mediation for oil and gas extraction in the vicinity of the Curonian Spit World Heritage Area ( Lithuania / Russian Federation ). In 2005–2006 he compiled the nomination dossier for the World Heritage Cultural Landscape Upper Middle Rhine Valley , in 2007 he worked on the protection of the World Heritage Galapagos Islands in view of the development of tourism, in 2008 he carried out preparatory work for the World Heritage nomination of the wine-growing cultural landscapes in South Africa, from 2010–2011 he worked on behalf of the government of Jordan a strategic development plan for the world cultural heritage Petra (Jordan) . In 2011–2013 he evaluated the status of cultural property protection in Crimea ( Ukraine ) on behalf of the EU .

Teaching and founding activity

Droste zu Hülshoff was visiting professor at the Brandenburg University of Technology from 1999 to 2003 and honorary professor for the postgraduate master’s course “Protection of European Cultural Assets” at the Collegium Polonicum of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) from 2002 to 2014 . In 2009 he was a university lecturer at both Beida and Tsinghua University in Beijing , China. In 2010 he trained architects and urban planners in Sanaa , Yemen. He is co-founder of the Japanese environmental research institute JISE , the international organization des Villes et du Patrimoine Mondial (OVPM) based in Quebec , the non-governmental organization Insula and the Hornemann Institute . Droste zu Hülshoff is also a member of several international organizations, such as the IUCN's Commission of Parks and Protected Areas .

literature

  • Waldtraud Holtz-Honig: The family's first man of the world - Bernd Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff. A life for ecology and world heritage , 2016.
  • Wilderich from Droste to Hülshoff : 900 years of Droste to Hülshoff . Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2018, ISBN 978-3-936509-16-8

Honors

Publications (selection)

As an author, Droste zu Hülshoff published more than 200 scientific articles in books and magazines. The thematic focus is on ecology , international nature and monument protection .

  • Structure and biomass of a spruce stand based on a dimensional analysis of above-ground tree organs , dissertation, Munich 1969
  • as publisher: Bibliography of the recreational function of the forest , Department for Forest Policy and Forest History of the Munich Forest Research Institute, Munich 1972
  • with Peter Bartelheimer: Opportunities for cooperation between forestry and timber industry. A model concept for the optimization of added value . Forest Research Institute Munich, Munich 1975
  • The UNESCO Center for the Conservation of the Human Heritage , Spectrum of Science, Vol. 11, 1992
  • as Ed .: Cultural Landscapes of Universal Value: Components of a Global Strategy , G. Fischer, Jena, Stuttgart and New York, and VCH Publishing, Deerfield Beach, Florida 1995 ( ISBN 3-334-61022-5 and ISBN 1-56081 -434-9 )
  • with B. Mayerhofer: Cultural and Natural Assets of the World: Threat and Protection. In: “Spectrum of Science”, Jena, Stuttgart, 1995
  • with H. Plachter, M. Rössler: Cultural Landscapes of Universal Value - Components for a Global Strategy. G. Fischer, 1995
  • with M. Rössler, S. Tichen: Linking nature and culture , in "Report of the Global Strategy Natural and Cultural Heritage Expert Meeting", Amsterdam, 1998
  • A Gift from the Past to the Future, 60 Years of Science at UNESCO , UNESCO Publishing, Paris, 2006
  • A group of jewels: UNESCO Pearls on the Elbe , German Environmental Aid, Lebendige Elbe, Elbe-Forum documentation, 2006
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site: “Qualitative growth with the help of external bodies” , in “Brand Technology Yearbook”, Frankfurt 2008/2009
  • La mise en oeuvre de la convention - de la théorie à la pratique (1981-2000) in "Patrimoine Mondiale" (numéro spécial "Patrimoine mondial de la Fédération de Russie), 2012
  • World Heritage and globalization: UNESCO's contribution to the development of global ethics in: Community development through World Heritage (World Heritage papers 31, UNESCO 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser. Vol. XVII, Volume 107 of the complete series, 1994.
  2. ↑ a b c Waldraut Holtz-Honig: "The family's first global citizen - Bernd Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff. A life for ecology and world heritage", Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2016, p. 189 f.
  3. ↑ Structure and biomass of a spruce stand on the basis of a dimensional analysis of above-ground tree organs, dissertation, Munich 1969
  4. ^ As editor: Bibliography of the recreational function of the forest, Department for Forest Policy and Forest History of the Munich Forest Research Institute, Munich 1972
  5. ↑ The UNESCO Center for the Conservation of the Human Heritage, Spectrum of Science, Vol. 11, 1992
  6. ↑ World Heritage and globalization: UNESCO's contribution to the development of global ethics in: Community development through World Heritage (World Heritage papers 31, UNESCO 2012)
  7. ↑ a b c d Waldraut Holtz-Honig: The first world citizen of the family - Bernd Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff. A life for ecology and world heritage. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2016, p. 138
  8. ↑ a b c d Waldraut Holtz-Honig: The first world citizen of the family - Bernd Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff. A life for ecology and world heritage. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2016, p. 115
  9. ↑ Waldraut Holtz honey: The first world citizen of the family - Bernd Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff. A life for ecology and world heritage. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2016, p. 137
personal data
SURNAME Droste zu Hülshoff, Bernd von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Droste zu Hülshoff, Bernd Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist, Director General of Unesco
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH eat