Berndt Heydemann

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Berndt Heydemann (born February 27, 1930 in Kiel ; † April 6, 2017 ) was a German biologist . He was professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and for several years Environment Minister of Schleswig-Holstein . He also appeared as an author of non-fiction books.

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After graduating from high school, Heydemann did practical training in horticulture. From 1948 he studied zoology , botany , biology , chemistry , physics and ecology and received his doctorate in 1953 on agro- ecological problems . From 1956 to 1962 he established the field of "Biological Coastal Research / Applied Ecology" at the Zoological Institute of Kiel University. In 1964 he completed his habilitation with the thesis The Development of Sea and Land - Field and Laboratory Experiments for the Adaptation of Organisms in the Ebb and Flow Area . Several research stays took him to France , Spain , Poland and Czechoslovakia . With the support of the Volkswagen Foundation , Heydemann was involved in setting up the research institute “Ecological Coastal Research” from 1964 to 1966. 1970 to 1988 he was director at the Biology Center at Kiel University. He was involved in nature conservation and in 1984 took over the provisional chairmanship of the German Federation for Bird Protection , on whose federal executive board he had sat for years.

Berndt Heydemann at the festive event "25 Years VHW"

Heydemann also gained extensive experience in university policy through his management activities, which at the same time formed the basis for his commitment at the federal level. Together with the federal management of the German Association of Civil Servants (dbb) in Bonn , he initiated the establishment of the University and Science Association (VHW). As a member of this top trade union dbb, the VHW has a say in collective bargaining issues and, in particular, a right to be heard . Therefore, the education ministers at federal and state level are obliged to include the VHW in their legislative processes and thus in their university policy. From 1973 to 1987 Heydemann was the first federal chairman of the VHW, and Reinhard Kuhnert was elected as his successor , who held this office until 1999. In 2003, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the association appointed Heydemann honorary chairman . At the same time, Heydemann founded the regional association of the VHW Schleswig-Holstein in 1973 and also took over its chairmanship.

After the SPD's electoral success in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1988 , Heydemann became a non-party member of Björn Engholm's cabinet as Minister for Nature, Environment and Regional Development . After he no longer received sufficient support in the next period of government under Heide Simonis , Heydemann resigned as a minister at the end of 1993 and worked again as a professor at the University of Kiel.

In 1998 he founded the Nieklitz Ecology and Ecotechnology Foundation (NICOL), the main project of which is the Future Center for People - Nature - Technology - Science (ZMTW) in Nieklitz (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). For this he received the environmental award of the Federal Environment Foundation in 2005 . After the ZMTW, despite funding of more than six million euros instead of the planned 200,000, only reached 12,000 visitors per year and, in the opinion of Agriculture Minister Till Backhaus, “did not achieve any useful scientific results”, no more funding was granted. At the beginning of 2013 it was announced that Heydemann was planning a new exhibition project in Schleswig-Holstein, which should also include exhibits from the ZMTW. However, this project did not succeed. The ZMTW was closed in October 2013.

Publications

  • Elementary art in nature. Form - color - function. With Jutta Müller-Karch. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1989, ISBN 978-3-529-05403-7 .
  • New biological atlas. Ecology of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1997, ISBN 3-529-05404-6 .
  • Ecology of beauty . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-5290-5424-2 .

Web links

Commons : Berndt Heydemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-Environment Minister Berndt Heydemann has died. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ Josef Arendes: Obituary notice of the federal chairman of the VHW for Professor Dr. Dr. hc Berndt Heydemann. In: vhw Mitteilungen, January 2017 - March 2017, Volume 44, Issue No. 1/2017, p. 33.
  3. ↑ Udo Rempe: On the death of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Berndt Heydemann - a personal obituary. In: vhw Mitteilungen, January 2017 - March 2017, Volume 44, Issue No. 1/2017, pp. 33–36.
  4. ↑ Professional: Berndt Heydemann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1993, pp. 300 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Peter Höver: Quarrel about expensive environmental center: Ex-Minister Heydemann fails in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - now he wants to go to Mölln . Ostholsteiner Anzeiger , January 11, 2013, p. 14.
  6. ↑ Dark future: Future Park Nieklitz is threatened with extinction. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 27, 2013. dpa report.
personal data
SURNAME Heydemann, Berndt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and politician (independent), Environment Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2017