Bund Naturschutz in Bayern

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Federation of Nature Conservation in Bavaria
(BN)
logo
legal form Registered association
founding June 26, 1913
Seat Munich
Office regensburg
purpose Nature and environmental protection
Chair Richard Mergner
Managing directors Peter Rottner
sales 15,100,000 euros (2018)
Volunteers 6400 (2018)
Members 236,073 members and sponsors (2018)
Website www.bund-naturschutz.de
Hubert Weinzierl (left, chairman from 1969 to 2002) and Hubert Weiger (chairman from 2002 to 2018), 1994

The Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e. V. , official spelling BUND Naturschutz in Bayern e. V. , often just called BN for short, is the largest environmental protection association in Bavaria and today the Bavarian regional association of the BUND . The association has around 230,000 members and sponsors. They are organized in a network of 76 district groups and 668 local groups in Bavaria. In addition, there are a number of children and youth groups that are looked after by their own youth organization, the JBN . According to § 3 of the Environmental Remedies Act (UmwRG) i. V. m. Section 63 (2) of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) is a recognized nature conservation association that operates nationwide in Bavaria and can be heard in the event of interventions in the natural balance .

According to the statutes, the aim of the BN is to “preserve and restore the natural foundations of life for people, animals and plants and biodiversity as a whole from further destruction.” It sees itself as “party-politically and denominationally independent.” The Bund Naturschutz is financed through donations as well as contributions from members and sponsors.

The Bund Naturschutz is run on a voluntary basis. Richard Mergner has been Chairman of the Bund Naturschutz since 2018 , succeeding Hubert Weiger .

history

At the initiative of the royal government councilor Reubold, representatives of the State Committee for Nature Conservation, the Bavarian Botanical Society, the Bavarian Ornithological Society and the Natural History Association met on June 26, 1913. They founded the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e. V. , under the "Protectorate of His Royal Highness", Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria . The first chairman was Carl Freiherr von Tubeuf . In 1916/17 the BN prevented a huge lion from being carved into the Falkensteiner Wall on Königssee as a "war memorial". In the 1930s, the association started buying protected areas. After the war, the association founded a "biological station" in Seeon and a teaching and research facility for nature conservation in Wartaweil . In the time of National Socialism , the managing director Luitpold Rueß (1905–1968) (son of BN co-founder Johann Rueß, 1869–1943) formulated 1940 as an association task “to maintain and design the home and nature clean and neat on the day , where the army of German soldiers of blood and war returns to the saved fatherland ”.

During the Nazi era, the BN worked with the Hitler Youth and the KdF organization. From 1934 to 1938 the association was led by Theodor Künkele, a NSDAP member. The Munich publisher Hans Hohenester, who was "Führer" of the BN from 1938 to 1945 and was a member of the BN's committee until the early 1960s, can be considered a National Socialist from the very beginning. Other committee members of the BN who were active well into the post-war period also belonged to the NSDAP, such as Otto Kraus from 1937 , Hans Stadler (Lower Franconia) and Max Dingler from 1922.

From 1958 to 1963 Alwin Seifert was BN chairman. Seifert had distinguished himself as a landscape architect and Reich landscape lawyer under the Nazi regime and stood for a right-wing to conservative orientation of the BN.

In 1966, the BN started the project for the reintroduction of beavers in Bavaria. Within the association, due to a very state-friendly association line of the 1st chairman Johann Mang, district president of Upper Bavaria , tensions arose and the establishment of an internal opposition, the so-called Green Action . In 1969 Hubert Weinzierl was elected 1st chairman. Under Weinzierl, the BN increasingly approached the emerging environmental initiatives in other federal states, it became politically more left and increasingly controversial issues in the public. In the 1960s and 70s, for example, the BN campaigned heavily against the construction of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal propagated by the CSU state government . The BN and Weinzierl also contributed significantly to the 1970 designation of the first German National Park, the Bavarian Forest . In Laufen , the BN founded a Bavarian Nature Conservation Academy, which was taken over by the State of Bavaria in 1974.

On July 20, 1975, the Association for Environment and Nature Conservation Germany was founded in Marktheidenfeld, Lower Franconia, with significant participation by the BN . This became one of the leading nature conservation associations in the Federal Republic, the BN is today its Bavarian state association.

After the fall of the inner-German border , the BN and the BUND started an initiative for a green belt to protect the biotopes created on the former border strip from destruction and to achieve a supra-regional network of biotopes . Since the 1990s, a focus of the BN has been the protest against the expansion of the Danube between Straubing and Vilshofen . In 2004 the BN unsuccessfully initiated the referendum for the love of the forest against the forest reform in Bavaria .

Environmental awards

The Association of Nature Conservation Bavaria has been awarding the Bavarian Nature Conservation Medal since 1970 for special commitment in the BUND and for the environment and nature conservation, so far, for example, to Hans Bibelriether , Peter Schütt or Hans-Jürgen Buchner . It should not be confused with the Bavarian State Medal for Services to the Environment or its predecessor, the Bavarian Environmental Medal , which is awarded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Health .

With the Karl Gayer Medal , the Association of Nature Conservation Bavaria - in coordination with the Working Group on Natural Forest Management - has been honoring people who have made a contribution to natural forest management since 1977. The highest award of the Bund Naturschutz is the Bavarian Nature Conservation Prize , which has been awarded since the early 1970s. Prize winners are, for example, Horst Stern , the couple Louise and Percy Schmeiser, and Edmund Lengfelder .

Chairperson

  • Carl Freiherr von Tubeuf , forest scientist (1913–1922)
  • Eduard von Reuter , civil engineer (1922–1934)
  • Theodor Künkele, forest scientist (1934–1938)
  • Hans Hohenester, printer owner and holder of the blood order (1938–1945)
  • Hans Walter Frickhinger, biologist and specialist writer (1946–1955)
  • Eduard Brenner, um. State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Culture (1955–1958)
  • Alwin Seifert , landscape architect (1958–1963)
  • Johann Mang , ehm. District President of Upper Bavaria (1963–1969)
  • Hubert Weinzierl , forest scientist (1969–2002)
  • Hubert Weiger , forest scientist (2002–2018)
  • Richard Mergner , graduate geographer (2018–)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statutes of BUND Nature Conservation.
  2. ↑ Annual Report 2018: Topics, Achievements, Finances. In: bund-naturschutz.de. BUND Nature Conservation in Bavaria e. V.;
  3. ↑ Richard Mergner is the new chairman of BUND Nature Conservation. In: BUND Naturschutz in Bayern e. V. Accessed May 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ecology from the right. Brown environmentalists to catch votes . Political Ecology, Volume 131, Oekom Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86581-286-5 , p. 19
  5. ^ Richard Hölzl: Nature conservation in Bavaria between the state and civil society. From the liberal awakening to integration into the Nazi regime, 1913 to 1945 . In: Bund Naturschutzforschung . tape 11 , 2013, p. 43-47 ( academia.edu ).