Carl-Albrecht von Treuenfels

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Carl-Albrecht von Treuenfels (born November 7, 1938 in Schwerin ; † September 7, 2021 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer , book author , photographer , publicist and conservationist .

Life

Carl-Albrecht von Treuenfels , born on November 7, 1938 in Schwerin (Mecklenburg) as the son of his parents Carl and Ilse von Treuenfels, née Rengstorf, grew up with three siblings on a farm in western Mecklenburg after being expelled from his parents' family estate in 1946 Schleswig-Holstein district of the Duchy of Lauenburg . He had been married to Maria-Anna, née Freiin Besserer von Thalfingen , since 1993 , and was the father of a daughter and a son.

During his school days at the Lauenburg School of Academics in Ratzeburg (one of his class teachers there was the rowing trainer Karl Adam ) he began to write and take photos for regional newspapers. Reports on nature and its protection as well as photography of wild animals quickly became the focus of his journalistic work, which he also carried out during his military service at various locations and his legal training in Munich, Berlin and Aix-en-Provence (France) . Since 1969 von Treuenfels worked for eleven years in a large international advertising agency in Frankfurt am Main and later as a lawyer and notary. During his professional years he was always a freelancer for several magazines such as Geo , Merian , natur as well as daily and weekly newspapers with a focus on nature. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) alone published more than 460 articles with a good 500 photos of him between 1973 and 2019.

Until 2008 Treuenfels worked as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main. During this time and afterwards he made many trips around the world with extensive camera equipment and a camouflage tent in his luggage. He visited all continents, mostly several times, and undertook expeditions to the most remote areas. One focus of his interest was always the habitats of the 15 crane species living on earth, on which he wrote three of his eleven books (total print run of over 200,000 copies) and numerous articles. One of the many highlights of his nature experiences was the close encounter with a giant panda in the Chinese bamboo forest.

Since his youth he has been interested and committed to nature conservation. Initially only as a member of a few associations, he began working for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in the early 1970s, the nature conservation organization WWF ( World Wide Fund for Nature , initially known as the World Wildlife Fund - until today in the USA and Canada the valid designation) to advise and support. In 1981 he was elected to the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of WWF Germany . From the beginning of 1990 to the end of November 2004, he was its chairman and president. During this time he was temporarily a member of the Board of Trustees (Board) of WWF International, based in Gland (Switzerland) and various responsible for worldwide projects committees.

His commitment to the cranes and their protection (among other things, he was co-founder of the working group "Crane Protection Germany" after the German reunification), put on his own agricultural areas in addition to new planting of wall hedges (Knicks), different breeding biotopes for the big birds and reported again and again about the worldwide efforts to preserve their habitats and migration routes) led to an appointment to the Board of Directors of the International Crane Foundation (ICF) based in Baraboo , Wisconsin (USA). There he was involved as Director Emeritus until his death .

In 2008, Carl-Albrecht von Treuenfels, together with his wife and three friends, initiated and founded the Wetlands Foundation , based in Horst near Mölln in Schleswig-Holstein , in the Duchy of Lauenburg district. Since then he has been its chairman. His homeland is inter alia. This can also be seen from the fact that he was a member of the board of the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation based in Mölln for many years . Another honorary position, the patronage of the sea eagle protection in Schleswig-Holstein, he had given up for reasons of age in the spring of 2019 after more than 20 years.

Fonts (selection)

  • Photographing and filming game and birds . Paul Parey Verlag, Hamburg 1968 (3rd expanded edition 1979).
  • Watched the animals . Thiemig, Munich 1969 (2nd edition 1973).
  • As long as they are still alive . Munich 1973.
  • Game Farming: Game for slaughter . In: GEO-Magazin , 12/1978, pp. 38–58.
  • They all need living space . Hamburg 1987.
  • Adventure nature conservation in Germany . Hoffmann and Campe, 1984, 2nd edition 1986.
  • For our nature . Hamburg 1986.
  • Among pandas and penguins . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1994, 2nd edition 1996.
  • Cranes - birds of happiness . Hamburg 1989 (greatly expanded new edition 1998).
  • Animal worlds . Munich 2001.
  • Magic of the cranes . Knesebeck, Munich 2005, 2nd edition 2006.,
    • French edition: Grues . Paris 2005.
    • English-American edition: The Magic of Cranes . New York 2006.
  • Articles, editing and forewords in more than 20 books.
  • I shot a woodpecker: this is how I became a bird conservationist . ( RiffReporter - flight attendant).

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see conservationist Carl Albrecht von Treuenfels is dead
  2. ↑ Alfons Kaiser , A Life for Nature , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 8, 2021
  3. ↑ Environmental foundations introduce themselves (PDF) Federal Association of German Foundations. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ The committees . Wetlands Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Treuenfels, Carl-Albrecht von
SHORT DESCRIPTION German lawyer, author, photographer, publicist and conservationist
BIRTH DATE November 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2021