Clemens Dirscherl

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Clemens Dirscherl (born October 24, 1958 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is an agricultural and nutritional sociologist. From 2005 to July 2018 he was council representative of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) for agrarian-social issues. Since February 2018 he has been responsible for animal welfare and sustainability at Kaufland-Fleischwaren.

Life

Clemens Dirscherl attended the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Ludwigshafen and after graduating from high school studied sociology, political science, economics and geography in Mainz , Vienna and Freiburg im Breisgau . He graduated in 1984 with a Magister Artium in Social Economics. In 1988 he did his doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with an agricultural sociological study on agriculture in vertical integration to become a Dr. phil.

From 1984 to 1991 he worked as a research assistant in agricultural and nutritional research at the University of Freiburg and the TU Berlin . From 1991 to 2017 Dirscherl was the managing director of the Evangelical Farmers' Association and chief agricultural officer of the Württemberg regional church . In 2005 he was appointed council representative for agro-social issues with responsibility for agriculture, food and rural areas. The contract was extended in 2010 and 2016.

As EKD agricultural representative, he represented the Protestant Church in various committees, including a. the German Animal Welfare Commission, the Competence Group Animal Welfare of the BMEL, the Advisory Board of the Animal Welfare Label and as chairman of the project group "Sustainable Consumption of the Ministry of Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg" and the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural Social Society. Since 1997 he has been a member of the board of the Evangelical Rural Services in the EKD (EDL), from 2000 to 2005 as chairman. As a member of the EKD Social Chamber and the EKD Chamber for Sustainable Development, he prepared statements on agricultural and food policy issues from an ethical perspective, for example on the topics of green genetic engineering, renewable raw materials, energetic use of grain, the reform of European agricultural policy, for example Change in food culture and animal husbandry. He was co-author of the memorandum Reorientation for sustainable agriculture .

Fonts

  • Rural freedom and co-operative coordination. Studies on agriculture in vertical integration . Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-8244-4016-4 .
  • “… Sowing and reaping should not cease” (Gen 8:22). A practical book on the added value of sustainable agriculture . Ed. Clearing House Church and Environment (Beatrice van Saan-Klein, Clemens Dirscherl, Markus Vogt). Don Bosco, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7698-1453-3 .
  • Agricultural business ethics. In: K.-M. Brunner, GU Schönberger (ed.): Sustainability and nutrition. Production-trade-consumption. Campus-Verlag Frankfurt, New York 2006, pp. 67–92.
  • Agriculture as a "life economy". In: DLG (Hrsg.): Using agricultural potential - a challenge for farmers and society. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 231–248.
  • Agriculture: A Church Issue . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-579-01639-9 .
  • Meat consumption and animal husbandry in the current socio-ethical debate . In: Reports on Agriculture. Journal for Agricultural Policy and Agriculture , Volume 91, Issue 3 ( online ).
  • Eat animals? - Ethical lines of conflict in relation to modern animal husbandry . In: Hirschfelder / Ploeger / Rückert-John / Schönberger (eds.): What humans are allowed to eat. Economic coercion, ecological conscience and global conflicts . Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 315–331.
  • Social and psychological consequences of industrialized agriculture: Between bitterness and adaptation . In: Fit for the future - adjusting screws for a real agricultural turnaround , political ecology 03 - 2018, oekom Verlag.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the Church to Kaufland. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Clemens Dirscherl now works for Kaufland. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Dirscherl von Aigner appointed to the animal welfare commission. August 7, 2018, accessed April 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Competence Group Animal Welfare accompanies the Animal Welfare Initiative. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Statements Advisory Board. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ Südwest Presse Online -dienste GmbH: Waldenburg: Sociologist thinks about agriculture and the church . In: swp.de . January 11, 2012 ( swp.de [accessed August 20, 2018]).
  7. ↑ EKD Church Office, Communication: Evangelical Church in Germany. December 2, 2017, accessed August 20, 2018 .
  8. ^ Clemens Dirscherl and Jan Grossarth on agribusiness. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Guidelines for a multifunctional and sustainable agriculture. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  10. ↑ oekom verlag GmbH- www.oekom.de: Fit for the future - political ecology 03 - 2018 | oekom verlag GmbH. Retrieved October 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dirscherl, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein