Cornelie Jäger

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Cornelie Jäger , b. Burger (born May 5, 1967 in Tübingen ) is a German veterinarian and author . From 2012 to 2017 she was the first state representative for animal welfare in Baden-Württemberg.

Life and work

Growing up in Tübingen as the second of five children, Jäger studied veterinary medicine in Gießen. After receiving her license to practice medicine as a veterinarian, she wrote a dissertation on a possible vaccine against the zoonosis Q fever as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . This was followed by several years as a research assistant at the Institute for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases of Animals in Giessen. In 2002, Jäger received the Eugen Grimminger Prize for Zoonosis Research for her scientific work on Q fever.

After the early death of her husband Konrad Jäger, Jäger sold the joint farm in Central Hesse and in 2003 switched to the veterinary administration of the state of Baden-Württemberg . After several positions in the veterinary administration in Baden-Württemberg and Thuringia, Jäger was appointed the first state commissioner for animal protection in Baden-Württemberg in 2012 and established an independent staff unit at the Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection in Stuttgart. The office of the state commissioner for animal protection is an institution with an advisory function - for example for the state government. It is also the contact point for practical questions from citizens on the subject of animal welfare as well as animal welfare associations and organizations that deal with animal welfare or animal husbandry.

In 2017, Jäger took a year off to devote herself to a non-fiction project in which she summarized the debates and experiences of her work as the state animal welfare officer. In 2018 she left the state service and has lived as a freelance reviewer and author in Stuttgart and Entringen since then .

Jäger has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 2005 . She is a member of the animal welfare committees of the Federal Chamber of Veterinarians and the State Chamber of Veterinarians in Baden-Württemberg.

Positions

As the state commissioner for animal welfare in Baden-Württemberg, Jäger was particularly committed to improving agricultural animal husbandry. In this context, in 2014 she started the debate about labeling meat in Germany analogous to the labeling of the origin of eggs . In the meantime, such a label has been taken up in a slightly modified form by food retailers.

The so-called shell model in Baden-Württemberg hunting law also goes back to an initiative by Jäger. As the first hunting law nationwide, the Baden-Württemberg Hunting and Wildlife Management Act assigns the animal species subject to hunting law to so-called management groups (use, development or protection management).

Among other things, Jäger advocates an animal welfare levy in order to finance the conversion of animal husbandry in Germany into a sustainable and socially acceptable component of agriculture.

Cornelie Jäger, who herself worked for a licensing authority for animal experiments , repeatedly took a critical position on the current legal situation, the pollution of laboratory animals and the, in her opinion, non-transparent admission criteria, for example in the dispute over experiments on primates at the Tübingen Center for Integrative Neurosciences . Together with scientists and ethicists who have joined forces in the “Animal Experiments in Research Forum”, she campaigned for the expansion of the subject of laboratory animal science.

In a TV program for the science magazine Planet Wissen 2016 on the subject of pet business , she said: “I wish that we perceive animals in their own way, that we do not reduce them to their usefulness or transfer our own fantasies to them. Every animal should be allowed to be what it is and treated with understanding and respect. "

Awards

  • 2002: Eugen Grimminger Prize of the "Grimminger Foundation for Zoonoses Research" for her scientific work on Coxiella burnetii , the causative agent of Q fever
  • 2017: Nieberle plaque from the Baden-Württemberg State Veterinary Association.

Publications (selection)

  • A recombinant protein from Coxiella burnetii as a candidate for a vaccine: Investigations into the occurrence of the omp gene and the biosynthesis, purification and antigenicity of the recombinant OMP protein. Dissertation, Giessen 1996.
  • Duties of the official veterinarian in monitoring the traffic of veterinary medicinal products. With Heinrich Bottermann . In: Eberhard Haunhorst (Hrsg.): Job description official veterinarian. Working in animal and consumer protection. Parey-Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8304-4105-2 , pp. 130 to 152.
  • Animal welfare law: An introduction to practical application from an official veterinarian's point of view ; Verlag R. Boorberg, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-415-05539-1 . Second updated edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-415-06257-3 .
  • The thing with the soup chicken. How agricultural animal husbandry is finally doing justice to everyone , Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8186-0369-4 .
  • The animal and the benefit: How agricultural animal husbandry finally does justice to everyone ; Publication series Federal Agency for Civic Education Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-7425-0385-5 .
  • with W. Hornauer and P. Reithmeier: Animal welfare law for farmers. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8186-0956-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Symposium2016 - Dr. Cornelie Jäger - Speaker - Deutscher-Wildgehege-Verband eV Accessed on July 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ via Cornelie Jäger - My website. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Green policy strengthens animal welfare in Baden-Württemberg. In: gruene-bw.de. April 2, 2012, accessed on July 21, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ The State Commissioner for Animal Welfare. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  5. ^ Annette Mohl: Pioneers in Baden-Württemberg. Less animal testing in the country , Stuttgarter Zeitung, August 29, 2015
  6. ↑ The State Commissioner for Animal Welfare. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ welt.de
  8. ↑ Dr. Julia Stubenbord becomes the new animal welfare officer. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Cornelie Jäger first state animal welfare officer , Schwäbisches Tagblatt , March 27, 2012.
  10. ↑ Committees / ad hoc working groups / Federal Veterinary Association. Accessed on July 22, 2019 .
  11. ^ Technical committees - Internet presence of the Baden-Württemberg State Veterinary Association. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Structure - Internet presence of the Baden-Württemberg State Veterinary Association. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  13. ^ Badische Zeitung: Animal protection should be recognizable in meat - Südwest - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  14. ↑ After the Neuland scandal, state-checked animal husbandry labeling is required. June 6, 2014, accessed July 23, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Meat labeling: in the future a compass for grocery stores. January 11, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Hunting Act Baden-Württemberg: Does it serve as a model for all of Germany? Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  17. ↑ management groups
  18. ↑ Hunting and Wildlife Management Act: A modern hunting law. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Frequently asked questions and answers. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Schwarzwälder Bote, Oberndorf Germany: Königsfeld: The soup chicken and animal protection - Black Forest Bote. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  21. ↑ The thing with the soup chicken. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Report on the CIN Panel Discussion "Animal Use in Biomedical Research: A Suppressed Necessity?" , CIN Uni Tübingen, 2013
  23. ↑ Ulrike Mix: Thirst for knowledge versus monkey thirst. Controversial animal experiments at the University of Tuebingen , Deutschlandfunk, February 8, 2013
  24. ↑ Laura Hennemann: Tierversuche. Less misery , DIE ZEIT No. 40/2012, Zeit Online September 27, 2012
  25. ↑ Guest in the studio: Dr. Cornelie Jäger , Planet Wissen, February 25, 2016
  26. ↑ via Cornelie Jäger - My website. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Cornelie Burger: A recombinant protein from Coxiella burnetii as a candidate for a vaccine: Investigations into the occurrence of the omp gene and the biosynthesis, purification and antigenicity of the recombinant OMP protein . ( dnb.de [accessed July 26, 2019]).
  28. ↑ Review in Spektrum.de, January 11, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Cornelie Jäger: The animal and the benefit | bpb. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Cornelie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burger, Cornelie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen