Dieter Knoch

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Dieter Knoch (born October 31, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German director of studies, biologist, conservationist and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit .

Life

Dieter Knoch was born in Berlin in 1936. He came to St. Blasien in 1941 when he was sent to Kinderland , where he graduated from the St. Blasien college in 1955 . At the University of Freiburg Knoch studied biology, chemistry and geography to become a teacher, where he passed his state examination with the title The forest societies and their geographical structure in the southeastern Black Forest . After that he was a grammar school teacher at the Goethe grammar school in Emmendingen until his retirement .

Knoch lives in Emmendingen.

Species and nature conservationists

Dieter Knoch is one of the pioneers of nature conservation and species protection in the southern Baden region. He is a mediator of nature conservation through lectures, mushroom exhibitions as well as plant and ornithological hikes. In numerous publications, Knoch has shown the natural history of the landscapes on the Upper Rhine , in the Black Forest and on the Baar and called for their protection.

As a high school student he was already concerned with the nature of the Black Forest , especially with ornithology . In 1954, at the age of 17, he was a volunteer ringer for the Radolfzell ornithological station . In 1959, together with other ornithologists, he founded the ornithology student council in the Baden Regional Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation , which has since become a separate association of NABU .

In addition to ornithology, Knoch has dealt particularly intensively with fungal science and is known in mycological specialist circles not only as a connoisseur of the veils (Cortinarius) far beyond his work in the Black Forest and the Rhine valley. In the immediate sphere of activity around Emmendingen, he became known as the founder of the mushroom advice Emmendingen , which he headed from 1967 to 2007. Around 1970 Knoch was a temporary training manager at the Black Forest mushroom teaching show in Hornberg and represented its founder Max Hetzel during this time.

In the 1980s, Knoch was involved in drawing up the Red List of Large Mushrooms in Baden-Württemberg , which in its second version from 1984 is still the basis for species protection today.

Even with the mushroom floristic mapping of Baden-Wuerttemberg, which reflected in the protection of species-standard work The United mushrooms Baden-Wuerttemberg found Knoch was instrumental as well as data for the basic works The birds of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the ferns and flowering plants of Baden-Wuerttemberg has contributed .

In September 1975 Knoch organized the 9th three-country mycological conference of the German Society for Mushroom Science in Emmendingen. At the one-week conference, at which German mushroom experts traditionally meet with members of the Swiss Association for Mushroom Science and the Austrian Mycological Society , there were lectures at the Goethe Gymnasium, but above all excursions to the mixed deciduous forests of the Emmendinger Vorbergzone, to the southern Black Forest ( Hinterzartener Moor , Bannwald Conventwald), the oak-hornbeam forests of the Freiburg Bay and in the Rhine meadows near Weisweil .

However, Knoch is not only active in the protection of species, particularly in the case of birds and fungi, he never lost sight of the overriding protection of biotopes . In 1973, as the initiator of the nature trail "All around the Horbacher Moor", he developed the concept for this moor area and in the late 1980s he worked for the establishment of the St. Blasien district museum , where he was responsible for the conception and design of the "Vegetation-Wildlife" department -Landschaft-Naturschutz "has taken over. His work as a teacher is remarkable, where he created a school biotope on the grounds of the grammar school in 1984. In 1986 he made significant contributions to the biotope exhibition of the district of Emmendingen, which was held on the premises of the Hochburg agricultural school near Emmendingen.

From 1976 to 1990, Knoch was a voluntary nature conservation officer in the Emmendingen district. In addition, among other voluntary activities, he was vice chairman of the Baden State Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation from 1970 to 1986.

In November 1990, at the suggestion of the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Conservation Association , Knoch was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit "for his services to the protection of nature both in the Black Forest and in the district of Emmendingen".

Honors

  • 1990: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2006: NABU badge of honor in gold
  • 2016: Honorary member of the Baden State Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation

Fonts

Since 1954, Knoch has published more than 60 articles in nature journals, writings of the Black Forest Association , book chapters and books.

selection

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Winski: Federal Cross of Merit for DIETER Knoch . Mitt. Bath. National association Natural history u. Nature conservation NF 15 (2): 505-507 1991; with bibliography up to 1989; Retrieved September 25, 2016
  2. ↑ FOSOR website; Retrieved September 25, 2016
  3. ^ Report in the Badische Zeitung Emmendingen from August 30, 2013; Retrieved September 25, 2016
  4. ↑ 50 years of Black Forest mushroom teaching, there page 22; Retrieved September 25, 2016
  5. ^ Wulfard Winterhoff, German Josef Krieglsteiner with the collaboration of Xaver Finkenzeller, Gerhard Gross, Hans Haas, Dieter Knoch, Doris Laber and Helmut Schwöbel: Red List of Big Mushrooms in Baden-Württemberg. 2nd version, as of January 31, 1984. Ed .: LUBW State Institute for Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 1984 ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fachdokumente.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de
  6. ↑ Jochen Hölzinger (Ed.): Die Vögel Baden-Württemberg 3.2: Singvögel 2; P. 13; 1st edition 1997
  7. ↑ Sebald / Seybold / Philippi / Wörz (eds.): The fern and flowering plants of Baden-Württemberg 7; P. 9; 1st edition 1998
  8. ↑ Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde 41 (1-2): 117-118. 1975
  9. ↑ Website "Ferienwelt Schwarzwald; accessed on September 25, 2016 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ferienwelt-suedschwarzwald.de
  10. ↑ Black Forest Bote , November 20, 1990
  11. ↑ Dieter Knoch. Natural oasis between Goethe-Gymnasium and Brettenbach. Unique school biotope in Baden-Württemberg. Goethe-Gymnasium Emmendingen (Ed.) 1999
  12. ^ Badische Zeitung Emmendingen October 19, 2013
  13. ↑ Schwarzwälder Bote, November 20, 1990
  14. ^ GGE yearbook 1990/91
  15. ^ Website of NABU Baden-Württemberg; Retrieved September 25, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Knoch, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin