Emil Dister

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Emil Rudolf Dister (* 1949 in Worms-Herrnsheim ) is a German biologist and geographer . He was a professor at the Institute for Geography and Geoecology of KIT and for many years head of the former WWF Aueninstitut, which has been located there since 1985 (today "Aueninstitut department" of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ).

His focus was on floodplain research in Europe, South America and West Africa on various rivers such as B. Rhine, Loire, Elbe, Oder, Rio Magdalena, March and Dona.

Life

Dister studied biology ( geobotany ) and geography in Mainz and Göttingen. He was a research assistant and then a freelancer for the Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Conservation in Frankfurt am Main. In 1980 he received his doctorate on "Geobotanical investigations in the Hessian Rheinaue as a basis for nature conservation work" at the University of Göttingen. Teaching assignments at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken, Marburg and Basel followed. In 1985 he became head of the WWF Aueninstitut, which was founded in Rastatt in the same year and has been part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2004. He held this position until 2014.

In addition to his university work, he was active in project evaluations for GTZ . He was looking for a project in Gambia for the foundation “Forest Conservation in Africa eV” .

In 2013 he pointed out that the floods in Germany would have been less severe with intact floodplains. The height of the flood wave could have been reduced by letting the water flow wider. To do this, at least some of the river's original floodplain, i.e. the floodplains, must be returned, he told Deutsche Welle.

Honors

Dister received the honorary award of the German Nature Conservation Prize in 2013. In July 2008 he had already been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon .

Publications (selection)

  • 1984: On the ecological problems of the planned Danube barrage near Hainburg / Lower Austria. In: magazine nature and landscape. Pp. 190-194.
  • 1994: Current problems and solution concepts for the Elbe natural area. In: The 1st Elbe Colloquium. Pp. 34-41.
  • 2009: River floodplains in Germany - recording and assessment of the floodplain condition. Nature conservation and biological diversity (with E. Brunotte, D. Günther-Dieringer, U. Koenzen and D. Mehl, published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the Aueninstitut at naturfreunde-rastatt.de .
  2. ↑ KIT Emil Dister ifgg.kit.edu, accessed on February 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ Deutsche Welle: Dister: "Give back the floodplains to the rivers!". June 14, 2013, accessed February 2, 2016
  4. ↑ German Nature Conservation Award 2013: The honorary award goes to alluvial researchers Emil Dister. bmu.de.
  5. ↑ The highest honor for the protector of rivers and floodplains.
personal data
SURNAME Dister, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dister, Emil Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms-Herrnsheim