Felix Finkbeiner

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Felix Finkbeiner

Felix Maximilian Finkbeiner (born October 8, 1997 ) is the founder of the children and youth initiative Plant-for-the-Planet .

Life

Finkbeiner has two sisters and is the son of the entrepreneur and Club of Rome member Frithjof Finkbeiner and the textile engineer Karolin Finkbeiner. He grew up in the Bavarian villages of Pähl and Uffing on the Staffelsee . From the fourth grade (2006–2015) he attended the Munich International School in Starnberg . In 2018 he graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London with a Bachelor's degree in International Relations . Since September 2018 he has been doing his doctorate in the Department of Environmental Systems Science atETH Zurich .

Plant-for-the-Planet

In January 2007, when Felix Finkbeiner was in fourth grade, he gave a school paper on climate change, in which he suggested that children should plant a million trees in every country in the world. Together with other children at his school, he planted a tree on March 28, 2007, thereby founding Plant-for-the-Planet. After three years, the initiative planted its millionth tree.

Ten years later, the organization had 130 employees and 70,000 members in 67 countries. Plant-for-the-Planet has organized over 1200 training workshops, leads the UN Billion Tree Campaign and works to restore 22,500 hectares of destroyed forest on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

He emphasizes that Greta Thunberg succeeded in bringing the topic of the climate crisis to the center of social discourse. “Now, for the first time, we are talking about the climate crisis every day for weeks. And that is an incredible achievement. "

Awards

Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

In 2009 he received the Bavarian State Medal for special services to the environment . In 2011 he was one of the 20 Green Giants according to the Guardian and one of the 100 most influential Germans according to Focus . In April 2012 he received the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award .

In 2013 he received the Citizens' Culture Prize of the Bavarian State Parliament , and one year later he was awarded the German Culture Prize. In 2015 he was named European of the Year by Reader's Digest .

In 2016 he was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World by JCI . In 2018 he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Frank-Walter Steinmeier .

Publications

Web links

Commons : Felix Finkbeiner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frithjof Finkbeiner. (PDF) Forest Association, 2017, accessed on April 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://www.focus.de/perspektiven/mutmacher/1000-millionen-baeume-als-ziel-felix-finkbeiner-will-die-welt-mit-baeumen-pflastern-und-so-das-klima-retten_id_10388413 .html
  3. ↑ A million trees and counting - German boy activist fights climate change Deutsche Welle , June 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ Wipfelstürmer Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Wipfelstürmer Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Young climate protectors rely on Greta Thunberg at BR24 from March 18, 2019, accessed on March 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ Laudatory speech on the award of the Bavarian State Medal for Services to the Environment in 2009 . Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  8. ^ Green giants: the eco power list The Guardian , January 16, 2011.
  9. ↑ The Hundred Most Influential Germans, Focus , October 2011
  10. ↑ Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award: Incentive initiative for submitters. CRS Germany, 2012, accessed April 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The winners of the Citizens' Culture Prize 2013 have been announced - the Landtag awards nine projects from all over Bavaria . Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  12. ↑ German Culture Prize: Cardinal and 16-year-old environmental activist honored . Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ 1000 billion trees for our future: The magazine Reader's Digest honors the 17-year-old future activist Felix Finkbeiner as “European of the year 2015” In: presseportal.de January 20, 2015.
  14. ↑ Announcing the 2016 JCI TOYP Honorees . JCI. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  15. ↑ Steinmeier awards Felix Finkbeiner the Federal Cross of Merit ( Memento from April 22, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk , May 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Finkbeiner, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finkbeiner, Felix Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder of the children and youth initiative Plant-for-the-Planet
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1997