Frank Claus

Frank Claus

Frank Claus (* 1955 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a German chemist and book author .

Career

Claus studied chemistry at the University of Dortmund (today: Technical University of Dortmund ) from 1974 to 1980 and completed his doctorate in 1983. At that time he was already concerned with environmental protection and pollutants. For example, in 1984 he published the work “Formaldehyde - a nation is glued” together with Rainer Grießhammer and Fritz Vahrenholt . In the course of his research, pollutants remained an important topic in everyday life, at work or in toys. In 1985 Claus received a teaching position in Dortmund. At that time, the spatial planning department at the University of Dortmund was looking for a chemist. Because contaminated sites and soil contamination were also topics of the spatial planners. Claus consistently relied on transparency and also involved environmentalists in his work - which is now common practice, but was a novelty in the mid-1980s. Since the late 1990s, Claus has been publishing primarily in the field of communication and mediation through dialogue.

In 1988, Claus heard a mediator from the USA who presented his way of working, which was still unknown in Germany at the time. This gave rise to the idea of ​​founding my own company. In 1991 the IKU GmbH started its work, in 1990 Claus ended his engagement at the University of Dortmund. Since then, he has mainly worked on strategies to cope with conflicts.

Publications

• Formaldehyde - A nation is glued with Rainer Grießhammer and Fritz Vahrenholt, rororo aktuell, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-499-15543-5
• Harmful effects of chemicals and heavy metals with Henning Friege and Rainer Grießhammer in: Fischer-Öko-Almanach 84/85, Fischer, Frankfurt 1984, ISBN 3-596-24093-X .
• Chemistry in the household , catalysis environmental group, Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation, Association for Environment and Occupational Safety, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-498-05008-7 .
• The treacherous mortgage - chemical policy for heavy metals with Henning Friege and Ulrich Kost, Verlag CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1985, ISBN 3-7880-7250-4 .
• Chemistry in the children's room with Hannelore Friege and Marigret D'Haese, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1986, ISBN 3-498-02052-8 .
• Chemistry at the workplace - hazardous substances, occupational diseases and ways out , catalysis, federal government, Öko-Institut, ULF, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-15990-2 .
• Chemistry for whom? Chemical policy instead of chemical scandals with Henning Friege, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-12238-3 .
• It is also possible without PVC, use, disposal, replacement - a guide with Henning Friege and Dieter Gremler, Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg, 1990 ISBN 3-89136-296-X .
• Remediation planning - principles and procedures for determining remediation goals with the participation of the citizens in: Rosenkranz, Einsele, Harreß: Soil Protection, Supplementary Manual of Measures and Recommendations for Protection, Care and Remediation of Soils, Landscapes and Groundwater, 1st Delivery XI / 88, No. . 6420, Berlin, 1988 ISBN 3-503-02718-1 .
• Perspectives of the contaminated site problem - a long-running hit without precaution in: Edmund Brandt: Altlasten, 2nd edition, Blottner, Taunusstein 1990, ISBN 3-89367-014-9 .
• Contaminated sites in the park - nothing for the public ?, in KM Schmalz and S. Müller (eds.): International Building Exhibition Emscherpark - A balancing act between social justice and 2/3 society.
• Environmental conflicts - mediation processes for their solution, practical reports with Peter M. Wiedemann, Blottner, Taunusstein 1994, ISBN 3-89367-039-4 .
• Overview of alternative methods of conflict resolution - nine questions about the prospects in Germany in: Katharina Holzinger and Helmut Weidner (eds.): Alternative conflict resolution methods in the planning and implementation of large-scale systems. Documentation of the status conference from 17./18. November 1995 at the WZB; Writings on mediation procedures in environmental protection No. 15; Berlin 1996.
• Meditation procedures in the environmental policy practice of the Federal Republic of Germany in Hermann Bartmann and Klaus Dieter John: Cooperative environmental policy, Chemnitzer Studies Volume 1, Shaker, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-8265-5898-7 .
• Cooperative concept development for the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in ZKM - Journal for Conflict Management 5, 231–234, Schmidt, Cologne 2000, ISSN  1439-2127 .

Web links

• IKU GmbH: Dialog designer