Fritz Vollmar

Friedrich Emmanuel "Fritz" Vollmar (born October 17, 1926 in Lenzburg ; resident in Münchenwiler and Lenzburg) is a Swiss journalist and environmentalist .

Life

Fritz Vollmar studied economics and political science at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bern . He worked as a journalist in industry, held a leading position on the International Committee of the Red Cross , worked as a businessman and in university administration.

In 1962 Fritz Vollmar became the first general secretary of the World Wildlife Fund, which had been newly founded the year before . During this time he was responsible, among other things, for the establishment of an international secretariat and the development of a network to collect donations from the national organizations of the founding members. For its tenth anniversary in 1971, the WWF had already set up 16 national sections and financed 550 projects in 59 countries. Fritz Vollmar was then committed to the newly created post of General Director, which he remained until his retirement in 1978.

Web links

• Entry about Fritz Vollmar in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WWF International Director Generals 1962-present. (No longer available online.) In: panda.org. Archived from the original on November 17, 2014 ; accessed on April 26, 2016 (English). 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.  
2. ^ Matthias Daum: Basis versus business . In: The time . No. 17 , 2012 ( zeit.de [accessed April 26, 2016]).
3. ↑ Lisa Röösli: Clever animal rights activists: 50 years of the World Wildlife Fund. In: Kulturzeit . 3sat , April 13, 2011, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 15, 2011 .