Henning Walter

Henning Walter (* 1950 ) is a German forester and conservationist .

Since 2004 he has been the head of the Eifel National Park Forestry Office and thus administrative director of the Eifel National Park .

Life

Henning Walter studied forest sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Since 1980 he has been working for the state forest administration of North Rhine-Westphalia (since 2005, state forest and wood company in North Rhine-Westphalia ), initially in various forest offices and at the central authority. He was head of the Bad Münstereifel Forestry Office , which, among other things , looked after the forest areas of the Kommern open-air museum . The focus was on running the museum with a focus on coppice forest and shipbuilding - that is, old forest management techniques. Until 1995 Walter worked at the Higher Forest Authority of the Rhineland, where he was in charge of the wood sales, forest work , machinery and road construction department.

In 2001 he was appointed head of the Schleiden State Forestry Office . In this role, he and his team played a key role in promoting the establishment of the Eifel National Park over a period of almost three years. The fact that the establishment of the national park went without any major complications earned him and the forest administration a great deal of respect. Since January 2004, Walter has headed the Eifel National Park Forestry Office and thus the National Park Administration as chief forestry director.

Web links

• “Are lynx, bears and wolves coming to the Eifel again?” - National Park Manager Henning Walter was asked in an interview with MonschauMagazin (issue: 2011, pages: 61-65). (PDF; 202 kB)
• Editor Thomas Trittmann of the Badischer Tagblatt spoke to National Park boss Henning Walter about environmental protection, bark beetles and global thinking on the occasion of the planned Northern Black Forest National Park (interview from November 18, 2011). (PDF; 382 kB)
• Henning Walter as head of the national park administration
• “Outdated role models represent unnecessary barriers”. An interview with Henning Walter, head of the Eifel National Park Forestry Office - Interview on the gender mainstreaming project in the Eifel National Park

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Willcke: “The use must not disturb the protection” - Henning Walter, head of the Eifel National Park, observes the discussion in the Siebengebirge with discomfort . In: General-Anzeiger online from February 28, 2009; accessed on September 5, 2017