Henry Makowski

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Henry Makowski (born September 18, 1927 in Märkisch Friedland , Polish Mirosławiec) is a German naturalist and author of books and films.

Youth & Life

The son of merchants (land trade and department store) has dealt with natural history topics since school and was inspired by Hermann Löns . Makowski had to drop out of school at the end of 1944 and was drafted into the Wehrmacht . This was followed by military service, Russian imprisonment and escape from this to the British occupation zone .

Makowski lived for a long time on the edge of the Fischbeker Heide in the Hamburg district of Neugraben . He has 3 children and after completing his active career, he lives with his second wife in Dahlem in the Lüneburg district .

Education & career path

Makowski completed an apprenticeship in agriculture at the end of the 1940s .

1948 full-time supervisor of the sea bird sanctuary Schleimünde for the Jordsand association and in 1950 head of the Lüneburg bird sanctuary . Further training at the Central Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve as well as ornithological and nature conservation studies in Holland, England and the Faroe Islands . Visits to national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the USA and initial connections to international nature conservation organizations followed.

1954 employment at the Nature Conservation Office Hamburg and the State Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management, 1956 as deputy director.

The focus of his work as a freelance author was from 1957 to 1991, combined with worldwide travel. Even after that, Makowski worked nationally and internationally on numerous book, film and nature conservation projects and gave lectures. Most recently he dealt with the reappearance of wolves in Germany .

Functions (selection)

1960–1964 member of the Education Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN , Section Northwestern Europe.

Member of the Advisory Board for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture as a representative of the German Commissioner for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ABN).

Makowski was an expert in various committees, including a. 1971 for the amendment of the Reich Nature Conservation Act .

Co-organizing the German Nature Conservation Days until 1988 .

1977–1992 Head of the “Nature Conservation and Landscape Management” section at the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS

Acting as an author of books and films as well as in the media

Makowski is the author of numerous natural history writings, books and films and films as well as the author of articles in youth and specialist magazines. His main work consists of five books and over fifty films. Makowski became known to a wide audience through his contributions to the television programs “Tele-Zoo” ( ZDF ), “In terms of nature” ( ARD ) and “Paradiese aus Menschenhand” (ZDF). Here he also worked with Konrad Lorenz and Heinz Sielmann .

Makowski was considered a critic of parts of Bernhard Grzimek's work in East Africa. The controversy was about Makowski's advocacy of targeted population regulation, including hunting in the protected areas of East Africa, in order to maintain the ecological balance of the animals to be protected and the landscape.

Honors and awards (selection)

Books (major works)

  • 1961 “Blackbirds, thrushes, finches and starlings - looking after birds / observing birds”, Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart
  • 1971 "Landscape for tomorrow, models for environmental protection", M. u. K. Hansa Verlag, Hamburg ISBN 3920610059 , 9783920610054
  • 1985 "New course for Noah's Ark", Kindler Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3463400219 , 9783463400211
  • 1983 "Nature subject to man, ecology as reflected in landscape painting", Kindler Verlag, Berlin ISBN 3423028955 , 9783423028950
  • 1996 "National parks - treasure chambers of nature", Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster ISBN 3529053228 , 9783529053221

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Web links

Literature by and about Henry Makowski in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Official telephone book for the local network Hamburg, part 2, edition 1971, p. 119 and others.
  2. ↑ Elke Allers new mayor. In: Homepage “Lokales Dahlenburg” of the state newspaper Lüneburg . January 3, 2018, accessed February 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Robinson hut with a history of nature conservation - 100 years of the Norderoog sea bird sanctuary. In: Homepage of the unn United News Network, Karlsruhe. May 22, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "Nobody who makes you stress". In: Homepage of the Allgemeine Zeitung , Uelzen. October 11, 2015, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wikipedia article animal film , section "Famous animal filmmakers and animal film producers"
  6. ↑ Wikipedia article about the animal filmmaker Felix Heidinger
  7. ↑ Honor book entries, Henry Makowski. In: Homepage of the district of Lüneburg . December 5, 2008, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ The wolf never really disappeared. In: Homepage "Local" of the regional newspaper Lüneburg . April 9, 2015, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  9. ^ Regine Auster: New wings at Schloss Drachenburg Museum for the development of nature conservation in Germany opened. In: Homepage Neues Deutschland . March 25, 2002, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Expeditions into the animal kingdom - pioneer Heinz Sielmann. In: Homepage of the WWF youth . June 26, 2012, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Research / Grzimek - The Entertainer. In: Homepage Der Spiegel , issue 38/1960. September 14, 1960, Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  12. ^ Henry Makowski: Can the landscape still be saved? In: Homepage in the time . January 23, 1970. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Book “The Era of Ecology: A World History”, CH Beck Verlag, Munich, 2011, page 721. Author Joachim Radkau.
  14. ↑ Wikipedia article Alexander von Humboldt Medal (Toepfer Foundation)
  15. ↑ Wikipedia article Wikipedia: WikiProjekt Bundesverdienstkreuz / 1989 / November
personal data
SURNAME Makowski, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Märkisch Friedland