Hermann Ilaender

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Hermann Ilaender (born November 13, 1933 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer ) is a German politician ( CDU ), administrative officer and association function . From 1983 to 1999 he was mayor of the Bad Hönningen community and from 1995 to 2007 President of the German Forestry Council (DFWR) .

Life and work

After completing an administrative training, his professional positions led him from the Soest city ​​administration to the Bonn district administration to the administration of the German Bundestag in Bonn. Hermann Ilaender was active there as chairman of the staff council , for which he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1980 . Elected mayor of Bad Hönningen in May 1983, he took office on October 1, 1983 and held it until he retired in September 1999. The Verbandsgemeinde Bad Hönningen, with around 3700 hectares of forest - that is more than 64 percent of its total area - is one of the most densely wooded municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate, of which it owns around 1600 hectares as municipal forest . This focus stimulated Ilaender to support the interests of the communal and private forest beyond the actual official activity .

Hermann Ilaender lives in Bad Hönningen .

politics

Ilaender is a member of the CDU. For his party he is a member of the Neuwied district council , where he is also represented on several specialist committees.

Public offices

Through his duties as mayor of the very wooded community of Bad Hönningen, Hermann Ilaender was able to participate in a number of forestry organizations. From 1990 to 2007 he was the chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate Forest Owners Association and from 1991 to 1995 he was also deputy chairman of the Working Group of German Forest Owners Associations (AGDW) and from 1994 to 2009 Vice President of the German Forest Association . He was a member of the board of the Wald in Not foundation , was a member of the district forestry committee of the Koblenz administrative district , the state forestry committee of Rhineland-Palatinate and the forestry committee of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture and the board of trustees of the University of Applied Sciences for Forestry in Rottenburg am Neckar . He was also the managing director of the “Naturpark Rhein-Westerwald eV” association .

In the German Forestry Council (DFWR), Hermann Ilaender has been active as a representative of the corporate forest in the general assembly since 1989 and since 1992 as a representative of the Working Group of German Forest Owners' Associations on the Presidium. On June 22, 1995 he was elected as the successor of Erich Naujack as the 9th President of the German Forestry Council at the general meeting in Celle .

Although Ilaender has always emphatically pointed out that sustainable forestry is guaranteed across the board by law in Germany and initially refused forest certification, he and the DFWR ultimately did not block such a system. On an international level, Ilaender was subsequently significantly involved in the development of the Pan-European Forest Certification System (PEFC) . He worked for Germany in the Pan-European Forest Certification Council (PEFCC) as its deputy chairman from 1999 to 2002 and was also a member of the German Forest Certification Council. Under his leadership, the German Forestry Council finally established PEFC forest certification in Germany and developed it into PEFC-Deutschland eV as an independent organization. This certification system was very successful and dominated the competition for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), so that in 2007 around 65 percent of the German forest area was managed according to the PEFC criteria.

In addition, Ilaender campaigned for more effective timber sales promotion and represented the interests of German forestry on the board of the timber sales fund since its reorganization in October 1999. He was one of the initiators of the “ Charter for Wood ”, a package of measures by the federal government with the aim of increasing wood sales in Germany by 20 percent. In the summer of 2006, the German Forestry Council and the German Wood Industry Council agreed to create an association cluster "Platform Forest & Wood" for the sustainable development of these two economic areas. The agreement was finally signed on May 8, 2007 in Fulda .

At the beginning of 2005, DFWR and the Association of the German Sawing and Wood Industry (VDS) also signed the jointly created "Framework Agreement on Plant Surveying" as a nationwide set of rules for the automated measuring of logs , which replaced the joint catalog of requirements for plant surveying from 1994.

In order to improve the generally difficult political, economic and social situation of forestry and the sustainable use of wood in Germany, Ilaender not only called for increased public relations work , but also launched the first German Forest Summit as a dialogue between the "users" and the "protectors" of the forest. Many of the summit participants then signed a jointly formulated “social contract” on October 23, 2001, which dealt with sustainable forest management and wood use in Germany while at the same time promoting the protective and recreational functions of the forest.

During the annual meeting of the German Forestry Council on June 5, 2007 in Biebrich Castle in Wiesbaden , Hermann Ilaender resigned from his position as President of the German Forestry Council. He was unanimously elected honorary president of the DFWR . The members elected the CDU politician Georg Schirmbeck as his successor . At the same time, the Georg Ludwig Hartig Foundation awarded Ilaender the Georg Ludwig Hartig Prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, for his services .

At the end of December 2008, Schirmbeck finally took over the position of deputy chairman for forestry on the board of the timber sales fund, succeeding Ilaender. Ilaender retained his membership on the ZMP supervisory board until its liquidation in 2009. He is also a corresponding member of the Board of Trustees for Forest Work and Forest Technology (KWF) .

Honors

literature

  • Herbert Kronauer: Hermann Ilaender new President of the DFWR . In: AFZ. General forest journal for forest management and environmental protection , 50th year, 2005, issue 17, p. 901, ISSN  0002-5860 .
  • NN: Hermann Ilaender, 70 years. In: Holz-Zentralblatt , 129th year, 2003, p. 1300.
  • J. Krauhausen: The German forestry sector cannot ignore certification. Interview with Hermann Ilaender, the President of the German Forestry Council. In: Holz-Zentralblatt , 121st year, 1995, pp. 2568-2569, ISSN  0018-3792 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Kronauer: Hermann Ilaender new president of the DFWR . In: AFZ , volume 50, issue 17/2005, p. 901
  2. Marcus Kühling: Carsten Wilke new President of the German Forest Association ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; DFV press release of July 6, 2009; Retrieved January 17, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wald-rlp.de
  3. NN: Forestry Council President Hermann Ilaender rejects forest initiative decidedly. “No need to develop a certification system” . In: Holz-Zentralblatt , 123rd year 1997, p. 1551
  4. a b c Awarding of the "Georg Ludwig Hartig Prize" 2007 to Hermann Ilaender; Report by the Georg Ludwig Hartig Foundation on their homepage at http://www.gl-hartig.de/aktuelles/index.htm ; Retrieved September 22, 2007
  5. NN: Associations of the forest and wood industry are moving closer together. “Platform Forest & Wood” founded on May 8th . In: Holz-Zentralblatt , 133rd year 2007, p. 529, ISSN  0018-3792
  6. NN: New common standard for factory surveying. Agreement between the sawmill industry and DFWR . In: AFZ / DerWald , volume 60, issue 6/2005, p. 287, ISSN  1430-2713
  7. cf. Birthday note in: Forest Technical Information (FTI). Specialist newspaper for forest work and forest technology , Volume 60 11–12 / 2008, p. 36, ISSN  0427-0029 ( pdf )
  8. ( page no longer available , search in web archives: press release of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture from May 28, 2008 ) (with photo)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lwk-rlp.de
  9. Retired mayor of the association celebrated his birthday. In: Blick Aktuell. November 12, 2013, accessed December 26, 2019 .