Jochen Flasbarth

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Jochen Flasbarth, 2013

Jochen Flasbarth (* 4. April 1962 in Duisburg - Rheinhausen ) since December 2013 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) respectively since 2018 in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . He was previously President of the Federal Environment Agency since 2009 . Flasbarth studied economics and was active in various positions as a nature and environmental conservationist.

Professional background

Flasbarth did his community service at the Jordsand association , then studied economics, political science and philosophy in Münster and Bonn from 1983 to 1989 and completed his studies with a degree in economics.

He initially worked from 1989 to 1992 as editor-in-chief at Economica-Verlag in Bonn. From 1992 to 2003 he was the full-time president of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), after having held the office of NABU Vice-President since 1989.

In 2003 he was appointed Head of the Department for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Use of Nature at the BMUB by the then Federal Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin . In this function he was significantly involved in the preparation of COP 9 for the 2008 Biodiversity Convention in Bonn. In August 2009 he became President of the Federal Environment Agency (and thus successor to Andreas Troge ). In 2013 he was appointed to the BMUB as permanent state secretary. At the 2015 climate negotiations in Paris , alongside Minister Barbara Hendricks, he was the most important German negotiator for reaching a relevant climate agreement.

In 2017 he was appointed to the supervisory board of the Federal Agency for Final Storage.


Volunteering

Flasbarth has been involved in various environmental organizations on a voluntary basis since the 1970s. At the age of 16, he joined what was then the German Association for Bird Protection (DBV) and now the German Nature Conservation Union (NABU) and was elected national spokesman by the DBV youth in 1983.

Among other things, he was a member of the Presidium of the German Nature Conservation Ring (1985-2003), founding board member of the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (1986) and played a key role in organizing the German Environment Days in Würzburg and Frankfurt. He accompanied the research work on climate and resource protection in his function as a member of the supervisory board of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy .

As President of NABU, Jochen Flasbarth was significantly involved in the realignment of the nature conservation organization away from a specialist organization for bird protection towards a broad-based nature and environmental protection organization. Even in his time as DBV youth spokesman, he campaigned for a stronger political positioning of the association.

During his NABU presidency, transport and tax policy as well as the topic of sustainability were his main priorities.

He is a member of the SPD .

Private

He is married to a lawyer and has two daughters.

Web links

  • CV at the BMUB.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Flasbarth becomes the new President of the Federal Environment Agency. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, August 5, 2009, accessed on August 10, 2009 .
  2. ↑ SPD gets external expertise. General-Anzeiger Bonn, December 16, 2013, accessed on December 16, 2013 .
  3. ↑ PM - 06/17 - BGE supervisory board appointed. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ From NABU boss to UBA boss. Jochen Flasbarth becomes the new President of the Federal Environment Agency. Naturschutzbund Deutschland, August 5, 2009, accessed on August 10, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Michael Bröcker: Jochen Flasbarth is to become the UN's chief environmental officer. In: Rheinische Post . January 8, 2016, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ FAZ No. 23, January 28, 2015, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Flasbarth, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, permanent state secretary
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinhausen (Duisburg)