Johannes Hengstenberg

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Johannes Dietrich Hengstenberg (born August 12, 1944 in  Rheinhausen ; † August 11, 2019 in Rosolina Mare, Province of Rovigo , Italy) was a German climate activist and social entrepreneur.

Life

From 1978 to 1984, Johannes Hengstenberg was a research fellow at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world ( Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , Jürgen Habermas ) and at the Starnberg Institute for Research on Global Structures. In 1984 he was with a thesis on Marx's microeconomics to Dr. rer. pole. PhD at the Free University of Berlin . In 1984 he published the German version of Margaret A. Fay's dissertation on the influence of Adam Smith on Karl Marx's theory of alienation, which was initially the last critical edition of the economic-philosophical manuscripts from 1844 .

From 1984 to 1987 Hengstenberg was managing director of the 5th Munich Theater Festival and the Alabamahalle . Then from 1987 to 1990 he was managing director of the Global Challenges Network eV association founded in Starnberg in 1987 by Hans-Peter Dürr . 1987 awarded the Right Livelihood Award English : Prize for the right way of life , also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. From 1990 to 1992 he was co-founder and managing director of an association for the establishment of a foundation for the environment and nature conservation in Brandenburg (SUN).

In 1992, Hengstenberg founded the ArbeitsGruppe Energie (AGE) with a registered trademark in Munich in Sigma Energy Consulting Beratungsgesellschaft mbH (SEC GmbH), with which he a. a. "Heizspiegel" developed for around 90 federal German municipalities and from which the non-profit co2online GmbH and SEnerCon GmbH in Berlin emerged after the turn of the millennium . From 2001 he developed online energy-saving advice and prepared reports for residential buildings and household appliances (from 2005). From 2004 onwards, these became the central building blocks of the nationwide Climate Searches Protection campaign , funded by the Federal Environment Ministry .

In 2006 he presented the energy saving account with which he determined the consumption of around 70,000 users from their meter readings for fuel / heating, electricity and water in December 2013, as well as CO 2 emissions, costs and cost forecasts for variable future energy prices.

In 2007, he won with co2online the Sustainable Energy Europe Award 2007 in the category Awareness Raiser for the campaign climate-looking protection and its tools and in the same year from international Ashoka Board as a social entrepreneur (social entrepreneur) to Fellow appointed . In 2008 he received the CleanTech Media Award with co2online .

Hengstenberg lived in Munich since 1974 and commuted between Berlin and Munich from 1990 to 2019 .

He was killed in a ship accident in Italy on August 11, 2019, the day before his 75th birthday.

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Peter Dürr: Cooperation instead of confrontation. Plea for a ›Global Challenges Network‹. In: Blaetter.de. 8/1987, pp. 1029-1042
  2. ↑ Ashoka: Fellows: Johannes Hengstenberg
  3. ↑ L'ambientalista è morto mentre lavorava al suo sogno . La Voce di nuova Rovigo, August 12, 2019 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Il gazzettino: Rosolina, cade dalla barca: morto imprenditore ambientalista tedesco , August 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hengstenberg, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hengstenberg, Johannes Dietrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg-Rheinhausen
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2019
Place of death Rosolina Mare, Province of Rovigo , Italy