José Lutzenberger

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José Lutzenberger (1988)

José Antônio Lutzenberger (born December 17, 1926 in Porto Alegre ; † May 14, 2002 ibid) was a German-Brazilian environmental activist .

biography

Lutzenberger was the son of German emigrants . His father was the artist and architect Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger from Altötting . Joseph Lutzenberger was a reserve officer, captain in World War I and a German national. He left Germany in the turmoil after World War I in 1920 and settled in Brazil as an independent architect and engineer. There he also taught as a professor at an art college.

José Lutzenberger studied agriculture in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, and then spent a year studying soil science and agrochemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge . In 1957 he went to BASF in Ludwigshafen am Rhein as a qualified farmer and technician in agricultural chemistry . From 1959 to 1970 Lutzenberger worked as a salesman in Venezuela , Cuba and Morocco .

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In the 1960s, BASF stepped up DDT production. When Lutzenberger learned that this poison not only destroyed pests but also biodiversity, he became an environmental activist in 1970.

In 1971, during the years of the military dictatorship, Lutzenberger founded the first environmental NGO Associação Gaúcha de Proteção ao Ambiente Natural (AGAPAN), which the press referred to as the "Association for the Protection from Collective Poisoning". A little later he founded a company for the production of humus from organic waste and in 1987 the environmental foundation Gaia to spread ecological awareness.

In 1988 Lutzenberger received the Right Livelihood Award . In 1990 he was appointed Environment Minister to his cabinet by President Fernando Collor de Mello . Lutzenberger helped to prevent Brazil from attempting to build the atom bomb . He campaigned for the integrity of the Yanomami Indian territory . His commitment to the indigenous citizens of Brazil clashed with the interests of the landowners, mine operators, multinational corporations and the military, who were still powerful at the time. In March 1992 he was removed from office because he had described the national environmental authority IBAMA as a "wholly owned subsidiary of the timber trade".

He has a very strong influence on the environmental movement in Rio Grande do Sul , many groups still refer to him today. He was constantly implementing new ideas and also working with the “worst polluters” ( tanneries , cellulose factories ). He did not prevent their work, but reduced the negative impact on the environment. Because of these activities, it was controversial in parts of the Brazilian ecological movement. Because of his multilingualism and his tireless commitment, he was a popular speaker in many countries, including Germany.

Publications

  • José Lutzenberger, M. Schwartzkopff: Poisonous harvest. Agrochemicals deadly wrong track. Example: Brazil. Greven Eggenkamp, ​​1990.
  • José Lutzenberger, S. Pater: We cannot improve nature - speeches and essays by the Brazilian ecologist José Lutzenberger . Collection of articles, Edition Pater, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-931988-10-4 .
  • José Lutzenberger, F.-T. Gottwald: Nutrition in the knowledge society, vision: Eating informed . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • José Lutzenberger: The legacy - “We cannot improve nature” . RETAP Verlag, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-931988-10-4 .

literature

  • Siegfried Pater : José Lutzenberger. The green conscience of Brazil. Lamuv-Verlag, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-88977-387-7 .
  • Ludger Scheuermann, Rainer Fabry: José Lutzenberger - father of the Brazilian environmental movement . In: Environmental sciences and pollutant research. Volume 18, No. 4, 2006, pp. 262-266, ISSN  0934-3504

Web links

Commons : José Lutzenberger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Franz Seraph Lutzenberger - Biografia (Portuguese), accessed on June 25, 2019.
  2. ^ José Lutzenberger - Munzinger biography. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Ben-hur Luttembarck Batalha Environment Minister (Brazil, Nova República)
(Secretaria do Meio Ambiente da Presidência da República)
March 15, 1990 - March 23, 1992 		José Goldemberg
personal data
SURNAME Lutzenberger, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lutzenberger, José Antônio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian environmental activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto Alegre
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2002
Place of death Porto Alegre