Klaus Gundelach Prize

The prize is awarded, for example, for extraordinary forest protection campaigns. (Photo: Rangers installing a bat reintroduction box)

The Klaus Gundelach Prize is one of the oldest environmental prizes in Germany and is awarded annually by the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW) for special merits in youth work and nature conservation .

History, award and selection criteria

The prize is named after Klaus Gundelach (1905–1989), the founder of the German Forest Youth . The prize, donated by the Federal Association of the SDW on his seventieth birthday, has been awarded by the President of the SDW for outstanding achievements since 1975. The award is given to individuals or groups of forest youth who have made a name for themselves with particular commitment, energy and prudence, for example in the care and supervision of sponsored forests, forest protection and actions to protect an ecosystem or in the organization and management of camps. In addition, personalities outside of the forest youth can also be honored if they have supported the youth organization through mentoring, generous support measures and special public relations work. The prize is usually awarded once a year. The prize money in various amounts can also be granted in kind at the request of the prize winner. The first prize winner was Dieter Weldt, a long-time employee of Klaus Gundelach, who helped shape the youth in the forest by promoting not only the initially purely biological way of working of the groups in forest operations, but also music, especially singing, as well as youth-moving elements, including camps and large-scale trips . The award winners are presented and honored in the bi- monthly journal of the SDW Unser Wald (Bonn, ISSN  0935-7017 ) and in the periodicals of the Waldjugend.

Award winners

1975 Dieter Weldt 1976 Walter Konrad 1977 German Forest Youth Munster ( migratory swans ) 1978 Jörg Franz 1979 August Bottler 1980 German Forest Youth Heusenstamm 1981 Lothar Selbach 1982 Gabi Friedrich 1983 Pure ski rally 1984 Hans-Erich Henkes 1985 Bernd Felix 1986 Hans-Peter Giebing 1987 Thomas Schock 1988 Dieter Roth 1989 Wolfgang Hegemeister 1990 Forest Youth Legau 1991 Buffalo nurseries of the Federal Association of German Forest Youth 1992 Marian Przybilla 1993 Roland Migende 1994 Claus Peter 1995 Jochen Weiß

1996 Manfred Stender 1997 Erik Martin 1998 Dieter May 1999 Ute Grimminger 2000 Uwe Steigmann 2001 (price was not awarded) 2002 Rainer Schramm 2003 Helmut Struck 2004 Dieter Paul 2005 Thomas Dziekan 2006 Peter and Wilma Pawliczek 2007 Gudrun Rademacher 2008 (price was not awarded) 2009 (price was not awarded) 2010 Franca Federer 2011 Andreas and Ulrich Jakesch 2012 Elke Mösler-Tochtrop and Martin Tochtrop 2013 State Office of North Rhine-Westphalia 2014 Hans Frenkle 2015 Dietmar (Atze) Schwarz 2016 Not awarded 2017 Walter Seltmann 2018 Ralf (Eddi) Bischoff

See also

• List of environmental awards

literature

• Wolfgang Hegemeister : Klaus Gundelach Prize . In: ... that's the forest youth . (= Catch no.61). Pages 49–51. Hemer 1999
• NN: Prize for work in nature conservation . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of December 12, 1997

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ... and that is the forest youth, p. 49 f.
2. ↑ Our Forest , October 5, 1978, p. 144
3. ↑ Our forest , 6/2000, page 29 f.
4. ↑ Our forest , 3/2003, page 21