Ludwig Sothmann

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Ludwig Sothmann (left) with Karl Partsch , 1994

Ludwig Sothmann (* 2. May 1940 ) is a German natural and environmentalists . From 1978 to 2014 he was long-time chairman of the State Association for Bird Protection in Bavaria (LBV).

Sothmann studied chemistry and pharmacy and runs a pharmacy in Hilpoltstein in Central Franconia . In 1969 he started a signature campaign with other bird friends to prevent the construction of an airfield in the Schwarzachtal. With 3,000 signatures it was possible to convince the responsible ministry to stop construction. As a result, Sothmann became chairman of the district group of the Federation of Nature Conservation in Bavaria .

In 1978 he became the first chairman of the State Association for Bird Protection in Bavaria, an office that he held until October 2014. During his term of office, the LBV developed across the board in all Bavarian districts of the member association, which campaigns for scientifically sound species and biotope protection in public and against authorities.

For more than ten years Sothmann was the spokesman for the Supreme Nature Conservation Council in the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment . He is a member of the Presidium of the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL) and the advisory boards of the two Bavarian national parks Berchtesgaden and Bavarian Forest . Ludwig Sothmann is a member of the presidium of the German Nature Conservation Ring and was appointed to the future council of the Bavarian state government by Prime Minister Horst Seehofer .

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  1. Ornithologischer Anzeiger, 45, 2006, page 74 ff.
  2. a b c α forum: Ludwig Sothmann in conversation with Hartmut Stumpf, 2006
  3. Bayerisches Landesportal: Zukunftsrat ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayern.de