Martin Vosseler

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Martin Georg Vosseler (born October 4, 1948 in Basel ; † October 23, 2019 there ) was a Swiss doctor , peace and environmental activist and author .

Life

Vosseler attended primary and secondary school in Basel. He completed his medical studies in Basel in 1976 with a dissertation. From 1974 to 1979 he was an assistant doctor at the Kantonsspital Basel and then a research fellow at the Harvard Medical School in Boston , USA. From 1982 to 1995 he had a practice for internal medicine and psychosomatics in Basel.

After participating in the protests against the planned Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant as early as 1975 , he joined the International Medical Association for the Prevention of Nuclear War and founded its Swiss section in 1981. In 1985 he initiated the doctors' campaign “Air is Life”, the forerunner of the organization Doctors for Environmental Protection, founded in 1987 . After a visit to the Peace Museum Hiroshima in the late 1980s , he refused to serve as captain of the Swiss Army and lost it in 1990 with a prison sentence of 30 days in semi-captivity from.

Vosseler was intensely committed to nature conservation . In 1993 he and his friend Bruno Manser took part in a fasting campaign in front of the Bundeshaus in Bern and fasted for 41 days as a protest against imports of tropical wood . In 2004, Vosseler - in collaboration with the organization "Regio ohne Zollfreistrasse" (RoZ) - was the main character of a protest camp on the Wiese River in Riehen against the construction of a toll-free route between Weil am Rhein and Lörrach . After the camp was evacuated, he went on a hunger strike in 2006. After a vote in the same year, Vosseler and the RoZ had the majority of the voting population in the canton of Basel-Stadt behind them. Nevertheless, the construction of the road could not be prevented.

In 1993 Vosseler founded the SONNEschweiz Foundation and in 1997 the Sun21 organization , which annually organizes an international energy forum to promote energy efficiency and renewable energies. From October 2006 to May 2007 he and his crew, including Beat von Scarpatetti , crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in history in a solar-powered boat , the Sun21 solar catamaran . In 2007 he was awarded both the Swiss and the European Solar Prize for his commitment to promoting the use of solar energy .

Vosseler promoted solar energy and renewable energies with long hikes . In 2003 he traveled on foot from Basel to Jerusalem , from January to August 2008 Vosseler wandered the United States from Los Angeles to Boston and in 2011 he hiked from Basel to Saint Petersburg .

Martin Vosseler died just three weeks after his 71st birthday in October 2019 in a traffic accident in Basel after falling as a cyclist.

Publications

  • Flotsam. Line history poems and other doodles. Emu-Verlag, Lahnstein 2013, ISBN 978-3-89189-207-7 .
  • Asia. On the trail of the warmth of the heart. With poems by Rainer Maria Rilke . Emu-Verlag, Lahnstein 2012, ISBN 978-3-89189-201-5 .
  • Towards the sun. On foot from Basel to Jerusalem for 100 percent earth-friendly energy. Emu-Verlag, Lahnstein 2010, ISBN 978-3-89189-190-2 .
  • With solar boat and sandals. Quiet halfway around the world - the earth-friendly discovery of America. SunKalinago, Transatlantic21, SunWalk 2008. Emu-Verlag, Lahnstein 2010, ISBN 978-3-89189-191-9 .
  • 's Wölggli. The little cloud. Le petit nuage. The little cloud. Schudel, Riehen 1985, ISBN 3-85895-852-2 .
  • What the hell? D'Gschicht from the Wunderli. Schudel, Riehen 1982, ISBN 3-85895-821-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martin Georg Vosseler: Chemical hepatitis caused by chenodeoxycholic acid. A question of dosage. Basel 1976 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1976).
  2. ↑ a b The killed cyclist was Martin Vosseler , Basler Zeitung, October 24, 2019, accessed on October 24, 2019.
  3. ^ Biography Martin Vosseler f ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of Martin Vosseler
  4. ↑ a b c d e Üsé Meyer: Man with a mission , portrait of Martin Vosseler, magazine naturally from AZ Medien , 6/2004
  5. ^ Organization , Swiss section of the IPPNW
  6. ↑ Bruno Züst: ignition from Basel , in: Oekoskop - specialist journal of doctors for environmental protection 3/2007, pp. 7-10; on-line
  7. ↑ Ruedi Suter: "I fast until the madness gives way to reason" , OnlineReports , February 20, 2006
  8. ↑ Interview: “I fast until I see a sign” , Schrot & Korn Naturkostmagazin 5/2006
  9. ↑ Martina Rutschmann: Zollfreistrasse in Riehen: An unwanted present for your 65th birthday , TagesWoche , October 4, 2013
  10. ↑ Sedrik Eichkorn: Martin Vosseler, "sadness and gratitude" , Swiss Radio and Television , October 3, 2013
  11. ^ Peter Knechtli: Pacemaker on the way to the sun , Online Reports , September 18, 2000
  12. ^ European price for the Swiss boat Sun 21 , swissinfo , November 29, 2007
  13. ↑ Appreciation Martin Vosseler ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Europ. Solar prices 2007, Eurosolar
  14. ↑ Swiss Solar Prize 2007: 1st solar Atlantic crossing by sun21 & M. Vosseler / BS , Solaragentur.ch
  15. ↑ Christoph Pfluger: What «Enthusiasm» means and what it does: Martin Vosseler, winner of the European Solar Prize 2007 , Zeitschrift Zeit, issue 92, November / December 2007, p. 32 ff.
  16. ^ Peter Knechtli: State reception for Planet Ambassador Martin Vosseler , Online Reports , September 25, 2008
  17. ^ Eugen von Arb: Martin Vosseler: A man marches for sun and wind , Sankt Petersburger Herold , July 26, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Vosseler, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vosseler, Martin Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor, peace and environmental activist and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2019
Place of death Basel