Nikolaus Geiler

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Nikolaus Geiler (2019)

Nikolaus "Nik" Geiler (born August 11, 1952 ) is a German biologist , chemist , limnologist and hydrologist .

Career

Geiler studied biology at the University of Freiburg with a major: limnology and a minor a. a .: hydrology. Since 1981 he has been working as a freelancer in the field of water management and water policy. From 1991 he was a lecturer for water law at the chair for hydrology at the University of Freiburg.

activities

Since the 1970s, Geiler has been campaigning for more civic participation in the processes and decisions of water management.

In the 1980s he dealt intensively with keeping the Rhine clean .

In 1981 Geiler began his work in the working group on water ( AK Wasser ) in the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU) e. V. and the publication of the BBU-WASSER-RUNDBRIEF , which reports on the happenings in the national and international water protection policy and in the water management. More than 1000 issues of this newsletter have appeared so far.

Awards

  • 1986: 1st prize from the IKEA Foundation for outstanding commitment to water conservation - endowed with 10,000 DM
  • 1998: 1st prize of the Gerolsteiner Foundation "Blue Planet - Prize for Active Water Protection" for "outstanding commitment" and the "exemplary character" of water protection activities - endowed with 10,000 DM.
  • In 2017 he was awarded the Wolfgang Staab Nature Conservation Prize of the Schweisfurth Foundation .

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Geiler  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Nikolaus Geiler: BUND nominates Nik Geiler from the BBU for the Freiburg Nature Conservation Prize 2017. Accessed on October 26, 2019 .
  2. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Citizens' initiative: Sparkling water talk. October 16, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Guide to public participation in accordance with Article 14 of the EU Water Framework Directive | Ecologic Institute: Science and Policy for a Sustainable World. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Nikolaus Geiler: Waterworkers demand purity law . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 24, 1987, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 7 ( taz.de [accessed on November 9, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Nikolaus Geiler: The Rhine should finally become cleaner . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 1, 1987, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 5 ( taz.de [accessed on November 9, 2019]).
  7. ↑ nikolaus geiler: Rhine paradox: inconsistencies in the great river . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 27, 1989, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 5 ( taz.de [accessed on November 9, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Nik Geiler from AK Wasser in the BBU. Audio archive. In: untergrund-blättle.ch. August 16, 2007, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ press release. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
  10. ↑ FOCUS Online: "He puts his finger in the wound": Freiburg is committed to river landscape. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Geiler, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horny, Nik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, chemist, limnologist and hydrologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1952