Peter W. Heller

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Peter W. Heller (2012)

Peter W. Heller (born September 5, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former deputy mayor of the city ​​of Freiburg im Breisgau , environmental scientist, founder of a foundation and company.

family

Peter W. Heller is the son of Wolfgang Heller, a technical businessman, and Ingeborg Heller, born. Longwall He has been married to Micaela Heller since 1988 and has two children, Julia (* 1989) and Jakob (* 1991).

Career

Peter W. Heller studied economics and philosophy at the University of St. Gallen and the University of Lausanne , Switzerland, as well as at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Germany, where he received his doctorate in 1988 on the subject of "The Problem of Environmental Pollution in Economic Theory".

From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of the “Ecological Economy” project group at the Öko-Institut eV

In the municipal elections in 1984 he was elected a member of the municipal council of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau (retired in 1990 when he assumed office as mayor).

From 1990 to 1996 he headed the newly created, first independent environmental department of a major city in Baden-Württemberg as the mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau . It comprised the offices for environmental protection, waste disposal, green spaces and forest and bundled the responsibilities for municipal energy supply and water supply in the city ​​administration .

In 1993 he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (until 1997), an international association of cities and municipalities involved in environmental and climate protection.

In 1997 Peter W. Heller founded his investment company forseo GmbH. About it he holds interests in companies in the solar industry, wind industry and technology development in the field of energy efficiency. Since 2012 he has been chairman of the supervisory board of Streb AG, a founding partner and chairman of the advisory board of Fahrenheit GmbH and co-founder of several project development companies in Chile, Brazil and France.

Since 1997 he has been the managing director of the Canopus Foundation , which he co-founded , a non-profit foundation under German law. The Canopus Foundation supports social entrepreneurs in Africa, Asia and South America who are committed to the electrification of low-income households with renewable energies. The foundation has been coordinating the international Solar for All Initiative, which was founded jointly with Ashoka (organization) , since 2008 . As a second focus, the foundation has been supporting initiatives since 2014 that promote a greater plurality of doctrines in the economic sciences and a more intensive examination of the prerequisites for a sustainable economy and society.

In 2001 he helped found the “Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE)” foundation. Since 2011 Peter W. Heller has been a member of the board of trustees of the European Environment Foundation, Basel, which annually organizes an international convention of environmental award winners. In 2018 he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform (HVGP) gGmbH in Berlin.

Publications (selection)

  • Environmental policy on the wrong track - On the problem of limit values. In: Working in harmony with nature. Ed .: Öko-Institut . Dreisam-Verlag, Freiburg 1985, pp. 132-144.
  • The problem of environmental pollution in economic theory. ( Campus Research. Volume 631). Frankfurt 1989. (Dissertation)
  • Ecological renewal using the example of a medium-sized city. In: E.-H. Ritter (ed.): Urban ecology . Analytica , Berlin 1995.
  • Fund financing for social entrepreneurs. In: A.-K. Achleitner, R. Pöllath, E. Stahl (Ed.): Financing of social entrepreneurs. Schäffer-Poeschel , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7910-2631-2 .
  • as publisher: Innovative Funding Mechanisms for Social Change. Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 2009.
  • Venture Philanthropy in Practice - The Canopus Foundation. In: P. Hoelscher, T. Ebermann, A. Schlüter (Eds.): Venture Philanthropy in Theory and Practice. (= Maecenata writings. Volume 7). Lucius & Lucius , Stuttgart 2010.
  • with H. Kirchhoff, N. Kebirb, K. Neumann, PW Hellerd and K. Strunz: Developing mutual success factors and their application to swarm electrification: microgrids with 100% renewable energies in the Global South and Germany. In: Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 128, 2016, pp. 190-200.
  • Perspectives for a new partnership. In: The Foundation. February / March 2018, pp. 50–51.
  • The Philosophy of Theory U: A Critical Examination. In: Philosophy of Management. 2018, pp. 1–20. doi: 10.1007 / s40926-018-0087-0 . (link.springer.com)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Everything eco or what? In: The time. No. 34, 1995. (zeit.de)
  2. ↑ Cities want to put governments under pressure Linz is building a "solar city" for 25,000 people. (berliner-zeitung.de , accessed on March 12, 2013.)
  3. ↑ Imprint - FAHRENHEIT. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ A. Schneider: The early phase donor. In: wir - the magazine for business families. No. 2, 2012, pp. 46-48.
  5. ↑ T. Mersch, S. Merx: The business benefactors. In: enormous - economy for people. No. 3, 2010, pp. 20-27.
  6. ^ E. Rosenkranz: Network for renewable energies. In: Basler Zeitung. No. 163, 2002, part II.
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Peter W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heller, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German environmental scientist, entrepreneur and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main