Pollichia
| Pollichia | |
|---|---|
| founding | October 6, 1840 |
| founder | Carl Heinrich Schultz |
| Seat | Bad Dürkheim or Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
| main emphasis | Nature research and land maintenance |
| people | President Michael Ochse |
| Members | 2,800 |
| Website | www.pollichia.de |
The Pollichia (spelling POLLICHIA) is a research-based nature conservation association with a focus on Rhineland-Palatinate . It has around 15 regional groups with around 2,800 members. This makes Pollichia the second largest natural research association in German-speaking countries after the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research .
The association for nature research and conservation, as the Pollichia specifies its goals in the name affix, is non-profit and a nature conservation association recognized according to § 29 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act . He conducts study trips, excursions and lectures. The various fields of work in the natural sciences are dealt with in numerous specialized working groups. In addition, around 80 hectares of particularly protected areas are maintained by the Pollichia.
The seat of the association is still the place where it was founded, Bad Dürkheim , the office is located in the new house of biodiversity in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .
structure
The association is managed and represented by a presidium. Decisions within the association are made by the main committee, in which the groups and working groups are represented in addition to the executive committee. A scientific commission advises the Presidium and the Main Committee on technical issues. The association is a member of the German Nature Conservation Ring .
In 2019 the presidium included:
- President: Michael Ochse
- Vice President: Dirk Funhoff
- Calculator: Reinhard Speerschneider
- Secretary: Wolfgang Lähne
- Editor: Heiko Himmler
- Scientific commission spokesman: Dagmar Lange
- Land maintenance officer: Fritz Thomas
Active groups existed in 2019 mainly in Rhineland-Palatinate , but also in Saarland : Bad Dürkheim , Bad Kreuznach , Birkenfeld , Donnersberg , Edenkoben , Germersheim -Kandel, Grünstadt , Kaiserslautern , Kusel , Landau , Ludwigshafen - Mannheim , Middle Rhine- Westerwald , Neustadt , Pirmasens , Speyer , Zweibrücken .
The association has numerous working groups:
- astronomy
- botany
- entomology
- earth sciences
- Herpetology
- Land care
- meteorology
- Mollusks
- Mosses
- Museum education
- Mycology
- Hunsrück National Park
- Natural research / Citizen Science
- Neozoa
- Neumayer
- Open house of biodiversity
- Ornithology
- Environmental education
- Forest
- Water and bodies of water
- Wild cat and mammal
history
The association was founded on October 6, 1840 in Bad Dürkheim on the initiative of the botanist Carl Heinrich Schultz by 25 naturalists and named after Johann Adam Pollich , an important botanist from the Palatinate . The founders came from various ideological areas and were brought together by a shared love of nature. There were fellow campaigners of the Hambach Festival such as B. the doctor and lichen researcher Philipp Hepp from Neustadt an der Haardt , as well as the respected Speyer cathedral capitular Bruno Würschmitt , an expert in the field of cryptogams , primarily mushrooms . The moss researcher Philipp Bruch (1781–1847) from Zweibrücken, the moss researcher Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel (1812–1858) from Landau, and his brother the geologist Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898) were also founding members of Pollichia.
At the end of the 19th century, the well-known botanist Ferdinand Gottfried von Herder from Grünstadt , the grandson of the famous poet Johann Gottfried von Herder , acted as the association's chairman. Before that, Georg von Neumayer , the polar researcher and founder of the Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg, was chairman; he was honorary chairman of Pollichia until his death in 1909.
At the suggestion of Pollichia founder Carl Heinrich Schultz, the chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen from Heidelberg (who was a member of the association) examined the spring water of the Maxquelle from (Bad) Dürkheim in 1860 . He found two previously unknown elements in it: cesium and rubidium .
Facilities
In the Palatinate Museum for Natural History in Bad Dürkheim, Pollichia has deposited its important collections on the Palatinate flora and fauna. In 1998, the sponsorship of the Palatinate Museum was transferred to a newly founded association and the Geoskop primeval world museum was opened at Lichtenberg Castle near Kusel as a branch of the Palatinate Museum. There the geoscientific collections of Pollichia with reference to the Rotliegend of this region are housed and partially exhibited. The geoscope enables insights into the age of the Rotliegend around 290 million years ago.
The House of Biodiversity in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse has been the seat of the Pollichia office since July 2015.
Publications
Pollichia publishes books and annual reports on scientific topics. The Pollichia-Kurier appears quarterly with current articles from the association and the working groups ( astronomy , botany, fauna , geosciences , mycology , ornithology , environmental education).
See also
- Society for Nature Conservation and Ornithology Rhineland-Palatinate , another nature conservation association in Rhineland-Palatinate, with which the Pollichia often works.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Statute of Pollichia.
- ↑ The future of the Pfalzmuseum secured. A special purpose association founded 20 years ago and Geoskop opened. In: www.bv-pfalz.de. August 6, 2018, accessed February 1, 2020 .