Reinhard Piechocki

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Reinhard Piechocki (* 1949 ) is a German biologist . Today he works for the International Nature Conservation Academy Insel Vilm and as a book author. His specialty is biodiversity at the International Nature Conservation Academy Insel Vilm of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation .

Life

The son of the zoologist Rudolf Piechocki (1919–2000) studied biology at the universities of Leipzig and Halle . In 1978 he received his doctorate and in the field of Mutation Research at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1987 habilitation . In 1990 he co-founded the GDR's first independent environmental institute. From 1993 he was a research assistant at the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation.

subjects

Piechocki deals with the effects of nature conservation . He advocates experiencing nature without excluding people, in which love for nature can only arise and flourish. In his book Landschaft - Heimat - Wildnis he shows the history and philosophy of nature conservation in Germany, East and West.

criticism

Of the nature lovers Piechocki is criticized for political ambivalence in the history of nature conservation, specifically those based on exclusivity nationalist-native trends in the first half of the 20th century, hide.

Memberships

Piechocki is a member of the board of trustees of the German Environmental Foundation .

Publications (selection)

  • Genetic engineering: outrage or progress? Urania Verlag , Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1983.
  • The taming of chance: stability and variability of the genetic makeup. Urania, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-332-00105-1 .
  • Origin, mechanisms of formation and evolutionary role of spontaneous mutability in Escherichia coli . Dissertation at the University of Halle , 1987.
  • The most famous bacterium. 100 years of Escherichia coli research. Urania, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-332-00278-3 .
  • Melissa Müller, Reinhard Piechocki: Alice Herz-Sommer: “A Garden of Eden in the middle of Hell.” A century of life. Droemer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-27389-6 .
  • with Konrad Ott , Thomas Potthast, Norbert Wiersbinsk: Vilmer theses on fundamental questions of nature conservation: Vilmer summer academies 2001–2010. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-89624-016-3 ( PDF; 1.14 MB ).
  • The Vilm, island of painters, monks and mighty people . Self-published, Vilmnitz on Rügen 1995, ISBN 3-00-000333-9 .
  • with Norbert Wiersbinski: Home and nature conservation. The Vilmer theses and their critics . In: Nature Conservation and Biological Diversity , Issue 47, 2007.
  • Cape Arkona . Genius loci, Putbus 2007.
  • Landscape - home - wilderness: protection of nature - but which and why? Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-54152-0 (= Becksche series. Volume 1711).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Gattermann , Volker Neumann : History of zoology and the zoological collection at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from 1769 to 1990. Verlag der Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-7776-1391-6 , P. 148.
  2. ↑ schattenblick.org
  3. ↑ Hans-Gerd Marian and Michael Müller: Nature conservation is not apolitical. In: NaturFreunde Deutschlands. June 24, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Piechocki, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949