Siegfried Schuster

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Siegfried Schuster (born March 5, 1936 in Zittau ; † January 30, 2018 in Radolfzell ) was a German ornithologist , secondary school teacher and nature and environmental activist .

Life

Siegfried Schuster, who was born and raised in Zittau in 1936, joined the Ornis bird protection group under Heinz Knobloch as a teenager in 1952 . In 1956 Schuster fled the GDR and first went to Wuppertal . After studying to be a teacher in Weingarten , he taught in Pfullendorf until 1962 and then - until his retirement in 1997 - for 35 years at the secondary school in Radolfzell in the subjects of biology and chemistry . As early as the 1960s, Schuster was one of the leading ornithologists in the Lake Constance area , volunteered for nature conservation and campaigned politically for the protection of birds . a. since 1958 through his participation in the Ornithological Working Group Bodensee (OAB) in Konstanz . During this time he began to publish on ornithological topics of the Lake Constance area. In December 1960, Schuster, along with Harald Jacoby and Gerhard Knötzsch, was one of the founders of the "Ornithological Circulars for the Lake Constance Region", whose field research he remained until his death. In the following years a total of around 100 publications were made in magazines and books, including as a co-author of the three great Avifaunen of Lake Constance in 1970, 1983 and 1999.

In Radolfzell, Schuster initiated his own environmental office as a voluntary environmental officer. From 1985 he was elected to the state board of the German Federation for Bird Protection DBV and was NABU state chairman in Baden-Württemberg from 1989 to 1997 . During this time, Schuster had a decisive influence on the development of the association in Baden-Württemberg. As a pioneer of a modern nature and environmental protection association, he campaigned for the change from the former "German Association for Bird Protection" (DBV) to a thematically broader, political nature conservation association NABU. The specific nature protection by active people in NABU on site was just as important to him as the associated political demands: "Nature protection on 100 percent of the area". Schuster demanded not to withdraw to individual NABU nature reserves, but to intervene for nature-friendly agriculture and forestry as well as against the use of land by constantly building new roads and settlements. Schuster's last publications are devoted to the "area shifts" of individual bird species as a result of global warming .

As a pioneer of a new type of conservation developed Schuster the "semi-quantitative grid mapping " as a method to changes in the bird world via breeding bird - monitoring to make measurable. His main focus was on the effects of climate change and moulting in water birds. Together with Gerhard Thielcke , Schuster founded the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Naturschutz Bodensee” and headed the NABU Group in Radolfzell. The dialogue and cooperation with the later BUND co- founder Thielcke gave him important impulses for the new conception of the Bund for bird protection, which he pushed forward as part of the state executive board and later as state chairman. He did not shy away from the substantive argument. As head of the largest NABU regional association, he self-confidently called for these changes in content and structure at the NABU federal association.

Siegfried Schuster died on January 30, 2018 in Radolfzell. His son is the literary scholar Jörg Schuster .

Works (selection)

  • 1970 (Ed. Jacoby, Harald; Knötzsch, Gerhard; Schuster, Siegfried et al.) "The birds of the Lake Constance region", Der Ornithologische Beobachter, supplement to Volume 67. [= First Avifauna Bodensee - presentation of the observation results of the Ornithological Working Group Bodensee, founded in 1958.]
  • 1974 (together with Peter Berthold and Gerhard Thielcke) "Nature reserve, Mettnau bird sanctuary, Lake Constance", German Association for Bird Protection, Radolfzell.
  • 1975 “The monthly water bird censuses at Lake Constance 1961/62 to 1974/75. 1st chapter. Fischfresser “, Der Ornithologische Beobachter 72, pp. 145–168.
  • 1976 “The monthly water bird censuses at Lake Constance 1961/62 to 1974/75. Part 2. Swans and Green Ducks ”, Der Ornithologische Beobachter 73, pp. 49–65.
  • 1976 “The monthly water bird censuses at Lake Constance 1961/62 to 1974/75. 3rd part. Diving ducks and coot ”, Der Ornithologische Beobachter 73, 5/6, pp. 209–224.
  • 1979 (together with Peter Berthold and Karl Mühl) “Peninsula Mettnau. History, Nature, Landscape ”, ed. v. Ornithological Working Group Bodensee, Constance.
  • 1982 "Raster mapping Lake Constance - a semi-quantitative breeding bird inventory in the Lake Constance area 1980", Vogelwelt 103, pp. 24–31.
  • 1983 (arr. Blum, Vinzenz; Jacoby, Harald; Knötzsch, Gerhard; Schuster, Siegfried and others) "The birds of the Lake Constance area. [2.] Avifauna Bodensee “, Ornithological Working Group Bodensee, Konstanz.
  • 1983 "The birds of the Mindelsee nature reserve ", in: The Mindelsee near Radolfzell. Monograph of a nature reserve on the Bodanrück , ed. from the State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe, pp. 349–392.
  • 1986 “Quantitative breeding bird inventory in the Lake Constance area 1980 and 1985.” Journal für Ornithologie 127, pp. 439–445.
  • 1994 "Investigations into the moulting of the curlew ( Numenius arquata ) in the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley", Egretta 37, pp. 60–70.
  • 1999 “Curlew. Numenius arquata. “In: G. Heine, H. Jacoby, H. Leuzinger and H. Stark: The birds of the Lake Constance area. Avifauna Lake Constance. A publication of the Ornithological Working Group on Lake Constance , Ornithological Annual Books for Baden-Württemberg Volume 14/15 (1998/1999) 14/15, pp. 423–428; Online (PDF).
  • 2003 (together with Gerhard Thielcke) “Networking of three lakes for 11 species of birds”, in: Ornithological Annuals for Baden-Württemberg, Volume 19, Issue 2, pp. 487-541; Online (PDF) under Ornithological Society Baden-Württemberg.
  • 2004 “The niche of a new bird species on Lake Constance: the white-headed gull Larus cachinnans ”, Der Ornithologische Beobachter 101, pp. 115–124; Online (PDF) at Ala Switzerland, Swiss Society for Ornithology and Bird Protection.
  • 2017 “ Changes in behavior in wood pigeons Columba palumbus in the foothills of the Alps,” Ornithological Annuals for Baden-Württemberg, Volume 33, Issue 1/2, pp. 71–80; Online (PDF).
  • 2017 "Area shifts due to climate change", Ökol. Birds (Ecol. Birds) 35/36, 2013/2014 (2017), pp. 401-422.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: G. Eifler, G. Hofmann, H. Knobloch u. a .: The bird life of the Zittau district. Ed. Society for Nature and Environment in the Kulturbund der DDR, Kreisvorstand Zittau, Zittau 1985; on Heinz Knobloch see: Ulrich Augst: Heinz Knobloch (1929–2006) , "German Working Group for the Protection of Owls (AG Eulen) eV"
  2. ↑ Cf. archive of the OAB, "Ornithological circular letters for the Lake Constance region", online.
  3. ↑ Cf. Rita Kilzer and Georg Willi: Avifaunistische Literatur und Landschaftswandel. Example Vorarlberg. Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna, Haupt 2011; here p. 92 ff: short biography and selected bibliography 1965 ff.
  4. ↑ See: Environment and underpants. The Lake Constance city of Radolfzell is a national model for active environmental and nature conservation. In: Der Spiegel, January 2, 1989.
  5. ↑ See Andrea Koch-Widman: More variety! Former Nabu chairman Siegfried Schuster. Interview , Stuttgarter Zeitung, June 11, 2015.
  6. ↑ On the methodology see: Ornithological Working Group Bodensee (ed.): The birds of the Lake Constance area. Avifauna Bodensee , edited by S. Schuster, V. Blum, H. Jacoby u. a., Konstanz 1983, p. 33 ff .; Hans-Günther Bauer: The development of the breeding bird population at Lake Constance. Comparison of semi-quantitative raster maps 1980/81 and 1990/91. In: Journal für Ornithologie 133 (1992), pp. 1-22.
  7. ↑ See NABU Baden-Württemberg: Obituary. Mourning for Siegfried Schuster.
  8. ↑ Georg Becker: An upright nature conservationist. Siegfried Schuster has died , Südkurier, February 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2018
Place of death Radolfzell