Ulrich Wotschikowsky

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Ulrich Wotschikowsky (born March 8, 1940 near Cottbus in Brandenburg ; † August 30, 2019 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German wildlife biologist and forester . He gained fame through his work in the administration of the Bavarian Forest National Park , through his participation in the founding of the Ecological Hunting Association (ÖJV) and through his research and work in wolf management as a wolf expert.

Life

Ulrich Wotschikowsky was born in 1940 near Cottbus in Brandenburg to a family with Sorbian roots and last lived in Oberammergau in Bavaria . In the 1960s he completed a degree in forest science and then worked in the Bavarian State Forest Administration , where he was deputy director of the Bavarian Forest National Park , which had been founded a few years earlier, between 1973 and 1977 and was responsible for wildlife management and public relations. Due to differences of opinion about the objectives of the national park, he resigned from the civil service in 1978 as a forestry councilor.

Beginning in 1983, Wotschikowsky worked as a freelance wildlife biologist after a stopover as editor of the Hamburg hunting magazine " Jäger ". a. as project manager of the Wildlife Biological Society Munich (WGM). The focus of his work there were projects on hunting and hoofed game management and on large predatory predators ( lynx , bear , wolf ). Between 1983 and 1992 he headed the area Hahne tree on behalf of the Province of South Tyrol a research project on deer in the Alps and also taught at the local hunting school . For two months he carried out field research on the Finlayson wolf project in the Yukon alongside the Canadian biologist and wolf researcher Bob Hayes, whose book "Wolves of the Yukon" he later translated into German.

Wotschikowsky used to be an advocate, co-initiator and founding member of the Ecological Hunting Association (ÖJV). Due to what he saw as an irreconcilable behavior by the club management at the time towards the rest of the hunters' business and in order to maintain his independence, he announced his resignation from the association in 1998, but continued to regard the ÖJV as a positive phenomenon and an important counterweight to the traditional hunting associations, where "the sting ÖJV [...] worked like spurs on a tired horse."

As a member of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE), Wotschikowsky was part of a European expert group on large carnivores led by the Italian biologist Luigi Boitani within the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). LCIE advises the European Commission on the five large carnivores European and Iberian lynx, wolf, bear and wolverine .

Since the end of August 2014 he has been running the website woelfeindeutschland.de , on which he has provided “current, critical and competent information about wolf events in Germany” and abroad, in accordance with his own claim.

In his private life, Wotschikowsky was an active hunter , dog handler ( Wachtelhund ), angler and canoeist .

On August 30, 2019, he succumbed to cancer after a serious illness . Several newspapers and interest groups, including the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the daily newspaper Die Welt , the Zoological Society Frankfurt (ZGF), the Society for the Protection of Wolves (GzSdW) and the Ecological Hunting Association (ÖJV), published obituaries for him.

Awards

In 2018 he received the “Wilde Alpen” sponsorship award from the Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung, endowed with 10,000 euros, for his services to reintroducing the lynx in Bavaria .

Publications

  • C. Promberger, M. Dahlström, U. Wotschikowsky, E. Zimen, P. Wabbakken: Wolves in Sweden and Norway. In: C. Promberger, W. Schroder: Wolves in Europe - Status and perspectives. Munich Wildlife Society, Ettal 1993, pp. 8-13.
  • U. Wotschikowsky: The roe deer from Hahnebaum. Wildbiologische Ges. Munich, Ettal 1996.
  • RD Hayes, AM Baer, ​​U. Wotschikowsky, AS Harestad: Kill rate by wolves on moose in the Yukon. In: Canadian Journal of Zoology. Volume 78, 2000, pp. 49-59.
  • A. Fischer, U. Wotschikowsky: Forest and hoofed game in the Isar floodplains - forest ecology and wildlife biology report for the deer area Isar floodplain. Published by Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment of the Technical University of Munich and the Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry. 2004, ISBN 3-933506-28-X .
  • U. Wotschikowsky, O. Simon, K. Elmauer, S. Herzog: Rotwild model - ways for progressive management. Edited by the German Wildlife Foundation. Hamburg 2006, DNB 995514658 .
  • U. Wotschikowsky: Wolves, hunting and forest in Upper Lusatia. Final report. Vauna 2006.
  • P. Kaczensky, G. Kluth, F. Knauer, G. Rauer, I. Reinhardt, U. Wotschikowsky: Monitoring of large carnivores in Germany. (= BfN scripts. 251). 2009.
  • I. Reinhardt, P. Kaczensky, F. Knauer, G. Rauer, G. Kluth, S. Wölfl, D. Huckschlag, U. Wotschikowsky: Monitoring of wolf, bear and lynx in Germany. (= BfN scripts. 413). 2015.
  • Ulrich Wotschikowsky: The chamois. Published by Ökologischer Jagdverein Bayern. 2018.
  • S. Ehrhart, J. Lang, O. Simon, U. Hohmann, N. Stier, M. Nitze, M. Heurich, U. Wotschikowsky, F. Burghardt, J. Gerner, U. Schraml: Ungulate management in Germany's forested national parks: Analysis and recommendations. In: Nature and Landscape. Volume 93, 2018, pp. 485-493.

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Wotschikowsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Wotschikowsky’s memorial page. In: trauer.sueddeutsche.de. September 4, 2019, archived from the original on September 4, 2019 ; Retrieved September 4, 2019 ( archived obituary ).
  2. ↑ a b Eckhard Fuhr: "A life without wild animals would be poor". In: WORLD. September 3, 2019, archived from the original on September 5, 2019 ; accessed on September 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Wildlife biologist and wolf expert: Wotschikowsky, Ulrich | alpha forum | ARD-alpha | Television | BR.de. In: br.de. Bayerischer Rundfunk, March 10, 2016, archived from the original on May 26, 2017 ; accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Promotion Prize Wild Alps 2018. In: Umweltstiftung.com. Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung, 2018, archived from the original on November 27, 2018 ; accessed on November 26, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Katharina Schmid: Wild animals in Bavaria - "The wolves will cause us conflicts". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 19, 2018. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Obituary - Ulrich Wotschikowsky has died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 1, 2019, archived from the original on September 1, 2019 ; accessed on September 1, 2019 .
  7. ^ A b Claus-Peter Lieckfeld: Who is Wolfsite? Who is Wotsch? In: Wolfsite - Forum Isegrim. Archived from the original on November 16, 2018 ; accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Ulrich Wotschikowsky - Obituaries, obituaries, bereavement, mourning, PNP. In: pnp.de. Passauer Neue Presse, September 6, 2019, archived from the original on November 19, 2019 ; accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  9. ^ DNB, catalog of the German National Library. In: German National Library (DNB). Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Music and questions about the person - the wildlife biologist Ulrich Wotschikowsky. In: Deutschlandfunk. August 2, 2015, archived from the original on August 20, 2015 ; accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Josef-Markus Bloch: Wildlife biologist leaves the ÖJV . In: OÖ Landesjagdverband (Hrsg.): Der OÖ. Hunter . No. 78 . St. Florian June 1998, p. 28 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed September 5, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe> About LCIE> Who are we? In: lcie.org. Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe, archived from the original on September 30, 2018 ; accessed on November 27, 2018 (English).
  13. ↑ Ulrich Wotschikowsky: LCIE in Trient: hybridization in the center. In: Wolfsite - Forum Isegrim. March 23, 2018, archived from the original on November 27, 2018 ; accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  14. ^ A forum for Isegrim - wolves in Germany. In: Wolfsite - Forum Isegrim. August 27, 2014, archived from the original on January 31, 2018 ; accessed on September 6, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Imprint - Wolves in Germany. In: Wolfsite - Forum Isegrim. Archived from the original on November 4, 2018 ; accessed on November 28, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Jürgen Vogler: "Wotsch" is dead. In: wolfsmonitor.de. August 31, 2019, archived from the original on August 31, 2019 ; accessed on August 31, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ a b A friend and wolf friend has gone. In: Frankfurt Zoological Society. Archived from the original on September 4, 2019 ; accessed on September 4, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Peter Blanché: Ulrich Wotschikowsky died. In: Society for the Protection of Wolves. Archived from the original on September 5, 2019 ; accessed on September 5, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Eckhard Fuhr: "A life without wild animals would be poor" - On the death of Ulrich Wotschikowsky. In: Ecological Hunting Association. Archived from the original on September 5, 2019 ; accessed on September 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wotschikowsky, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wildlife biologist and forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2019
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen