Volksbund Naturschutz

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The Volksbund Naturschutz eV is a nature conservation organization founded by Hans Klose on June 21, 1922 in the Citizens' Hall of the Berlin City Hall . The office has been in Berlin since the association was founded.

history

Weimar Republic

The establishment of the association was under the significant influence of the father of the natural monument preservation and as the founder of the German and European nature conservation, botanist Hugo Conwentz . When the association was founded, it saw itself as a “popular addition to the official conservation of natural monuments” in Brandenburg.

The aim was to protect the local landscape in its own way, to preserve soil forms, flora and fauna in town and country and to spread the idea of ​​nature and homeland protection . Excursions in and around Berlin, the botanical and zoological gardens , the Berlin Aquarium and the museums should get to know and appreciate the flora and fauna. In the winter months the aim was to impart scientific knowledge through lectures and courses.

Nature conservation in the 1920s entered into alliances mainly with the migration movement . It was not until the end of the Weimar Republic that the Volksbund Naturschutz formed alliances with the Friends of Nature, which were communist-dominated in Berlin-Brandenburg . Towards the end of the 1920s, nature conservation associations demanded state planning based on the model of the Ruhr coal district settlement association . "With ever growing concern, we have been following for years that in the near and far surroundings of the capital city one forest after another and, above all, one lakeshore after another, is being lost to the general public through parcelling and building," said a joint event with the friends of nature in October 1929.

Hans Klose was a founding member and chairman until 1945 . Other well-known members included a. the cave researcher Benno Wolf, who was significantly involved in the creation of the Reich Nature Conservation Act , and Max Hilzheimer , the first nature conservation commissioner for Berlin's urban nature conservation. Max Hilzheimer had been on the scientific advisory board of the association since 1923. Dr. Victor Wendland , senior government and ministerial advisor in the high command of the Wehrmacht and head of the Berlin branch of the Reichsbund für Vogelschutz , is revered as the leading head of post-war Berlin nature conservation in connection with the “Victor Wendland Ring of Honor”.

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1936, supported by 42 signatures, Klose applied for an amendment to the statutes and implementation of the Nuremberg Laws ; important Jewish members like Benno Wolf and Max Hilzheimer have since been unwanted there. In 1945 Hermann Helfer took over the chairmanship of the “Volksbund Naturschutz”. Hermann Helfer is said to have rarely shown his political orientation, but anti-Semitic references are known. In his opinion, Jews should not be ousted from nature conservation associations, as this would be detrimental to association policy, without Hermann Helfer wanting to see this interpreted as friendliness towards Jews.

After 1945

After the Second World War, the association submitted another application for approval, initially only for the British sector, which was complied with in 1947. On March 25, 1949, the association received approval from the Allied Command for the entire urban area of ​​Greater Berlin.

In 2002, the association describes its tasks as follows: "The involvement of young people in working groups (e.g. natural and environmental law; diving and nature conservation; bio-economy; urban and landscape planning; description of nature in literature; historical relationship between people and their environment; Young researchers) should support them and provide professional guidance. Education and research for young people in the field of nature, environmental and animal protection should also be promoted. In this context there is also the cooperation with the teacher training through scientific lectures and guided tours. "

The association wants to disseminate information in an understandable way by publishing scientific articles and to stimulate further education. The association has been publishing the Berlin nature conservation papers since the 1950s , with contributions from both volunteer conservationists and scientists. In addition to the nature conservation leaflets, a club magazine, information and discussion forum for laypeople as well as for science, business and politics serves this purpose. The association endeavors to ensure that science and industry find an ecological-economic cooperation that is capable of reaching a consensus.

literature

  • Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, 2006: Nature Conservation and Democracy!?: Documentation of the contributions to the event organized by the Foundation for the History of Nature Conservation and the Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture (CGL) at Leibniz University Hannover in cooperation with the Institute for the History and Theory of Design (GTG) of ... Volume 3 of CGL Studies, Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture Hanover. Editor Gert Gröning, contributor to the Nature Conservation History Foundation, University of Hanover. Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture, University of the Arts Berlin. Verlag Martin Meidenbauer Verlag. ISBN 3899750772 , ISBN 9783899750775

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Excerpt from the inventory overview of the Landesarchiv Berlin ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesarchiv-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Volksbund Naturschutz (VBN) ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.dnr.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dnr.de
  3. ↑ Susanne Köstering, Renate Rüb (Ed.) Garbage from yesterday ?: An environmental history exploration in Berlin and Brandenburg. Volume 20 of Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment. Waxmann Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3830912587 , ISBN 9783830912583 . P. 104
  4. ↑ Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, p. 163ff
  5. ↑ a b The Commissioners for Nature Conservation in Berlin 1927-2007 - 80 Years of Urban Nature Conservation in Berlin (PDF; 10.6 MB)
  6. ↑ Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, p. 87
  7. ↑ Victor-Wendland-Ehrenring www.stiftung-naturschutz.de
  8. ↑ Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, p. 84
  9. ↑ a b c Association page 2002 ( Memento from April 2, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Dipl.-Ing.Sonja Pobloth, 2008. The development of landscape planning in Berlin from 1979 to 2004 with special consideration of urban ecology. Dissertation at the Faculty VI Planning, Building, Environment of the Technical University of Berlin. ( online, pdf ). P. 24