Walter Sollbach

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Walter Sollbach (born May 25, 1937 in Hürth ) was chairman of the Rheinischer Fischereiverband von 1880 eV and the foundation for water protection and migratory fish NRW from 1992 to 2016 .

In his functions he has been campaigning for the protection and renaturation of water bodies and for environmentally friendly fishing for years. Numerous successful projects such as the reintroduction of salmon in the Sieg were implemented under his chairmanship. On June 9, 2006, he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his extraordinary commitment to nature conservation and youth development . In 2000 he was awarded the silver medal of the VDSF. In 2013 he was the first and so far only angler to be awarded the sports plaque of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for his services to the casting sport .

Walter Sollbach became a member of Angelsportfreunde Rodenkirchen in 1969 and was a member of its board from 1970, from 1973 to 1998 he was its chairman. He was one of the first people to take the fishing exam after the introduction of the fishing exam in 1971. Walter Sollbach volunteered in many offices for the fishery. Since 1984 Walter Sollbach was on the board of the then regional association, which he led from 1990 to 2016. Walter Sollbach was elected to the Presidium as Vice President in 2016. He also worked for the Fishing Association NRW e. V. active as a fisheries advisor, as a member of the landscape advisory council and the fisheries council at the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection in Düsseldorf as well as in numerous working groups.

Walter Sollbach is considered to be the father of the program to reintroduce the allis shad in the Rhine. It was created in 2002 in Cologne by the Rheinischer Fischereiverband and the Dohle brothers, who later sponsored this through the Hit Environmental Foundation. The then chairman of the fishing association, Walter Sollbach, remembered the "Poller Maispill" in Cologne-Poll , in which the allis shad tradition of the fishing village is kept alive and suggested the allis shad, which is no longer native to the Rhine, as a funding object.

Walter Sollbach lives in Cologne, has a second marriage and has three daughters. Until his retirement in 2000 he worked as a civil engineering engineer at the Rheinisches Autobahnamt in Cologne. Here he represented the interests of the employees for many years as the chairman of the staff council and shop steward for the severely disabled.

voluntary work

  • 1974 to 1998: Chairman of the ASF Rodenkirchen 1948 eV
  • 1980 to 2016: Member of the board of the Landes-Fischereiverband NR eV Bonn / Rheinischer Fischereiverband, chairman since 1992
  • 1989 to 2016: Advisory board for fisheries at the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2000 to 2016: Fisheries advisor for the city of Cologne

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Sollbach, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German association official, chairman of the Rheinischer Fischereiverband and the Wasserlauf Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Huerth