Willi Kremer-Schillings

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Willi Kremer-Schillings (* 1954 ) is a German manager and farmer . Since his retirement he has been working as an author and public relations. In public and on social media he appears under the name Bauer Willi . He became famous in 2019 with the Green Crosses campaign he initiated . Farmers are protesting against new regulations and for more respect for their work.

Life

Willi Kremer-Schillings graduated from Norbert-Gymnasium Knechtsteden in Dormagen in 1973 . He studied agriculture with a focus on crop production at the University of Bonn , where he worked as a student assistant and research assistant , and received his doctorate in 1981 on a subject in the field of crop production.

When he retired in 2014, the Zuckerrübenjournal published a report on Kremer-Schillings under the title “Dr. Kremer-Schillings in retirement ”. This shows that he began his professional career at Schering AG in Düsseldorf. Schering Aktiengesellschaft was one of Bayer Pharma's predecessor companies . At Schering AG, Kremer-Schillings was the product manager for follow -up herbicides , based on the active ingredient Betanal . During his time at Schering AG, he was already responsible for treating sugar beet. At lectures in the new federal states in 1990, he “preached”, according to the sugar beet journal, “the pure post-emergence treatment of beets”. During this time he came into contact with the sugar manufacturer Pfeifer & Langen .

Kremer-Schillings worked for the Pfeifer & Langen company for over 20 years. Among other things, he was head of the agricultural department in the main administration of Pfeifer & Langen and later took care of the raw material markets, especially the agricultural markets. Furthermore, Kremer-Schillings is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Buir-Bliesheimer Agricultural Cooperative , which, like many agricultural purchasing cooperatives , deals with seed propagation and processing, fertilizer advice and delivery, crop protection advice and trading in the corresponding products. Critics emphasize particularly the trade in agricultural chemicals, which also pesticides including that in organic farming are allowed.

He has been retired since 2014 and does public relations . According to the sugar beet journal, in 2014 he was still “represented in many committees in the sugar industry and beyond”.

In 2016, Piper Verlag published Kremer-Schilling's book Sauerei! in which the author talks about the lack of consumer recognition for farmers .

Kremer-Schillings runs the 40 hectare Steinbrückerhof farm in Rommerskirchen as a sideline . Most of the field work is carried out by a neighboring farmer.

Kremer-Schillings is married and has a son and a daughter. In 2009 he co-founded the community foundation in Rommerskirchen.

Farmer Willi

Kremer-Schillings appears on the internet as farmer Willi . According to Kremer-Schillings, the project Bauer Willi has developed into a brand that he runs together with Alois Wohlfahrt, a farmer from the Allgäu. His partner supports him "especially in technical and organizational questions". Kremer-Schillings also says: “The very“ clear ”number of people has the advantage that we can decide quickly. We cover the expenses for the technology and other material costs through the fees I receive for lectures. Mr. Wohlfahrt gets it. This is important to us: Farmer Willi is independent and not obliged to anybody. "

The daily newspaper taz published an article in October 2019 which critically examines Kremer-Schilling's appearance as "Farmer Willi": His credibility is largely based on the fact that he does not appear to be part of "the agricultural industry ". However, information about his professional stations can not be found on his website or in his book.

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  1. ↑ a b Willi Kremer-Schillings: Commentary from peasant practice: Do we need a new social contract? , political ecology 154 (edition 3/2018 of August 31, 2018) * Agriculture suitable for the future, p. 114, PDF file on buchkomplizen.de, p. 5, accessed on October 21, 2019
  2. ^ Action against agricultural policy: Silent protest in the fields , tagesschau.de , October 1, 2019
  3. ↑ Willi Kremer-Schillings , stayfriends.de, accessed on October 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d Zuckerrübenjournal, Issue No. 03/2014, p. 23, Dr. Kremer-Schillings retired . In: rl-verlag.de , accessed on October 21, 2019.
  5. ↑ Willi Kremer-Schillings: Investigations into the effect of catch crops on yield and quality of a crop rotation . Bonn 1982.
  6. ↑ Bauer Willi blogs with the “Ei-Phone” - Alumni , forsch 1/2016 universitätbonn, p. 44 f.
  7. ↑ a b c Rommerskirchen: "Bauer Willi" is now also a book author , rp-online.de , February 1, 2016
  8. ↑ a b A farmer as a lateral thinker , rp-online.de, September 8, 2012.
  9. ↑ a b c Bauer as a chemistry lobbyist: "Chemie-Willi" instead of "Bauer Willi" , taz.de , October 10, 2019
  10. ↑ Die committees , website of the Buir-Bliesheimer Agrargenossenschaft , accessed on October 21, 2019.
  11. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, Green Crusade , January 22, 2020
  12. ↑ Plant protection products in organic farming oekolandbau.de, accessed on February 22, 2020
  13. ↑ Why glyphosate also has good sides for me , rp-online.de, August 15, 2016
  14. ↑ "Wutbauer Willi" solicits understanding for agriculture , Aachener Zeitung , May 24, 2016
  15. ↑ Henning Bielefeld: Farmer Willi opens his mouth , nwzonline.de, March 17, 2017
  16. ↑ Climate activists trample fields of farmers , wdr.de , June 25, 2019
  17. ↑ https://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/wirtschaft/artikel/630045/bauer-willi-und-co-wie-bloggende-bauern-das-netz-erobern#gallery&0&0&630045
  18. ↑ [1] . The quote can be found in the original of the source [2] , which has since been "adapted".
personal data
SURNAME Kremer-Schillings, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, manager and part-time farmer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954