Wolfgang Apel

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Wolfgang Apel (born May 10, 1951 in Bremen ; † February 4, 2017 there ) was a German animal rights activist and from 1993 to 2011 President of the German Animal Welfare Association .

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In the decades of his commitment, Wolfgang Apel has significantly shaped animal welfare in Germany and made the German Animal Welfare Association Europe's largest and most influential animal and nature conservation umbrella organization. Exemplary were the struggle against the keeping of laying hens in cages and against the painful animal transports across Europe. One of his greatest successes during his tenure as President of the German Animal Welfare Association was the introduction of the state goal of animal welfare into the Basic Law ( Art. 20a GG).

biography

After finishing school, Apel completed an apprenticeship as a freight forwarder. In 1970 he joined the administration of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

In addition to his professional career, he began to get involved in animal welfare early on . In 1978 he took over the honorary chairmanship of the Bremen Animal Welfare Association and became a member of the entire board of the German Animal Welfare Association. Two years later, its president appointed him federal manager. From 1983 to 1985 he served as federal treasurer and from 1991 to 1993 as vice president. In 1993 he was elected President of the Association. He held this office until 2011.

During his career at the German Animal Welfare Association, he not only expanded the federal office of the German Animal Welfare Association into a powerful center for animal welfare, but was also responsible for the organization of the Academy for Animal Welfare near Munich, the establishment of the animal, nature and youth center Weidefeld and the animal -, nature and species protection center Sylt as well as the animal protection and castration center in the Ukrainian Odessa.

In 2011 he was made honorary president. After handing over the office of president to his successor Thomas Schröder , he took over as honorary president at the request of the executive committee, among other things, the lead management of the animal welfare centers in Germany and Ukraine as well as the street animal project in Kiev. He was also committed to the animal welfare label developed under his presidency.

From 1987 to 2011 Wolfgang Apel was a member of the animal welfare commission at the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection . For many years he was also chairman of the NEULAND association - an association for animal-friendly and environmentally friendly animal husbandry. Since 1988 he has been a board member and since 2000 president of the animal welfare association for Berlin and the surrounding area . From 1986 to 2011 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Promotion of Research into Alternative and Complementary Methods to Restrict Animal Experiments (set).

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  1. ↑ Eckhard Stengel: A heart for animals. The long-time president of the German Animal Welfare Association, Wolfgang Apel, has died. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of February 8, 2017, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Apel, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal rights activist and honorary president of the German Animal Welfare Association
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2017
Place of death Bremen