German Council for Sustainable Development

Hubert Weiger has been Chairman of Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) since 2007. He is an honorary professor for nature conservation and sustainable land use at the University of Kassel – a position he has held since 1994. Furthermore, from 2002 to 2011, he was appointed lecturer for nature conservation policy at the Technical University of Munich. He is a full member of the Supreme Advisory Committee for Nature Conservancy of the Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Consumer Protection. Mr Weiger is a management board member of the AgrarBündnis e.V. and an advisory council member of Transparency International Germany.

In 2010, he was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit. Hubert Weiger has been a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development since 2013.

Curriculum Vitae

21.04.1947: born in Kaufbeuren, Germany
1966: diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation (Abitur), Guenzburg
1967 – 1971: undergraduate student at the University of Munich and ETH Zuerich; subject: forestry, diploma (1971)
1976: grand forestal state examination, University of Munich
1986: PhD summa cum laude about the effects of nitrogen deposition on forest hydrology and soils in forest ecosystems
1986 – 1993: lecturer, Comprehensive University Kassel (GHK)
1990 – 1991: guest professor of nature conservancy, department of city and landscape planning, Comprehensive University Kassel (GHK)
2002 – 2011: lecturer for nature conservation policy, department of forestry and resource management, Technical University of Munich (TU München)
Since 1994: honorary professor, department of city and landscape planning, Comprehensive University Kassel (GHK)

Function at the BUND/BN

1973 – 1992: authorised agent of the des Union for Nature Protection in Bayern (Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e.V.) for the region of North Bavaria (Nordbayern)
1992 – 2002: authorised agent of the Union for Nature Protection in Bayern for the federal state of Bavaria and responsible conductor of all divisions and regional departments of the organization, conductor of the agency of the federal state of Bavaria with domicile in Nuremberg
1975 – 2008: spokesman of the BUNDs working committee agriculture
Since 1974: member of the state executive of the Union for Nature Protection in Bavaria, charter member of the Union for Environment and Nature Protection in Germany (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V = BUND) and since 1975 member of the scientific advisory council of the BUND
Since 2002: chairman of the Union for Nature Protection in Bavaria
Since 2007: chairman of the Friends of the Earth Germany BUND

Further functions

1976 – 2004: spokesman of the advisory committee Nature Conservancy of the government of Central Franconia (Mittelfranken)
2002 – 2011: member of the management board of the Agrarbündnis e.V.
Since 1982: deputy member of the supreme advisory committee Nature Conservancy
Since 1989: member of the curatorship of the foundation Ecology and Cultivation
Since 1990: member of the Bavarian academy Rural Space
Since 2002: full member of the supreme advisory committee Nature Conservancy at the Bavarian Ministry of Environment and Consumer Protection
Since 2004: member of the presiding committee of the European Nature Heritage Fund – EuroNatur
Since 2004: member of the broadcasting council of the Bavarian broadcasting (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
Since 2008: member of the foundation Cultural Funding (Kulturfoerderung)
2011 – 2016: member of the advisory council of ’Transparency International Deutschland e.V.’
Since 2013: member of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE)

Decorations

1986: Paulaner Forschungspreis
1995: distinction with the Golden Badge of Honour of the Landvolkverband Sachsen-Anhalt
2006: distinction with the Golden Oak Leaf of the German Forest Wardeners Association Bund Deutscher Forstleute
2007: medalled with the Bavarian states medal for merits to environment and health
2007: distinction with the Golden Cloverleaf of the city of Fürth
2009: awarded with the silver Bavarian Constitution Medal
2010: awarded with the German Federal Cross of Merit

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