Penzberg - Great honor for Walter Heußler: The Penzberg received the Minister President's Decoration for his many years of voluntary work.
Since 1994, the Bavarian Prime Minister's Decoration of Honor has been awarded in recognition of many years of excellent voluntary work.
This year, Markus Söder honored the candidates for 2020 and 2021 in one go, as the event last year had to be canceled due to the corona.
The Penzberg beaver commissioner Walter Heussler was among those honored.
The 77-year-old was nominated for the award by three institutions because of his many years of voluntary work.
Conservation and beavers
You should have been involved for at least 15 years to be eligible for the badge of honor.
A hurdle that Heussler jumped over with ease: he has been active as a nature conservation guard in the Penzberg area for 25 years, and has been the city's beaver officer since 2006.
Finally, he installed beaver scare away devices (Rundschau reported) to get the rodent under control in various places in the district.
His greatest passion, however, is not with the beaver: “I want to take people with me when it comes to nature and act as a mediator.” Heussler regularly organizes excursions, natural history tours, lectures and adventure days in nature for children.
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Walter Heussler from Penzberg explains in a lecture what the call of the mouse weasel sounds like.
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Lectures in schools
During lectures at schools and kindergartens, he always has his animal preparations at hand and shows the inquisitive children what the whistle of the mouse weasel sounds like, how big the wingspan of an eagle owl can be or how sharp the beaver's gnawing tools actually are.
Often at his side: his wife Erika, without whom “his voluntary commitment would not have been possible,” emphasizes the Penzberg.
Heussler last received the “Green Angel” from Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber in 2020 for his work.
