An uncomfortable advocate for nature is celebrating a milestone birthday
Created: 07/11/2022, 06:00
By: Volker Ufertinger
Worth preserving: The Pupplinger Au and its preservation were one of the central concerns of the Bund Naturschutz in the early 1970s.
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The district group of the Bund Naturschutz is celebrating its 50th anniversary - at a summer party on July 17th.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen – The year was 1970. At that time, a group of people got together in Wolfratshausen who resolved to protect nature – even if that was uncomfortable.
One of them was Helmut Steininger from the Upper Palatinate, later state manager of the Bund Naturschutz and a key co-founder of the Bavarian Forest National Park.
The zoologist and explorer Hans Krieg also joined shortly before his death.
It was the birth of the district group of the Bund Naturschutz.
This will be celebrated on Sunday, July 17, in the Königsdorf youth settlement with a two-year delay due to the corona virus.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen: An uncomfortable advocate of nature is celebrating a milestone birthday
Friedl Krönauer (62), chairman of the district group with currently 2600 members, speaks with admiration about this founding generation.
"It was a time when the idea of nature conservation also arrived in politics," he says.
The founding of the first Bavarian Ministry of the Environment was around that time.
But: There were interdependencies between politics and nature conservation.
The latter was not independent and basically much too good.
"Steininger, Krieg and a few others changed that," says Krönauer.
"They have freed nature conservation from the grip of the state." In return they would have accepted being looked at askance, even hostile.
"Your message to politicians was: You can do whatever you want, but we'll keep an eye on you."
Friedl Krönauer, District Chairman of the Bund Naturschutz.
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There were enough topics in the founding years, from the preservation of the moor landscape between Loisach and Kochelsee to the establishment of the Pupplinger Au nature reserve.
And the district group of the Bund Naturschutz did not run out of them either.
One of Krönauer's greatest successes is having prevented a waste incineration plant in the district and having pushed through the idea of waste separation.
"That was revolutionary, today it is taken for granted." The Schlehdorfer currently sees a major topic coming up for the Bund Naturschutz, namely wind power and its consequences.
As is well known, 400 wind turbines are to be built in the suburbs of Munich in order to find an alternative to Russian gas as quickly as possible.
"We have to look closely," he says.
The protection of species should not be neglected even if you need electricity quickly.
We should be clear about how we want to continue living on this planet.
Friedl Kronauer
Krönauer believes that society has reached a point where it has to ask itself fundamental questions.
"We should be clear about how we want to continue living on this planet," he says.
"Do I need a flat screen again?
Do I have to walk through the booth with a T-shirt?” Excessiveness is a fundamental evil of this time, although Krönauer personally does not exclude himself from it.
He thinks the definition of prosperity should be reviewed.
The festival program on July 17th
The district group of the Federal Nature Conservation Association celebrates its 50th anniversary on Sunday, July 17, in the Königsdorf youth settlement.
The program at a glance:
11 a.m.: Panel discussion "Three years of referendum on species protection - everything good?" on the stage at the beer garden.
Discussion participants: Gisela Sengl (Greens), Alexander Radwan (CSU), Tobias Ruff (ÖDP), Ruth Müller (SPD) and Peter Fichtner (Farmers' Association), moderation: Dr.
George Bayerle.
2 p.m.: Heini Zapf plays with the Trio Zapf world music with swing, musette and tango as well as Bavarian, plus cabaret interludes.
3 p.m.: “Dr.
Döblinger's tasteful Kasperltheater" with the play "Kasperl und die Freiheit" by and with Josef Parzefall, Richard Oehmann and Stefan Betz.
7.30 p.m.: Hans Well & Wellbappn play in the starry tent.
Hans Well, Spiritus Rector of Biermösl Blosn, and his children bring a politically entertaining play with lots of music to the stage.
Tickets for 30 euros are available in advance at Käse Jäger in Kochel am See, at Raiffeisenbank Beuerberg, in the bookshop zum Winzerer and in the "Ois ohne" shop in Bad Tölz, as well as at Thanner watches and jewelry in Wolfratshausen and Baumgartner magazines in Icking .
In addition: Beer garden music with the BirnBaumBuam, information stands for herbalists, the state association for bird protection, the Oberland energy transition, the Linden Academy and the Solidarity Agriculture Isar Valley, extensive children's program with donkey hikes, excursions and games.
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It is time to think about the next generation, or rather: the next generations.
"I think it's better to leave the children with an intact environment than with a full bank account," says the father of two.
The glacial collapse on the Marmolada, the drought in Italy: "These are all shots across the bow." But there are also moments of hope for Schlehdorfer, for example when he recently heard a skylark in Upper Franconia.
It was considered almost extinct in Germany.
Panel discussion with prominent guests
For the 50th anniversary, the district group has designed an impressive program under the title "Brotzeit, Kultur und species protection" (see box).
The start is a panel discussion with an explosive topic: "Three years of referendum on species protection - everything good?" Peter Fichtner (district chairman of the farmers' association), Alexander Radwan (CSU member of the Bundestag), Ruth Müller (SPD member of parliament), Tobias Ruff (ÖDP -City councilor in Munich and co-author of the request) and Gisela Sengl (Member of Parliament for the Greens) an interim balance.
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