As of: March 23, 2024, 2:06 p.m
By: Andrea Gräpel
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Anniversaries and guests of honor (from left): Mayor Georg Scheitz (Andechs), Korbinian Zanker (Water Management Office), Birgit Geurden (Head of BN Seminar House), BN District Manager Dr.
Helene Falk, Julika Schreiber (BN), Mayor Christian Schiller (Herrsching), Martin Geilhufe (BN State Representative), District Administrator Stefan Frey, District Chairman Günter Schorn, Mayor Michael Sturm (Weßling), Petra Speth (Government of Upper Bavaria), Mayor Rupert Steigenberger (Berg) and Mayor Rudolph Haux (Krailling).
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The Starnberg district group in the Federal Nature Conservation Association (BN) celebrated 50 years of existence on Thursday with “veterans” and other guests of honor.
“A successful model,” said Stefan Schilling, district chairman of the State Association for Bird Protection (LBV).
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- In the words of Konrad Lorenz - "you only love what you know, you only protect what you love" - the LBV chairman Stefan Schilling presented the district chairman of the Federation for Nature Conservation Starnberg, Günter Schorn, with a one-year-old serviceberry on Thursday a “tree of the future”.
The state representative of the Bavarian Nature Conservation Association, Martin Geilhufe, had an anniversary plaque on hand that would fit on the trunk - if the serviceberry is larger.
Geilhufe also had a stuffed beaver with him, which he placed at the microphone for District Administrator Stefan Frey during his welcoming speech, because the beaver, along with the lapwing, is a topic that nature conservation associations and the district authority are currently dealing with.
“There are conflicting departments,” admitted Frey.
“But we know what we have in each other.
We always find a common solution, even when there are points of friction.”
Herrschinger biologist Burkhard Quinger expertly analyzed the interaction with the authorities from the very first hour.
He himself was at the founding meeting at the Münchner Hof in Starnberg and became a member shortly afterwards.
Many scientific reports later, he is still passionate about it.
Hardly anyone knows botany in the district so well.
And he knew them all personally – the founders.
Including his father Gebhard, who, as general secretary of the Bavarian Farmers' Association, not only gave decisive impulses for the Bavarian Agricultural Promotion Act, but also for nature conservation.
In this position, says son Burkhard Quinger proudly, it never happened again.
The later district chairman Dr.
Fritz Schutz, on the other hand, had a feeling for areas worthy of protection.
Schutz and Quinger were connected by “going to church together”.
And in the district office, Schutz knew that District Administrator Dr.
Rudolf Widmann was a good school friend.
During Schutz's time as district chairman, seven nature reserves and 70 large-scale natural monuments were designated.
With regard to Frey, the biologist Quinger praised the fact that the district is currently purchasing many areas worth protecting in order to ensure their preservation.
The district group's greatest success is undoubtedly the rewetting of the Ampermoose.
In this context, Quinger mentioned the names of Robert Volkmann, who had fought for it at the time and who proudly sat down among the approximately 120 guests in the BN seminar house in Wartaweil on Thursday, as well as Christian Niederbichler.
The area manager “has done something with his responsibility in Ampermoos,” says Quinger.
But he also contrasted the successes with interventions in nature such as the Weßlingen bypass or excessive recreational use in protected areas.
To date, Günter Schorn has been chairman of the BN district group for 27 years, and it still has a lot planned for its anniversary year - a summer festival, for example.
A brochure with the “outstanding rescue cases” since 1974 and a 30-second cinema spot that the district group created and which will be shown in the district cinemas from now on were released to mark the anniversary.