Michael Succow

Michael Succow
Michael Succow

Born 21 April 1941(1941-04-21)
Lüdersdorf near Bad Freienwalde, Germany
Nationality Germany
Fields biology, landscape ecology
Institutions University of Greifswald
Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GDR)
Alma mater University of Greifswald
Notable awards Right Livelihood Award (1997)

Michael Succow (born 21 April 1941 in Lüdersdorf near Bad Freienwalde) is a German biologist and ecologist. His numerous publications are mostly devoted to the ecology of moorlands and his typology of moorlands is today used as a standard classifications strategy for moorlands.

In 1997, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his work, particularly his efforts to create nature reserves in Germany, Eastern Europe and Asia.

Life

Succow studied biology at the University of Greifswald from 1960 until 1965. He stayed at the University of Greifswald for yet another four years as scientific assistant. When he openly sympathised with reform forces during the Prague Spring in 1969, GDR officials pressed for him to leave the university. Succow now worked outside the university, but nevertheless finished is PhD thesis on moor vegetation in 1970. He then worked in Mongolia for several months before becoming a scientific employee at the Department of Agrology at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the German Democratic Republic, a position that allowed him to write his habilitation, which in turn helped him become a professor at the academy in 1987.

For a short period in 1990, Succow was the vice secretary of nature, conservation and water of the GDR. On the 12th of September 1990 Succow successfully pressed the Council of Secretaries of the GDR on their last meeting before the German reunification to declare about 7% of the soon-to-be dissolved nation as national parks and biosphere reserves.

After the German reunification, Succow accepted a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Berlin. He then worked as a consulted for the state of Brandenburg as well as on an international level, for instance initiating seven National Parks in the country of Georgia. He was hired as a full university professor for geobotany and landscape ecology and director of the Department of Botany and the botanical garden of the University of Greifswald in 1992.

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

With the prize money of the Right Livelihood Award, the founded the Michael Succow Foundation for the Protection of Nature (German: Michael-Succow-Stiftung zum Schutz der Natur), which, for instance, helped Azerbaijan to create a national park programme with up to eight reserves.

Michael Succow is a scientific councellor to a number of environmental organisations and institutions.

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