Jakob von Uexkull

Carl Wolmar Jakob von Uexküll ( born August 19, 1944 in Uppsala ) is a Swedish- German Berufsphilatelist, writer, founder of the " Alternative Nobel Prize " ( Right Livelihood Award), initiator of the World Future Council ( WFC ), a co-founder of the alternative World Economic Forum (1984 ) and founder of the Estonian Renaissance Award ( 1993).

Life

Uexküll, Thure von Uexküll 's nephew and grandson of the Baltic German biologist Jakob Johann von Uexküll, is the son of the journalist Gösta von Uexküll and grew up in Hamburg. He has Swedish and German citizenship. Uexküll studied philosophy, politics and economics, and made 1966 his Master of Arts in Oxford.

Due to the increasingly urgent nascent ecological problems, he suggested the Nobel Foundation to introduce one or two new prices for this area. This was rejected. He sought out yourself then two winners and led the award ceremony in 1980 in a rented premises by. After he had inherited a significant stamp collection and thus professionally acted, he founded in 1980 with the proceeds of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation and donated to as the " Alternative Nobel Prize " known Right Livelihood Award, the Humanitarian each year, social and ecological projects on the way to a better world and promotes active initiators alternatively characterized. In 1985, he was then invited to perform the ceremony in the Swedish Parliament.

From 1984 to 1989 Uexküll was for the Greens in the European Parliament, but resigned voluntarily after one term. From 1989 to 1990 he was on the board of Greenpeace Germany. He was awarded with the Salzburg local price for future research in 1999. In 2007 he founded together with Herbert Girardet the World Future Council ( WFC ). This works for a responsible, sustainable thinking and action on behalf of future generations. Its 50 members are drawn from politics, business, science and culture - and from all five continents. The Council identified through its network of scientists, parliamentarians and environmental organizations worldwide pioneering policy approaches and policy frameworks at international, national and regional levels. Jakob von Uexküll is founder and patron of other organizations as well as a lot of traveling speaker and organizer. On November 10, 2006 he was awarded in Vaduz ( Liechtenstein ) with the big Binding Award for nature and environmental protection. On 13 March 2008 he received the " White Hall" of the New Castle in Stuttgart the Erich Fromm Prize in 2008. 2009, he was honored with the Distinguished Service Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Writings (selection )

  • Publisher: The Alternative Nobel Prize. [ From the English translated by Erika Ifang ]. In: metapolitics Dianus - Trikont: Munich 1985, ISBN 3-88167-142-0.
  • Associate Editor: Projects of Hope. The alternative Nobel Prize. [ From the English translated by Martina Tichy and Gabriele ZELISKO ]. Ravens, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-922696-58-9.
  • The Early Postal History of Saudi Arabia. London 2001.
  • Associate Editor: Shaping the Future. The tasks of the World Future Council ( WFC ). [ Translated by Katrin Lorenz ]. Kamp -hausen, Bielefeld 2005 EAN 978-3-89901-046-6.
  • We are our children's guilty. European publishing house: Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-434-50611-9
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