About me

My love of nature brought me to inspiring people for nature and biodiversity by transforming weeds tohealing herbs:

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Explaining a plant after showing how to make a plant bandage (look at my left arm)

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Lecture on medicinal plants in a nursery in Tübingen

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Identifying plants with support

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Plant identification

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In front of the botanical garden of the University of Tübingen, before a plant tour about plants of the rought pasture

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Medicinal plants in the botanical garden of the University of Tübingen

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Spring bloomers in the park

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Identifying plants with support

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Identifying plants with support

„What’s blooming there?“ Even as a schoolboy, my aunt awakened my curiosity and laid the foundation for my love of nature. However, when I graduated in botany and biology at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany, the only jobs available were in genetic engineering labs.
Without further ado, I continued my education and turned my hobby, computing, into a career, becoming a computer scientist. For my 50th birthday, my wife Susanne, a naturopathic doctor, gave me the best gift ever – the chance to become a nature guide: „to acquire the necessary official title for explaining wild herbs, which you already do in your spare time anyway.“ This advanced training in Freudenstadt revived my enjoyment of nature, and I subsequently qualified as a BANU-certified nature and landscape guide.

… or to put it more officially, I am all of the following:

• Graduate biologist
• Business application computer scientist
• Nature guide
• Nature and landscape guide BANU (nationwide working group of nature and environmental protection academies)
• Lecturer at the University of Applied Forest Sciences in Rottenburg am Neckar (see also picture series)