Sandra Chaney - Nature of the Miracle Years: Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975

Nature of the Miracle Years

General Editor: Christof Mauch, Director of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and Professor of North American History at the University of Munich

Edited by Christof Mauch

Edited by Philipp Gassert and Alan E. Steinweis

Edited by Alan Lessoff and Christof Mauch

Wilma Iggers and Georg Iggers

Thomas Zeller

Christine von Oertzen

Edited by Paul Betts, Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann

Sandra Chaney

NATURE OF THE MIRACLE YEARS

Conservation in West Germany, 19451975

Sandra Chaney

Published in 2008 by

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2008, 2012 Sandra Chaney

First paperback edition published in 2012

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Chaney, Sandra.

Nature of the miracle years: conservation in West Germany, 19451975 / Sandra Chaney.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-84545-430-2 (hbk.) -- ISBN 978-0-85745-840-7 (pbk.)

1. Nature conservationGermanyHistory20th century. I. Title.

QH77.G3C43 2008

333.720943'09045dc22 2008007619

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Printed in the United States on acid-free paper

ISBN 978-0-85745-840-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-85745-841-4 (ebook)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In working on this project, I have benefited from the support of many institutions and people. Research for the study was made possible by a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and from funds approved by the Faculty Development Committee of Erskine College. I am grateful to the helpful and accommodating staff at the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz and St. Augustin-Hangelar, the Politisches Archiv of the Auswrtiges Amt in Bonn, the Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv in Munich, the Hauptstaatsarchiv in Stuttgart, and the Landeshauptarchiv in Koblenz. The librarians at the Bundesamt fr Naturschutz went out of their way to assist me. At the film archive in the Auswertungs- und Informationsdienst fr Ernhrung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten, Mr. Meyer made numerous films available for me to view. Mrs. Inden-Heinrich took time away from her other duties to assist me in using the Deutscher Naturschutzring archives, and Mr. Jens Tnnieen and Mrs. Maria Stadler steered me in appropriate directions in the archives of the Verein Naturschutzpark and the Verband Deutscher Naturparktrger. Mr. Oskar Stritt and Mr. Thomas Heidegger, members of the Schwarzwaldverein, were most helpful in arranging for me to use the societys archives. The staff in the Inter-Library Loan Department in Davis Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sara Morrison in McCain Library at Erskine College provided valuable support for the project with their resourcefulness in obtaining research materials.