Dr. Wolfgang Ehmke Dipl.-Agrarbiologe Lindenstraße 2 D-65232 Taunusstein Germany Tel.: ++49-6128-41938 Fax: ++49-6128-44505 eMail:                                                                       Name :                         Dr. sc.agr.  Wolfgang Ehmke Year and Place of Birth:   1946 in Kolczevo / Pomerania (now Poland) State of Family:            Widower, two adult sons (Alexander and Frederik) Education:                   1952 – 1956 Elementary school                                    1956 – 1965 High school                                    1965 – 1969 Military service                                    1969 – 1974 Studies of agrobiology (direction of plant production)                                                          at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany                                                          degree: diploma in agrobiology, section landscape ecology                                    1978             Promotion as a doctor of agricultural sciences                                                         (record: „magna cum laude“) Professional curriculum:  1974 – 1975 Scientific employee at the Institute of Landscape and                                                               Plant Ecology, University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim                                       1976 – 1983 Section Leader at the State Institute for Environmental                                                               Protection in Karlsruhe, Germany                                        1983 – 1986 Member of Parliament (German Federal Parliament in                                                               Bonn) and Speaker for environmental affairs of the                                                               Faction of the Green Party                                         1986 – 1999 Department Leader in the Ministry for Environmental                                                               Protection of the state of Hessen in Wiesbaden (depart-                                                               ment of landscape ecology and nature conservancy)                                          since 1999   retired Memberships:   German Society for Ecology and many other societies for nature conservancy,                           botany, soil sciences, climatology, and archeology     Last entry:  March, 2003.