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Hartmut Vogtmann (born in 1942, in Essen, Germany) is honored as a pioneer in organic agriculture in Germany as well as other countries. He contributes his knowledge and direct engagement to promote organic agriculture in many countries. Specially, he acted as an advisor to Prince Charles since the 1980s in organic agriculture. From 2012 to February 2015 he was president of the umbrella NGO "German League for Nature and Environment" (DNR) with an individual membership of more than 5 million. He served this organisation from 2008 until 2012 as its first vice-president. From 2008 until 2011 he was the president of the foundation for the conservation of the European Natural Heritage "Euronatur".
Vogtmann was appointed as a professor for agriculture at the University of Kassel, holding the first chair for organic farming in Germany (and certainly European wide) from 1981 - 1994. From 1974 to 1981 Hardy Vogtmann was the first director of the Swiss Research Institute for Organic Farming (FIBL Institute) in Oberwil, Switzerland, and in this capacity he was instrumental for the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM), of which he is honorary president.
He is a member of the editorial board of the international peer reviewed journal "Future of Food Journal".
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