Lecturer

B.Sc. Sustainability Management in Spatial Development

Armin Bihlmaier

Biology graduate, nature educator, nature and landscape guide (BANU-certified)
His love of nature and curiosity about everything that blooms were instilled in him by his family.
After completing his studies, he swapped his hobby for his profession and from then on worked as a computer scientist.
However, he was still only ever out and about in nature with an identification book, showing and explaining to anyone interested what was growing and flowering by the wayside.
That's why his wife gave him the gift of training as a nature educator for his 50th birthday, after which he became a nature and landscape guide.
From then on, there was no stopping him – regular guided tours and lectures, especially at the Weggental citizens' project, filled many weekends.
He has also recently become involved in the environmental department of Rottenburg town council.
To get even more people interested in local plants, he and his wife photographed and wrote the pocket guide "Notfallapotheke aus und in der Natur" (Emergency first-aid kit from and in nature).
Since 2019, he has been a lecturer for the wild plants course at the University of Applied Forest Sciences in Rottenburg.

Dr. Katharina Franziska Braig,

LL.M. in political science and law in Strasbourg (France), followed by an LL.M. in European law in London (United Kingdom), a doctorate in environmental law at the Universities of Strasbourg and Basel (Switzerland), and mediation training in Freiburg i. Br. Since then, she has worked in both the private and public sectors, particularly in the environmental and energy fields. Since 2015, she has been a lecturer in environmental law and policy at the Rottenburg University of Applied Forest Sciences.

Landscape Architect Olfert Dorka

Managing Director of UmweltDienst Dorka GmbH in Freudenstadt

My educational work began in 1980 with seminars on nature topics and eventually culminated in 1994 with the founding of the seminar house "Naturkolleg Hirzwald" as a meeting and experience center for nature relationships.
In the exchange of ideas and actions with other people, seminar and training concepts emerged that, in addition to imparting knowledge, place greater emphasis on the emotional level and personal spirituality, thereby fostering and solidifying a vibrant relationship with creation.
Especially from my professional activities and numerous contacts with nature-oriented landscapes all the way to Siberia and Mongolia, an understanding of the impact of landscapes on our well-being developed. These many years of experience encouraged me to establish and implement a training program in "Landscape Therapy" starting in 2008.

Dr. Mario Roidt

B.Sc. Water Resource Management at the University of Applied Sciences Rottenburg.
M.Sc. Hydro Science and Engineering at TU Dresden. Ph.D. in Natural Sciences at the University of Tübingen on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach.
Professionally engaged in development cooperation. First as a project engineer in consulting in Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Kosovo, and since 2021 as a portfolio manager for financial cooperation at the German Development Bank (KfW).
Since 2016, lecturer in the Water Resource Management program in the seminar "Hydropower and Energy Economics." Since 2026, lecturer for "Scientific Writing" in the NaReG program.

Dr. Siegfried Roth

Head of the Wurzacher Ried Nature Conservation Centre

Studied agricultural sciences at the University of Hohenheim, biology and a doctorate at the Philipps University of Marburg, and educational sciences at the Ludwigsburg University of Teacher Education. Doctorate in the field of ecosystem management and rewetting of fens.

Professional experience: Head of the Wernau-Leutkirch Rural Adult Education Centre, Managing Director of the Swabian Heritage Association, Head of the NABU project "Moore mit Stern", Managing Director of the UNESCO Global Geopark Swabian Alb, currently Head of the Wurzacher Ried Nature Conservation Centre.

Christoph Winkelkötter

Born 1972
Studied applied geography at the University of Trier

Since 01/2017, Chairman of the Management Board of Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Tourismusentwicklung im Landkreis Starnberg mbH
07/2004 – 12/2016 Managing Director of Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Beschäftigungsentwicklung im Landkreis Starnberg GmbH
01/2000 – 06/2004 Project developer, Dynamis GmbH, Munich

Since the winter semester 2021/22, a lecturer at the Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences in the field of economic development.