Günter Altner

Who was Günter Altner?

Günter Altner was a German interdisciplanarily active scientist, biologist, protestant theologian, ecologist, environmentalist, writer and lecturer. Altner had briefly been a professor of human biology at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, subsequently focussed on theology, his second area of education, and was a professor of protestant theology at the University of Koblenz and Landau for 22 years.

Altner is known for his teaching and lectures, his numerous books, his role of co-founder and curator of the Öko-Institut and his activity as political advisor to the German government. With his expertise in ecology and in the theological reflection on environmental ethics he held a unique position in the German-language theological and political discourse.