Gottlieb Braun-Elwert, who has perished on a mountaineering
trip with his friend Prime Minister Helen Clark, was a
mountain guide running a tourist business, Alpine Recreation,
in Lake Tekapo.
The Doc website says he immigrated to New Zealand in 1978,
has an MSc in Nuclear Physics, was a founding member of a
workshop "Physics and Ecology" at the University of Munich,
which researched the interrelation of energy consumption,
population density, and environmental impact.
He is a member of the New Zealand Alpine Club, German Alpine
Club, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society.
He served on the first round of the ‘Acland Group', the
ministerial reference group looking into issues of public
access to NZ waterways and rural backcountry.
Besides conservation his interests include nature photography
and filming.
Gottlieb has often campaigned to have "natural quiet"
recognised as a resource which needs to be protected,
particularly where it has been threatened by helicopter
noise.
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