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Gerhard Schindler
Gerhard Schindler (born 4 October 1952 in Kollig, West Germany) is a German civil servant and former President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German Federal Intelligence Service.
Life.
Schindler's parents are from Siebenbürgen and Bessarabia. He completed his Abitur in 1972 and spent his military service in a Paratrooper division of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces. He is an Oberleutnant of the reserves. He began studying legal science in 1974 at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He passed the first and
for his research on acid rain In 1989, Dr. Schindler moved from the ELA to continue his research at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, with studies into fresh water shortages and the effects of climate disruption on Canada's alpine and northern boreal ecosystems. Schindler's has earned him numerous national and international awards, including the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, the First Stockholm Water Prize (1991) the Volvo Environment Prize (1998), and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2006).
Early life.
Schindler was