Jürgen Binder is a professional beekeeper and a member of our association Deutscher Berufs- und Erwerbsimkerbund e.V. (German Professional and Commercial Beekeepers’ Association).
In addition to his beekeeping business he founded the Prof. Ludwig Armbruster Beekeeping School in 2014. He has been training new beekeepers for over 10 years and teaches recreational and professional beekeepers the
latest operational, scientific and ecological developments at an international level.
For decades, Jürgen Binder has not only campaigned for improved beekeeper training, but has also continuously called for a stronger focus on more ecological beekeeping and agriculture with stricter pesticide control through information events and campaigns. He also demonstrated his great commitment to the beekeeping industry by founding the New Beekeepers’ Association in 2022, which he chairs as President and which further expands his room for manoeuvre. In this context, he was recently able to introduce a group certification for organic-beekeeping, which was previously not possible in Germany. This makes it affordable also for many small beekeeping businesses to switch to organic beekeeping.
Jürgen Binder has been campaigning for the organisation of the Apimondia in Germany for many years. He is convinced that this world beekeeping congress an trade fair has an important impact in promoting international relations between beekeepers, the global transfer of knowledge, the ecological orientation of beekeeping and agriculture and ultimately a healthier, pesticide-free environment for the benefit of humans and animals. We are
convinced that Jürgen Binder, as Vice President of Apimondia, can make a critical contribution to advancing these important goals for us beekeepers internationally. We therefore support his candidature for this position.
Annette Seehaus- Arnold
President
(text source- Letter of recommendation – from German Professional and Commercial Beekeepers Association (DBIB)
