Fritz Pölking

Fritz Pölking (* 30 January 1936 in Krefeld; died 16 July 2007 in Greven) was a German nature photographer,[1][2] author and book publisher.

Fritz Pölking was a certified German Master of Photography ("Fotografenmeister") who started publishing books and journals on nature.

His magazine "Tier- und Naturfotografie“ ("Photography of Animals and Nature") was the predecessor of "NaturFoto“ which is nowadays published by the Tecklenborg Verlag.

Fritz Pölking was also one of the founders of the "Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen e. V." (German Society of Nature Photographers) [3] He lived with his wife Gisela (likewise nature photographer) in Greven in Westphalia.

[5] When a cardiac arrest caused his death in 2007 he left a body of work of 30 books including the German/English work Am Puls des Lebens/At the pulse of life (ISBN 3-88949-201-0).