The occasion was the fifth Mainau round table by 16 leaders in the field of nature and landscape protection in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The signatories included Konrad Buchwald, Gerhard Olschowy, Walter Rossow, Ernst Schröder, Alwin Seifert, and Alfred Toepfer.
The charter summarizes the demands in 12 points:[1] In 1962, the signatories of the charter consequently also founded an association, the Deutscher Rat für Landespflege, the German Council for Land Care (DRL for short), which has set itself the task of putting the demands made into practice: through research, model projects and advice to authorities dealing with spatial planning and nature conservation deals.
In 2011, Hans-Werner Frohn published an article in the journal Studienarchiv Umweltgeschichte, Study Archive Environmental History[2] with the title 50 years of the “Green Charter of Mainau”.
Pioneering nature conservation and environmental document opened a window to modernity in Germany.