He is the founder of the Raptor Rehabilitation Center located at his own farm in Talagante and scientific director of the Gaviotin Chico Sustainability Foundation.

The middle sibling of two sisters: Katarina and Veronica Rottmann, he grew up in Las Condes when it was a rural area, now a borough of Santiago close to the Cordillera de los Andes.

[1] The revised list used as a starting point the report he presented at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in 1973.

Also during the eighties, the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio published a popular Sunday column titled "Chile: cosas de mirar" with text by Jürgen Rottmann and photography by his friend Thomas Daskam.

[9] The National Geographic Magazine called Jürgen Rottmann "the David Attenborough of Chile" in a featured article about is conservation efforts as the Director of the Gaviotin Chico Sustainability Foundation.