Holocene climate and environmental variability in NE Germany inferred from annually laminated lake sediments Understanding the role of natural climate variability under the pressure of human induced changes of climate and landscapes is crucial to improve future projections and adaption strategies. This doctoral thesis aims to reconstruct Holocene climate and environmental changes in NE Germany based on annually laminated lake sediments. The work contributes to the ICLEA project (Integrated CLimate and Landscape Evolution Analyses). ICLEA intends to compare multiple high resolution proxy records with independent chronologies from the N central European lowlands in order to disentangle the impact of climate change and human land use on landscape development during the Lateglacial and Holocene. In this respect two study sites in NE Germany are investigated in this doctoral project Lake Tiefer See and palaeolake Wukenfurche. While both sediment records are studied with a combination of high resolution sediment microfacies and geochemical analyses (e.g. µ XRF carbon geochemistry and stable isotopes) detailed proxy understanding mainly focus