Albert Dess

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Albert Deß (2014)

Albert Deß (born April 17, 1947 in Röckersbühl ) is a German politician ( CSU ).

Life

After attending elementary school , vocational school and agricultural technical college, Deß was the managing director of a farming cooperative (agricultural master) from 1972 to 1977 . Since 1977 he has been in full-time as a farmer working since 1979 and also agricultural teaching master . 1990–2004 he was chairman of the supervisory board of Milchwerke Regensburg and has been chairman of the board of Bayernland eG since 1995. Albert Deß is married and has four children. He transferred his 42 hectares of agricultural land to his son.

Party career

He has been a member of the CSU since 1963 and was initially involved in the Junge Union . Dess held various offices at all levels of the CSU. From 1997 to 2012 he was a member of the CSU state executive.

Political offices

From 1972 to 1996 Deß was a member of the municipal council of his home town of Berngau . From 1984 to 1996 he was the second mayor of the Berngau community and deputy district administrator in the Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate

In 1990 he was elected to the German Bundestag . From 1996 to 2004 he was a member of the parliamentary committee of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and spokesman for the CSU regional group for agriculture, consumers, the environment and nature conservation. On July 19, 2004 he resigned from the Bundestag.

He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004 . There he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and an alternate member of the Committee on International Trade. As EPP chairman in the Agriculture Committee, he was a member of the EPP Group Bureau and had a central coordinating role in the Agriculture Committee.

Since 2009, Dess has been a member of the EU Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. He is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament . On April 12, 2019, his time as a member of the European Parliament came to an end because, after 28 years of working as a parliamentarian (MdB + MEP), he decided not to run again and is retiring.

Honorary positions

  • Chairman of the Association of Bavarian Professional Fishermen
  • Honorary district chairman of the Bavarian Farmers' Association
  • Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Renewable Raw Materials

Offices in the private sector

Albert Deß is a member of the cooperative advisory board of BayWa AG.

criticism

As a MEP in 2015, Deß tried to protect minibuses from stricter pollution regulations by submitting an amendment to the new EU regulation that originally came from the pen of the Volkswagen Group .

After the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016, Deß came under fire when he posted in a Facebook entry that all terrorists were Muslim.

Albert Deß has been campaigning against the tightening of environmental standards in agriculture and other EU regulatory measures for many years. In 2015 Deß demanded the removal of the greenhouse gas methane - mainly due to cattle breeding - from the NEC guideline for the reduction of greenhouse gases. The limitation of emissions endangers animal production. In 2018, Deß introduced a controversial amendment to a bill in the EU Parliament's Agriculture Committee - together with other CSU MPs - which was ultimately passed. The content and effect of the change request was that trading companies are not allowed to exceed certain statutory quality and environmental standards. Critics complain that this cap on standards only supposedly benefits the protection of small agricultural companies that (allegedly) could not meet higher standards. In fact, it primarily prevents a step-by-step improvement in standards above the minimum legal requirements.

Deß denies man-made climate change and calls it "scare tactics". He also criticized the fact that billions of euros were "thrown out for climate change". In 2018, Deß proposed UKIP politician and climate denier Stuart Agnew as rapporteur for the most important EU climate protection program LIFE . He then wrote a report in which, contrary to the scientific consensus on global warming, he claimed that humans are not responsible for the higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, that greenhouse gases are insignificant for climate change and that the climate is mainly influenced by cosmic radiation . Agnew's proposed amendments were ultimately rejected by the Agriculture Commission.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Albert Deß  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Deß | Resume. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ April 18, 2017 9:07 am: Lots of celebrities. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Peter Sawicki: "If the grand coalition fails because of glyphosate, then it should fail". In: Deutschlandfunk. November 27, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
  4. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  5. ^ Albert Deß | Resume. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Baywa Ag. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  7. ^ VW under suspicion of influence in Brussels ". In: Spiegel Online . September 24, 2015, accessed on July 9, 2018 .
  8. ↑ CSU politician: "All terrorists are Muslims". In: sueddeutsche.de. March 23, 2016, accessed June 20, 2018 .
  9. ^ 19 November 2010: Farmers fear EU cuts. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  10. ^ Info letter from the CSU Europe Group - Albert Dess, MEP. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  11. ^ REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the food supply chain. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  12. ↑ EU. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  13. ^ Albert Deß | EU directive against unfair trade practices presented. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Does the EU prohibit higher animal welfare standards? • Albert Schweitzer Foundation. In: Albert Schweitzer Foundation for our environment. October 27, 2018, accessed May 8, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Claus Mayr, Raphael Weyland: Environmental standards: neither statutory nor voluntary? In: euractiv.com. October 26, 2018, accessed May 8, 2019 .
  16. ^ Coal, coal, coal . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 7, 2018. Accessed August 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Dess, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Röckersbühl