Axel Schlotmann

Axel Schlotmann (born January 25, 1939 in Neuenkirchen (Steinfurt district) ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Axel Schlotmann was born on January 25, 1939 in Neuenkirchen near Rheine and lived in Holdorf in Oldenburg from 1949 to 1960. After graduating from secondary school , Axel Schlotmann completed an apprenticeship as a surveying technician in Damme in Oldenburg. After that, he was drafted as a conscript in 1960 for the Bundeswehr and 1964 on the second-chance education Bundeswehr officer with rank of lieutenant. In 1965 he was transferred to Nienburg, in 1968 he took over the district chairmanship of the Junge Union and six years later became CDU district board member and CDU district treasurer, then from 1983 CDU district chairman. He was awarded the Storm Surge Merit Medal in 1962 .

Axel Schlotmann was a member of the Nienburg city council from 1972 to 1983 and at the same time a member of the Nienburg district council. 1981 to 1983 he was mayor of the city of Nienburg. From June 21, 1978 to June 20, 1990 he was a directly elected member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (9th to 11th electoral term). In May 1989 he was a member of the Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President, was active in the federal specialist committees for foreign security policy and sport of the federal CDU and was chairman of the Lower Saxony CDU state committee for security policy. In 1991 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, and in 1992 Axel Schlotmann was made lieutenant colonel.

From 1988 to 1992 Axel Schlotmann was in charge of the Olympic training center in Hanover / Wolfsburg and from 1993 to 1995 he worked with the state government in Saxony-Anhalt with a consultancy contract . From 1995 to 2006 he worked as a freelance journalist and was a member of the Lower Saxony state press conference for several years .

He has been married since 1963 and has two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Press release from the Hanover District Government : Axel Schlotmann honored with the Federal Cross of Merit , October 1991.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 330.