Bertrand Adams

Bertrand "Berti" Adams (born October 13, 1953 in Ehrang ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and former member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . Since July 2018 he has been the mayor of Trier-Ehrang / Quint .

Life and work

After attending the Ehrang elementary school and the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Trier , Adams completed an apprenticeship in the butcher's trade from 1971 to 1974 and received his master craftsman's certificate in 1977. He worked in his parents' business from 1974, which he took over in 1982. He is married and has four kids. He was a member of the board of directors of Sparkasse Trier , the supervisory board of EGP (Development Company Petrisberg), the DRK Ehrang and the trade association Ehrang.

Political party

Adams, who is a Catholic denomination, has been a member of the CDU since 1976. From 1990 to 1992 he was chairman of the CDU city district association Trier-Ehrang. Since 2004 he has been chairman of the CDU city council faction in Trier, so he was the top candidate of the Trier CDU in the local elections in 2004 and 2009. From 2005 to 2007 he was deputy chairman of the CDU district association, of which he is still a member today. Since 2004 he was chairman of the Trier CDU city council group. Adams gave up the office of CDU parliamentary group leader and all other political offices after losing the state parliament mandate in the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2011 .

MP

Berti Adams gained his first experience in local politics from 1984 to 1989 in the Trier-Ehrang local council. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Trier city council. On March 1, 2009, he succeeded the former state and parliamentary group chairman of the CDU, Christoph Böhr, in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . In the state parliament he was a secretary and member of the committee for agriculture and viticulture and the committee for the environment, forests and consumer protection.

In the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2011 , he ran as a direct candidate for constituency 25 (Trier city) and was ranked 38th on the state list. After the CDU was able to claim 41 seats in Rhineland-Palatinate, Adams, after losing the direct mandate against Malu Dreyer, initially slipped over the state list as the last member of the new state parliament. However, due to an error in the counting of postal votes in the Mainz II constituency , the CDU politician Wolfgang Reichel was subsequently able to win a direct mandate for the state parliament by 13 votes ahead of his competitor and the original winner of the constituency, Doris Ahnen . Adams subsequently slipped to number 42 and lost his place in the newly elected state parliament. As a consequence, he immediately resigned from his position as chairman of the CDU city council group.

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 17-18 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/region/trier/Heute-in-der-Trierer-Zeitung-Berti-Adams-gibt-Fraktionsvorsitz-im-Rat-auf;art754,2730607
2. ↑ http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/region/mainz/mektiven/10376384.htm