Burkhard Ritz

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Ritz on a poster from the 1980s

Burkhard Ritz (born August 4, 1931 in Deutsch Krone , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia ) is a German farmer and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Ritz was born the son of a teacher and grew up in Pomerania . After attending elementary school and high school in Schneidemühl , he fled with his family as a displaced person to Thuringia and worked there in agriculture for a year. Afterwards he moved to West Germany .

After attending secondary school in Castrop-Rauxel and graduating from Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium in Osnabrück in 1952 , Ritz completed an agricultural training course, which he completed in 1953 with the assistant test. He then took up a degree in agricultural sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which he finished in 1956 with the examination to become a qualified farmer. There he became a member of the KDSt.V. Rheinfels Bonn (later merged with KDSt.V. Ascania Bonn ) in the CV . From 1957 to 1965 he worked as a lecturer at the rural community college in Oesede . In 1959 he had the work The rural home folk high schools in Lower Saxony - A contribution to adult education in the country to the Dr. agr. PhD.

Ritz was federal chairman of the Catholic rural people movement from 1969 to 1972 . He worked for a long time in the social service of Catholic men in Lingen , of which he was chairman from 1994 to 2008. He became president of the Lower Saxony state traffic watch in 1995 and was president of the German traffic watch from 1995 to 2001 . Today he is Honorary President of the German Traffic Guard. Ritz lives in Lingen, is married and has four children.

Political party

Ritz joined the CDU in 1956, joined the Junge Union (JU) and was a member of the JU federal board from 1965 to 1967. In 1975 he was elected to the CDU federal executive committee, of which he was a member until 1983, and was chairman of the federal committee for agricultural policy until 1980. He has also been Deputy Chairman of the Hermann Ehlers Foundation since 1970 .

MP

From 1960 to 1965, Ritz was a council member of the community of Oesede , which has been a district of Georgsmarienhütte since 1970 through the amalgamation of several communities . In the federal election in 1965 he was elected to the German Bundestag via a direct mandate in the constituency of Bersenbrück . From 1972 to 1980 he was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . 1979/80 he acted as President of the German Parliamentary Society . Shortly before his appointment as Minister of Finance of Lower Saxony , he resigned from the Bundestag on December 2, 1980. He was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the 10th to 12th electoral period from June 21, 1982 to June 20, 1994.

Public offices

Ritz was honorary mayor of the community of Oesede from 1963 to 1965 as the successor to the fatally injured mayor Wallrath Eichberg. After Walther Leisler Kieps switched to federal politics, he was appointed finance minister in the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht on December 3, 1980 . In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he changed on July 9, 1986 and became Lower Saxony's Minister of Agriculture . After the CDU was defeated in the state elections in May 1990 , he left the government on June 21, 1990 and was replaced in his office by Karl-Heinz Funke .

Honors

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burkhard Müller: Lingen: Burkhard Ritz is 80 today. In: noz.de. August 4, 2011, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Petra Pieper: Ex-Mayor as a guest: City history get-together with Burkhard Ritz in GMHütte. In: noz.de. October 5, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ "Prime Minister David McAllister awarded the Great Cross of Merit to Dr. Burkhard Ritz ” , Osnabrück newspaper , November 22, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Ritz, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH German crown