Cajus Julius Caesar

This article deals with the German politician Cajus Julius Caesar. For the Roman statesman Gaius Iulius Caesar see there

Cajus Julius Caesar (2009)

Cajus Julius Caesar (born January 22, 1951 in Rinteln ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1998, with two brief interruptions, he was a member of the German Bundestag , from which he finally resigned in October 2017. Since 2018 he has been the forest officer in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture .

Life and work

After completing secondary school in 1967 at the secondary school in Lübbecke , Caesar completed an apprenticeship in forestry and then attended the forestry school in Arnsberg from 1969 to 1971 , where he also obtained the technical college entrance qualification in 1971 . From 1971 to 1974 he was a prospective forest ranger and in 1974 passed the second exam to become a qualified forest engineer. In the same year he became district manager in the forestry office Lage . In 1978 he switched to forest management at the Lippe regional association and finally managed the Kirchberg forest district in the municipality of Kalletal from 1980 to 1998 . In his time without a mandate in 2006/2007 and from 2009 to 2011 he was employed by the Lippe regional association as a project manager for forest management.

Political career

Caesar joined the Junge Union (JU) and the CDU in 1969 . From 1990 to 2013 he was district chairman of the CDU district association Lippe and has been a member of the board of the CDU district association Ostwestfalen-Lippe since 1992 .

Cajus Julius Caesar in front of the Reichstag building

Caesar was a member of the local council of the municipality of Kalletal from 1980 to 1999 and from 1984 to 1999 the district council of the Lippe district, u. a. as chairman of the environmental committee. From 1986 to 1999 Caesar was a member of the Regional Assembly Westphalia-Lippe in Münster and served as deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. There he succeeded in co-initiating the brickworks museum in Lage. From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the regional association assembly in Lippe, where he was parliamentary group leader for five years .

Caesar was a member of the German Bundestag between 1998 and 2017 with two brief interruptions . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he first won a mandate on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . Because of the necessary by-election in the constituency of Dresden I on October 2, 2005, the proportion of Union votes shifted within the states and Caesar lost his mandate again. On July 7, 2007, he replaced the retired CDU MP Reinhard Göhner in the Bundestag. In the 2009 federal election , Caesar was not elected to the Bundestag. On February 1, 2011, he moved back to the Bundestag as a replacement for the retired Leo Dautzenberg . In the 2013 federal election he was re-elected to parliament via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia. He did not run for the 2017 federal election .

Cajus Julius Caesar always ran for the German Bundestag in his home constituency, Lippe I. He was nominated as a direct candidate for the CDU Lippe in all elections, but always entered the Bundestag via the CDU's state list in North Rhine-Westphalia. After Dirk Becker ( SPD ) resigned his parliamentary mandate in October 2015, Caesar remained for the first time in his parliamentary career as the only member of his home constituency in the Bundestag and performed the duties of constituency member from October 2015 to October 2017.

Caesar's committee activities related to the environment , rural development, and food , agriculture and forestry. Caesar was a full member of the Committee on Budgets from 2011 to 2017 , where he was the main rapporteur for Section 10, which covers agriculture, food, social security, forestry, fisheries and rural areas. He was also an alternate member of the Food and Agriculture Committee . and during the same period forest policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

Memberships and honors

Cajus Caesar is a member of numerous institutions and associations in the field of homeland security and forestry . On July 14, 2015, he was accepted as a new member of the German Forest Certification Council (DFZR).

In 2000 Caesar was awarded the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Medal of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) .

On December 8, 2016, the German Forest Protection Association awarded Caesar the Golden Fir Tree , an honor that prominent laureates such as Angela Merkel and Klaus Töpfer had already received.

family

Cajus Julius Caesar is married and has three children. His father, his eldest son and his son are also called Cajus Julius and, like himself, are named after the Roman statesman of the same name , from whom Caesar does not want to be excluded.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 119.

Web links

Commons : Cajus Julius Caesar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Cajus Julius Caesar on parliamentwatch.de
• CV at the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Curious names: Cajus Julius Caesar - he sits in the Bundestag. Stern , March 22, 2008.
• Website of Cajus Julius Caesar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BMEL - press releases - "Away from the tablet - into the forest". Retrieved August 28, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Vita of the MP on the CDU-Lippe website, accessed on March 14, 2017.
3. ↑ LWL - LWL industrial museum - museum. Retrieved February 24, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} “My name is Cajus Julius Caesar!” Focus.de, September 21, 2013, accessed on February 25, 2018 . 
5. ↑ State list of the CDU in NRW ( Memento from September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Cajus Julius Caesar is again a member of the German Bundestag. ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) European Movement Germany , January 5, 2011
7. ↑ Bundestag election in NRW 1998. Accessed on February 24, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Cajus Caesar, Member of the Bundestag - Vita -. Retrieved February 24, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Members of the Bundestag committees ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Bundestag , accessed on March 14, 2017.  
10. ↑ Cajus Caesar: We want innovation and sustainability. Retrieved February 24, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Members of the Bundestag committees ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Bundestag , accessed on March 14, 2017.  
12. ↑ Vita of the MP on the CDU-NRW website, accessed on March 14, 2017.
13. ↑ AFZ - Der Wald, 16/2015, p. 42
14. ↑ Illustration of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Medal on the Internet portal "Westphalian History", accessed on March 14, 2017.
15. ↑ Kirsten Fuhrmann: Cajus Caesar is awarded the "Golden Fir Tree" | Kalletal . In: Kalletal . ( lz.de [accessed on February 26, 2018]).
16. ↑ PROJECTS - Golden Fir Tree - The Golden Fir Tree. Retrieved February 26, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Cajus Julius Caesar moves into the Bundestag. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , December 21, 2010, accessed on March 14, 2017.