Christian Eberl

Christian Eberl (born March 9, 1954 in Göttingen ) is a German forest scientist and politician . From 2002 to 2003 he was a member of the Bundestag and from 2003 to 2008 State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment of Lower Saxony .

Life

Christian Eberl was born on March 9, 1954 in Göttingen and grew up in Nörten-Hardenberg . He passed his Abitur in 1973 at the Corvinianum in Northeim . After his basic military service , which he performed in the Clausewitz barracks in Nienburg-Langendamm , he studied forest sciences from 1975 to 1979 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After graduation, I completed a two-year traineeship in the Lower Saxony state forest administration. After the 2nd state examination and acceptance into the civil service, Eberl became deputy head of the department for land maintenance and nature conservation at the forest planning office in Wolfenbüttel . From 1986 to 1989 he was deputy head of the State Forestry Office in Seelzerthurm in Solling .

From 1989 to 1999, he was senior forestry adviser at the University of Göttingen at the Institute for Soil Science and Forest Nutrition and at the Forest Ecosystems Research Center in forest damage research. When Bernhard Ulrich doctorate Eberl with Scripture " quantification and evaluation of characteristics of forest site types by ökochemische parameters in Westharz " 1998 Dr. for. He then worked in the "Environmental Control" department at the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute in Göttingen.

In parallel to his forestry career, Eberl became politically active at an early age. In 1981 he joined the FDP and was in his home town of Nörten-Hardenberg from 1981 to 1987 chairman of the local association of liberals and from 1981 to 1986 also deputy mayor. From 1991 to 2002 he also held the position of chairman of the FDP parliamentary group on the city council. From 1986 he also represented the FDP as a member of the district council of Northeim , where he was a member of the district and waste management committee, chairman of the environmental committee and the FDP district parliamentary group. From 1992 to 1996 he was also chairman of the FDP district association Northeim. In 1988, the forest scientist became a member of the Lower Saxony FDP regional executive committee and was district chairman of the FDP district association in southern Lower Saxony from 1996 to 2000.

In the 15th electoral term, Eberl entered the German Bundestag for his party on October 17, 2002 , where he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . He resigned his mandate on March 20, 2003 - Angelika Brunkhorst succeeded him as a member of parliament - after he had been appointed State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment by Minister Hans-Heinrich Sander (FDP) .

In February 2008 Christian Eberl was put into temporary retirement because the relationship of trust between Eberl and Minister Sander was strained.

Together with his son, he then managed his two medium-sized forest operations in the southern Harz. From 2010 to 2020 he was a board member of the North Thuringian Forestry Management Association and has been chairman of the Bockelnhagen hunting association in the Sonnenstein community since 2012.

In addition to regional honorary posts, he was chairman of the Lower Saxony Nature Conservation Association (NVN) from 2008 to 2014 and has been chairman of the Northwest German Forest Association since 2014.

Christian Eberl is of Roman Catholic faith and has a daughter and a son. Among other things, he was a board member of the Hanover- based Rudolph von Bennigsen Foundation (2002–2010) and the Forest in Need Foundation .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Eberl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the German Bundestag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Wallbaum: A glass of grain for five years of government, in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 26, 2008.