Edmund Geisen

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Edmund Peter Geisen (born March 5, 1949 in Lützkampen ) is a German politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

After primary school , Geisen did an agricultural apprenticeship from 1963 to 1966 and then attended the vocational school and from 1968 the engineering school , which he graduated from in 1971 as an agricultural engineer (grad.). He then worked as a plant protection consultant and began studying at the University of Bonn in 1973 , which he completed in 1977 as a graduate engineer. He then completed a legal clerkship until 1980 . In 1980 he also received his doctorate as Dr. agr. at the University of Bonn with the thesis "Condition, development and performance of grassland with various pastures in the Bergisches Land" . Then he worked as a teacher . From 1986 to 2000, Geisen was director of agriculture and head of various state teaching and research institutes for agriculture and viticulture in Rhineland-Palatinate and, from 2000, consultant for agriculture at the ADD Trier .

Edmund Peter Geisen is married and has one son.

Political party

He has been a member of the FDP since 1990. From 1996 to 2012 he was chairman of the FDP district association Vulkaneifel, from 1998 deputy chairman of the FDP district association Eifel - Hunsrück and from 2001 member of the state board of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate .

MP

Geisen was a member of the Verbandsgemeinderat of the Verbandsgemeinde Daun from 1984 to 1994 and again from 2004 to 2006 . From 2004 to 2006 he was a member of the Daun town council and since 2004 he has been a member of the district council of the Vulkaneifel district .

From 2001 to January 15, 2006 he was a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate .

From 2005 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Geisen entered parliament through the Rhineland-Palatinate state list. He was a full member of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, the Petitions Committee and an alternate member of the Transport Committee.

Due to the failure of his party to pass the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal election , he was no longer represented in the 18th Bundestag.

Memberships

Geisen was a member of the European Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .

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