Eduard Lensing

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Eduard Lensing (born April 20, 1920 in Reeserward ; † August 27, 2004 in Rees ) was a German farmer and politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1972 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Emmerich in 1938 , Lensing completed an agricultural apprenticeship at Gut Eichholz near Bonn . From 1940 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier , most recently as a reserve lieutenant and battery chief. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in 1945. He then returned to Reeserward, where he devoted himself to rebuilding the family-owned farm.

Lensing joined the CDU in 1948 and acted from 1955 to 1962 as chairman of the CDU district association Rees. In 1962 he became chairman of the agricultural committee of the CDU Rhineland .

From 1949 Lensing was a council member and mayor of the Reeserward community. After the municipal reorganization , he was from 1969 to 1974 council member of the city of Rees . From 1952 to 1961 he was a member of the Rees district council and from 1955 a parliamentary group spokesman for the CDU. He was also a member of the Rhineland Landscape Assembly from 1965 .

Lensing was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1972. He was drawn into parliament via the state list of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia. In the Bundestag he was a member of the Interior Committee from 1969 to 1972 and of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry from December 1970 to 1972. In 1969 he was a member of the fifth Federal Assembly to elect the Federal President .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Lensing, Eduard . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Laade to Lux] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 733 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 4,9 MB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  2. ^ Reinhard Schreiner: Names and dates from six decades of party work. The chairmen and managing directors of the CDU state, district and district associations since 1945 (new states from 1990). Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Scientific Services, Archive for Christian Democratic Politics, Sankt Augustin 2012, p. 272 ​​( PDF; 1.5 MB ).
  3. Politicians with a solid grip. In: RP Online. April 20, 2020, accessed May 30, 2020 .