Egon Susset

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Candidate poster for the 1987 federal election

Egon Susset (born June 3, 1929 in Wimmental ; † December 26, 2013 ) was a German politician ( CDU ), farmer and wine grower . From 1969 to 1998 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Susset came from a Wimmental family who had been involved in local politics since the beginning of the 19th century and provided several councilors, mayors and mayors. His uncle Eugen Richard Susset, born in 1896, was mayor of Wimmental from 1935 to 1945 and again from 1946 until his death in 1953.

Egon Susset's father Oswald Johann Susset (1887–1973) was a local councilor from 1946 to 1951. In addition to Egon Susset, he had two other sons; Franz Susset (* 1932) studied law and became district administrator of the Hohenlohe district , the youngest son Eugen Susset was a local councilor in Oedheim and had a fatal accident in 1987.

After attending school and training in agriculture and viticulture, Egon Susset took over an agricultural and viticulture business in 1960. Among other things, he was chairman of the Wimmental wine grower cooperative, vice -chairman of the Baden-Württemberg farmers' association and deputy chairman of the board of directors of the German agricultural and food industry's promotion fund.

In 1952 he joined the CDU and the Junge Union . In the party and the young union he took on various offices, among other things he was since 1962 in the state executive committee of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and chairman of the CDU city and district association Heilbronn.

In 1956 he was elected to the Wimmental municipal council, of which he was a member until 1968, in 1965 to the district council (member until 2004) and the district council of the Heilbronn district . After two unsuccessful candidacies in 1953 and 1961, he was elected mayor of Wimmental in 1968. He held this office until Wimmental was incorporated into the town of Weinsberg on January 1, 1975; then he was until February 11, 1977 honorary mayor of Wimmental.

In 1969 he ran for the first time for the German Bundestag and was elected via the CDU state list Baden-Württemberg, in 1972 also re-elected via the state list. In 1976 he was the successor of Erhard Eppler, the first directly elected member of the Heilbronn constituency, and was confirmed as such in the following federal elections up to and including 1994. In 1998 he was no longer a candidate. In the Bundestag he mainly devoted himself to the subject of agriculture and was most recently chairman of the working group on food, agriculture and forestry of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and a member of the Bundestag committee on nutrition, agriculture and forestry.

Egon Susset was a Roman Catholic, married and has four children.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Egon Susset died . Stimme.de , December 26, 2013

literature

  • Rudolf Hörbe: Chronicle Wimmental. Rudolf Hörbe, Weinsberg 1998, DNB 954091302 , pp. 234-237, 408-412, 424-426

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SURNAME Susset, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, farmer and wine grower
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wimmental
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2013