Ernst-Ulrich Pentecost

Ernst-Ulrich Pfingsten , also just Ernst Pfingsten (born September 30, 1912 in Hagen ; † February 23, 2000 in Hanover ), was a German farmer and politician . He was State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (1976–1979).

Life

Born as the son of a farmer, he attended elementary school and the reform high school in Hagen before working in his father's business from 1932. From 1934 he studied agriculture at the TH Munich , where he became a member of the Cimbria Munich fraternity in the same year . In 1937 he passed his diploma examination in Bonn , became a doctoral candidate and in 1938 an agricultural science assistant at the University of Bonn . During the Second World War he served from 1939 to 1945, most recently as first lieutenant in the artillery; He lost his left hand in 1941 on the Eastern Front near Stalino (today's Donetsk ) when he was wounded with a hand grenade fragment. In the same year he was promoted to Dr. agr. PhD .

From 1947 he worked at the Hanover State Food Office, then at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry. In 1964 he was promoted to government director, 1966 Ministerialrat and 1969 Senior Ministerialrat. In 1976 he became State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests.

Publications

• The effect of lignite and the humus substances made from it on the physical properties of light soils. Würzburg 1939. Dissertation University of Bonn.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 143-144.