Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve

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Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve (1963)

Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve (born July 12, 1916 in Neuendorf near Elmshorn ; † January 10, 1990 in Glückstadt ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

From 1962 to 1975 he was Minister of Food, Agriculture and Forestry and from 1971 to 1975 Deputy Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein .

Life

After graduating from high school, Engelbrecht-Greve completed an agricultural training course. From 1937 to 1945 he served as a soldier in the Wehrmacht , most recently as commander of an artillery unit . In 1935 he joined the NSDAP with membership number 359501. Danker and Lehmann-Himmel characterize his basic orientation at that time as "adapted / ambivalent".

After returning from captivity , he took over his parents' farm ("Engelbrechts Hof") from Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht as an independent farmer . From 1952 to 1955 he was a member of the collective bargaining committee of the employers 'association in the farmers' association and from 1955 to 1966 he was the federal chairman of the German rural youth . From 1958 he was a major in the Bundeswehr reserve .

From 1951 to 1955 Engelbrecht-Greve was a member of the Herzhorn municipal council .

From 1953 until his resignation on December 7, 1962, he was a member of the German Bundestag and from February 27, 1958 to December 14, 1962, he was also a member of the European Parliament . He has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Steinburg and resigned because of his appointment as Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Agriculture.

From 1967 to 1975 he was a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein . First he represented the constituency of Steinburg - Pinneberg and, after the new constituencies for the state elections in 1971, the constituency of Steinburg-Süd . The state parliament elected him a member of the 6th  Federal Assembly for the election of the German Federal President in 1974 .

On October 29, 1962 Engelbrecht-Greve was appointed Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests in the state government of Schleswig-Holstein headed by Prime Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel . He kept this office under his successors Helmut Lemke and Gerhard Stoltenberg . On May 24, 1971, he was also appointed Deputy Prime Minister by the new Prime Minister Stoltenberg. On May 26, 1975, he finally resigned from office.

Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve was married and had three children.

Honors

On July 30, 1968, he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star and on December 12, 1973 the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Cross of Merit .

The Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel awarded him an honorary doctorate on May 28, 1975 for his achievements in the development of European and Schleswig-Holstein agriculture, for promoting landscape development and especially for his services to the sciences entrusted to the faculty for maintenance.

The Ernst Engelbrecht Greve Prize of the Federation of German Rural Youth is named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Violence: Members of the Bundestag / I - X legislative period of former NSDAP and / or branch memberships. ( Memento of January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, accessed on November 24, 2011; 63 kB), page 2
  2. ↑ Printed matter 18-4464 of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament , page 179, accessed on August 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Engelbrecht-Greve, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, MdB, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuendorf near Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1990
Place of death Glückstadt