Ernst Geprägs

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Ernst Geprägs (born June 18, 1929 in Grötzingen ; † May 20, 2011 in Hohenstein- Bernloch) was a German farmer, CDU politician , member of the district council of the Reutlingen district , founder and functionary of the Reutlingen women's association and the rural women's choir, founder and first president of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg , functionary and lecturer at the Swabian farmers' school , vice-president of the German farmers' association and chairman of the supervisory board of the Schwäbischer Bauer publishing house .

Political activity

From 1968 to 1974 he was councilor in the then still independent municipality of Bernloch and from 1975 to 1989 councilor of the municipality of Hohenstein. From 1980 to 1989 he was also the deputy mayor of his home town of Bernloch and for the CDU from 1971 to the end of 1989 he was a member of the district council in the Reutlingen district . As a district councilor he was a member of the administrative committee, the hospital committee and the committee for technical questions and environmental protection. In addition, he represented the interests of the district as a deputy member of the association assembly of the Reutlingen / Tübingen waste disposal association from 1977 to 1989. From 1975 to 2001, Geprägs was chairman of the supervisory board of the Schwäbischer Bauer publishing house in Ravensburg and its agricultural magazine.

Founder of the rural women's association Reutlingen and the rural women's choir

The rural women’s association Reutlingen was established in 1982 in the district farmers’s association Reutlingen. After Fritz Schnitzler founded the Reutlingen District Farmers' Association based in Münsingen in 1975, Heinrich Mangold from Münsingen-Apfelstetten was elected managing director. The Reutlingen District Farmers' Association began their rural women's work in the Reutlingen district with a summer training trip , during which the rural women got an insight into various industrial companies . On the advice of the president of the state farmers 'association in Baden-Württemberg Ernst Geprägs and the president (district chairman) of the district farmers' association in Reutlingen, Fritz Schnitzler , Mangold also organized regional meetings for the rural women in the Reutlingen district in the winter months . On June 3, 1982, the founding fathers of the state farmers 'association in Baden-Württemberg, Fritz Schnitzler and Ernst Geprägs, together with the rural women of the Reutlingen district, founded the Reutlingen rural women’s association in the Reutlingen district farmers' association. After the founding, Lore Lamparter from Münsingen-Dottingen was elected as the first district chairwoman . In 1991, at the instigation of Lore Lamparter and the country women, together with Fritz Schnitzler and Ernst Geprägs, the district country women choir was founded. The highest award of the association is the badge of honor The hardworking bee in gold . The rural women’s association in Reutlingen has more than 1000 members from 21 local associations. The Reutlingen Rural Women's Association is a member of its umbrella organization, the Württemberg-Hohenzollern Rural Women's Association , which the founders Ruth Wößner, Toni Teufel and Ernst Geprägs, founded on October 16, 1981 as the Southern Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern Rural Women's Association, which is a member of the German Rural Women 's Association. Objectives, educational and further training offers of the rural women’s association Reutlingen: educational and further training seminars in culture , family and health , information and educational trips, rural women’s meeting, interest group for rural agriculture and rural housekeeping .

Founder and first president of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg

In 1973, Geprägs became president of the state farmers' association of Württemberg and Hohenzollern. In 1989 the associations of North Württemberg-Baden and South Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged under the leadership of Ernst Geprägs and his friend and colleague Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler . Geprägs was the first president of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg from 1989 to 1997 and Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler was the first vice-president and first lobbyist in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . They are therefore considered to be the founding fathers of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg. From 1991 to 1996, Geprägs also acted as Vice President of the German Farmers' Association .

Swabian farming school

On December 22nd, 1949, Bernhard Bauknecht founded the Swabian Farmer's School in Bad Waldsee . The founding fathers of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg, Ernst Geprägs and Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler , built up and expanded the education center of the state association into today's education center . All three were, until their death, also sought-after specialist lecturers at this school in the areas of agricultural policy , ecology , economics , modern agricultural technology and rural agriculture .

Main agricultural festival

Ernst Geprägs played a key role in the implementation and as the main speaker of the celebratory speeches, in particular as co-founder of the state farmers 'association in Baden-Württemberg and first president of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg, at the main agricultural festival on the Cannstatter Wasen , which takes place at the same time and in direct connection with the Cannstatter Volksfest , active. Also at the annual opening of the International Green Week Berlin , Geprägs was a popular speaker in front of thousands of trade fair visitors.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Mangold ran the office of the farmers 'association in Münsingen for 34 years and after the district reform of the district farmers' association in Reutlingen , Südwest Presse December 18, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2016
  2. ↑ The rural women’s association Reutlingen celebrates its 30th anniversary on June 2, 2012 , Südwest Presse May 16, 2012, accessed on November 18, 2016
  3. ↑ Lore Lamparter from Dottingen became the first district chairwoman of the rural women’s association in Reutlingen , Reutlinger General-Anzeiger February 28, 2007, accessed on November 19, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Embossed, serious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Grötzingen , Alb-Danube district
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2011
Place of death Hohenstein- Bernloch