Franz Sauter

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Candidate poster for the 1976 federal election

Franz Sauter (* the thirtieth June 1928 in Epfendorf ; † 7. July 2019 ) was a German politician of the CDU . From 1972 to 1990 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1985 to 1997 Federal Chairman of the Catholic Rural Movement in Germany.

Life

Sauter was the son of a farmer and innkeeper. After graduating from high school, he attended agricultural school and passed the examination as an agricultural master. From 1944 he did Reich labor and military service; until the end of the war he served as an air force helper. After the death of his father in 1951, he took over the management of his parents' farm. Sauter was the deputy chairman of the Rottweil district farmers' association. He was involved in the Catholic rural people movement (KLB), became chairman of the Catholic rural people's association in the Rottenburg diocese and initially deputy federal chairman of the association. From 1985 to 1997 he was national chairman of the KLB.

Sauter joined the CDU in 1953. From 1956 to 1964 he was chairman of the district association of the Junge Union Rottweil and then until 1977 chairman of the district association of the CDU Rottweil. He was a leader in the CDU agricultural committees of the south-western state, was initially district chairman of the agricultural committee of the CDU South Baden and then chairman of the agricultural committee of the CDU Baden-Württemberg . In 1981 he was elected to the party's state executive committee. He was also a member of the CDU federal technical committees for agricultural policy and development aid and deputy chairman of the CDU commission for rural areas.

Sauter was a member of the Epfendorf municipal council from 1953 to 1984 and deputy mayor until 1981. From 1972 to 1990 he was a member of the German Bundestag . On August 29, 1972, he replaced the MP Eduard Adorno , who had resigned from his seat. In the Bundestag election in the same year , he entered the Bundestag for a full electoral term for the first time via the state list of the CDU Baden-Württemberg. In the following elections, Sauter was a directly elected member of the Rottweil constituency . In parliament he was a member of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry from 1972 to 1990 .

On November 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall fell , he spontaneously started the German national anthem together with Hermann Josef Unland (CDU) and Ernst Hinsken (CSU) during the session of the German Bundestag . In 1995 Sauter was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit .

Sauter was a Roman Catholic, married and had eight children. He died on July 7, 2019.

literature

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  • Documents from the local and federal politician Franz Sauter, Epfendorf, at the Rottweil district archive

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b In humility and with thanks for a fulfilled life in nrwz.de from June 29, 2018, accessed on July 9, 2019
  2. ↑ A strong voice for the agricultural policy schwarzwaelder-bote.de of June 29, 2018, accessed on July 9, 2019
  3. ↑ On the death of Franz Sauter. In: New Rottweiler newspaper . July 10, 2019, accessed July 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder : Personnel. In: The Parliament . June 18, 2018, accessed July 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Obituary of the CDU Rottweil, accessed on July 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Sauter, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Epfendorf
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 2019
Place of death Epfendorf