Friedrich Ostendorff

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Friedrich Ostendorff (2009)

Friedrich Ostendorff (born January 12, 1953 in Dortmund ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and organic farmer . He was from 2002 to 2005 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009 .

Education, occupation and membership in associations

After graduating from secondary school in Oberaden in Bergkamen in 1968 and after completing an agricultural training from 1968 to 1974, Ostendorff passed his master's examination as a farmer in 1974 . Since 1971 he has been a member of the Westphalian-Lippian rural youth .

In 1977 an agricultural internship abroad followed in Japan and in 1978 finally the takeover of the parents' farm in Bergkamen- Weddinghofen . His wife runs the organic farm today. In 1983 he converted his farm to organic farming.

In 1982 Ostendorff co-founded the Working Group on Farming Agriculture (AbL) and remained its state chairman for years until 1996. Also in 1982 Ostendorff was a co-founder of the Bioland -Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen. In 1988 he was a co-founder of the Neuland association for the promotion of species-appropriate animal husbandry . Ostendorff has been a member of the BUND state board since 2006 ; since 2007 he has been its deputy state chairman and from 2007 to 2009 its federal agriculture spokesman.

Political career

Friedrich Ostendorff, 2020 in the German Bundestag

After founding the Greens in the Unna district in 1980, in which Ostendorff was involved, he became parliamentary group leader of the Greens in the local district council in 1994 and in the regional council of the Arnsberg district government in 1999 . In the federal elections in 2002 he was elected to the Bundestag , but was only a member of the 15th electoral term (2002-2005), as he narrowly missed re-election as 12th on the North Rhine-Westphalian state list of the Greens for the 2005 federal elections.

In December 2008, Ostendorff again applied for a top place on the NRW list of the Greens for the 2009 federal election. The State Conference of Delegates of the Greens in NRW elected him on December 6, 2008 in Krefeld at number 14 on the state list. During the Green State Party Congress on December 3, 2016, Ostendorff was voted twelfth on the state list. He was able to prevail against his competitor Volker Beck , who received 22 percent of the votes cast. His direct constituency has been the Bundestag constituency Coesfeld - Steinfurt II since 2013 , after he was still a direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency Unna I in 2009 . His constituency office is in Altenberge .

In the federal election in September 2009, Ostendorff moved back into the Bundestag. From June 2011 he was Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. In the 18th Bundestag he was a full member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture .

Tasks in the Bundestag

  • Speaker of the Bundestag parliamentary group for agricultural policy
  • Member of the Food and Agriculture Committee
  • Deputy member of the Tourism Committee
  • Deputy Chairman of the German-Japanese Parliamentary Group
  • Member of the following parliamentary groups:
    • German-Baltic parliamentary group
    • Indo-German parliamentary group
    • German-Polish parliamentary group

family

In 1977 Ostendorff met Ulrike Oberhaus from Hamm (Westphalia) at an Amnesty International event in Dortmund . She became the first trainee on the farm and in 1981 Ostendorff's wife. Today she works as the head of the farm. In 1988 the couple had a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Ostendorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b page Friedrich Ostendorffs ; viewed November 12, 2008
  2. ↑ Information on its own website , accessed on December 20, 2019
  3. ^ Kirsten Bialdiga: Green Party Congress in Oberhausen. The farewell of Volker Beck . In: RP-online (December 3, 2016) ; accessed on December 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Ostendorff's short biography on the homepage of the German Bundestag (17th electoral period) ( Memento from February 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on November 9, 2009
  5. ^ Members of the Committee on Food and Agriculture ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) bundestag.de , online, accessed on September 18, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Ostendorff, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund