Günter von Nordenskjöld

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Günter von Nordenskjöld (born February 3, 1910 in Birkholz , Mark Brandenburg , † March 13, 1997 in Sulingen ) was a German agricultural scientist and politician ( CDU ).

Life

After attending elementary school and graduating from high school in 1928 at the humanistic grammar school in Cottbus , Nordenskjöld initially worked on farms in Niederlausitz and Neumark . In 1930 he took a degree in agriculture in Halle (Saale) on which he in 1934 with the diploma examination and the graduation to the Dr. sc. nat. finished. He then worked as a consultant in the Teltow district and at the Reich Board of Trustees for Technology and Agriculture in Oldenburg , until he took over the management of the agricultural branch in Cottbus in 1937. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier , most recently as first lieutenant and battery chief.

After the end of the war, Nordenskjöld initially worked as a representative for housing and refugee issues in the Lüneburg district . In 1946 he became head of the Sulingen agricultural branch of the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture ; since 1964 in the position of chief agricultural councilor. From 1955 to 1968 he was a member of the Federal Committee for the Improvement of the Agricultural Structure at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests .

Nordenskjöld joined the CDU in 1958 and was later elected treasurer of the CDU district association Grafschaft Diepholz .

From 1965 to 1972 he was a member of the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Nienburg constituency .

When the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt was announced in the Bundestag session on October 20, 1971, Nordenskjöld was one of three members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group who stood up to applaud the Chancellor, while the other opposition members refused this honor.

The couple Ilse and Günter von Nordenskjöld who remained childless took in 1950 their nephew Knut Teske , who has made a name for himself as a journalist and author, as a child.

Honors

Others

Nordenskjöld was a member of the Corps Teutonia Halle and Saxonia Frankfurt am Main (later Konstanz).

He was involved as a member of the board of the Diepholz district hunters, from 1976 to 1988 member and chairman of the district church convention and from 1972 to 1981 as an alderman in the Sulingen city council.

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 610.
  • City of Sulingen: Sulingen history and people , 2012, p. 196/7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 159, August 25, 1973.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 57 , 389; 29 , 134
personal data
SURNAME Nordenskjöld, Günter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkholz , Mark Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1997
Place of death Sulingen