Gerd Sonnleitner

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Gerhard "Gerd" Alfons Jakob Sonnleitner (born July 30, 1948 in Passau ) is a German agricultural functionary and until 2013 was President of the European Farmers' Association . From 1997 to 2012 he was also President of the German Farmers' Association ; on June 27, 2012 Joachim Rukwied was elected as his successor.

Life

Sonnleitner owns a 100-hectare processing plant in Ruhstorf in the Passau district , which has been family-owned since the 13th century . After completing secondary school in 1964, Sonnleitner completed an agricultural training and graduated in 1973 as a state-certified farmer and agricultural master. Sonnleitner is the son of the farmer Jacob Sonnleitner and his wife Juliane. He is married and has two children.

From 1991 to 2012, Sonnleitner was President of the Bavarian Farmers' Association . After he had been Vice President of the German Farmers' Association since 1994, he was elected as the first practicing farmer in the association's history to succeed Constantin Freiherr von Heereman as President of the DBV on April 8, 1997 and was last confirmed in office in 2009. At the beginning of July 2011, Sonnleitner announced that he wanted to withdraw from the top of the DBV and not to run again in the new elections in 2012.

In April 2011, Sonnleitner was elected President of the European farmers' association COPA for two years. He already held the office from April 2001 to April 2003. From 2007 to 2011, Sonnleitner was COPA Vice President. In April 2013 his term of office was extended until the completion of the CAP reform in 2013 and ended in September 2013. Because of his services, he was elected COPA's first honorary president in September 2013. On November 23, 2013, Sonnleitner was appointed UN special ambassador for the “International Year of Family Farms”.

Gerd Sonnleitner was a non-party councilor from 1972 to 1993 and the second mayor of the community of Ruhstorf from 1990 to 1992 . From 1990 to 1995 he was also a district councilor in the district of Passau for a voting community and from 1992 to 1999 a member of the Bavarian Senate .

In 2001, Sonnleitner received the negative Dinosaur of the Year award as Germany's biggest polluter from the German Nature Conservation Union . The award was justified with his “consistent braking performance in the matter of agricultural turnaround”, which is reflected in, among other things, his “remarkably simple” lobbying work, his “constant litany against every reform step, no matter how overdue, from the Federal Nature Conservation Act to the ecological tax "And his" permanent no to improvements in animal husbandry and the reduction of pesticides and fertilizers ".

Offices

Sonnleitner held numerous offices, including a member of the executive committees of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations and the German Raiffeisen Association , chairman of the supervisory board of the German Agricultural Publishing House , chairman of the central committee of German agriculture , member of the administrative board of the reconstruction loan institution and the supervisory board of the Munich and Magdeburger Agrarversicherung AG, of the agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO Corporation , as well as R + V Lebensversicherung AG (subsidiary of R + V Versicherung ), member of the cooperative advisory board of BayWa AG, chairman of the administrative board of Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank and member of the Hanns Seidel Foundation . As of January 2016, he is still chairman of the supervisory board of the sales fund, supervisory board of EGE GmbH Berlin, supervisory board of Fendt Marktoberdorf, advisory board of Baywa AG and member of the Bavarian economic advisory board.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ copa-cogeca.be: Curriculum vitae - Gerd Sonnleitner. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 26 kB) April 17, 2007.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.copa-cogeca.be
  2. ↑ Farmer President announces withdrawal: "I liked doing it" ( Memento from July 4th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, July 1st, 2011 (accessed on July 1st, 2011).
  3. ↑ cf. the homepage of the German Farmers' Association ( Memento of the original dated May 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauernverband.de
  4. ↑ cf. Conservationists choose Sonnleitner as a "dinosaur" . In: Die Welt , December 29, 2001, edition 303/2001, p. 4
  5. ↑ cf. Pötter, Bernhard: tamer of the dinosaurs . In: the daily newspaper, December 29, 2001, p. 10
  6. ↑ Ex-Farmer President Sonnleitner from Ruhstorf is now on the Fendt Supervisory Board. (No longer available online.) Allgäuer Zeitung , November 22, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 11, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.all-in.de  
  7. ↑ Search in the electronic Federal Gazette BayWa: Consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2009
  8. ↑ A list by Eckehard Niemann (Eckehard Niemann: The network of interests of the agrobusiness . In: Thomas Leif / Rudolf Speth (eds.): The silent power. Lobbyism in Germany. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 186–212, list on p . 210) names a total of 25 positions.
  9. ↑ http://www.bauernverband.de/hohe-auszeichnung-der-franzoesischen-regierung-fuer-dbv-spitze
personal data
SURNAME Sonnleitner, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sonnleitner, Gerhard Alfons Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, President of the German Farmers' Association
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau