Hans-Dirk Bierling

Hans-Dirk Bierling (born March 29, 1944 in Wernigerode ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and former member of the People's Chamber of the GDR and the German Bundestag .

Life

Bierling attended schools in Großenhain and Herrnhut from 1950 to 1960 and then trained as a bricklayer in Riesa until 1963 . During this time he also completed his Abitur. Until 1966 he then went to the engineering school for building materials technology in Apolda , after a one year break he continued his studies in 1967 as a distance learning at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar . He finished it in 1972 as a graduate engineer . From 1966 to 1972 he worked as a technologist and head of building supervision in panel factories in Meißen and Halle-Neustadt . He then worked until 1990 as a test engineer and test group leader for building supervision in Dresden. He gave up his job in order to concentrate on his mandate as a member of parliament in 1990 . Bierling was married for 35 years, widowed in 2005 and has two grown sons. He has been married again since 2015.

politics

Bierling became a member of the CDU in 1972 and was a member of the CDU's Dresden district committee from 1976 to 1990 and a member of the GDR CDU's party committee from December 1989 to October 1990. From 1974 to 1984 he was a member of the Grossenhain district council . From March 18 to October 2, 1990, he was a member of the People's Chamber and chairman of the working group for Germany, Foreign, Defense and Development Policy of the CDU / DA parliamentary group. He was a member of the German Unity Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. After reunification and the associated dissolution of the People's Chamber, he moved into the German Bundestag in 1990. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, various sub-committees and a member of the delegations of the German Bundestag to the parliamentary assemblies of NATO and the OSCE. In 2002 he retired from politics. From May 2012 until his statutory resignation from the board in May 2016, he was Vice President of the Association of Former Members of the German Bundestag and the European Parliament eV,

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Biography of Hans-Dirk Bierling . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)