Hans Bookmeyer

Hans Bookmeyer (born October 15, 1955 in Mittegroßefehn ) is a German politician . He is married and has five children.

education and profession

After graduating from high school, Bookmeyer first studied law for two semesters and then did his basic military service. He then took up a degree in Protestant theology and worked as a student assistant from 1977 to 1980. After the 1st theological exam he was vicar in Victorbur in East Friesland in 1982/83 . After a preacher's seminar, he took his second theological exam in 1984 and was pastor in Hasbergen near Osnabrück from 1985 to 1986 . From 1987 until the election in the state parliament in 1998 pastor to Dornum and Resterhafe in East Friesland and from 2003 to 2005 pastor in the north . After leaving the state parliament in 2008, Bookmeyer was pastor in Ochtelbur , Bangstede and Barstede from 2009 to 2013 . Afterwards he became pastor for special tasks in the church district Aurich, d. i.e., he took on vacancies and vacation replacements.

politics

From 1973 to 2011 Bookmeyer was a member of the CDU . He was a founding member of the Junge Union in Großefehn and was a member of the board there until 1977. From 1991 to 2011 he was councilor of the Dornum community, most recently council chairman. In 1992 he became deputy chairman of the Aurich CDU district association. Since 1993 he has been a member of the state board of the Evangelical Working Group (EAK) of the CDU in Lower Saxony, and from 1998 he was state chairman. From 1999 he was also a member of the federal executive committee of the EAK.

Bookmeyer was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1998 to 2003 and returned to the state parliament in 2005 for Thorsten Thümler . After the state elections in 2008, he left the state parliament.

In 2012 Bookmeyer joined the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . He justified this step with his commitment to the preservation of creation, which is more convincing with the Greens than in his old party.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pastor from Dornum has changed camp. In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung , January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 13, 2012.