Helmut Rode

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Helmut Friedrich Rode (born February 28, 1931 in Nienburg / Weser ) is an entrepreneur and former German CDU politician . He was a member of the 10th and 12th Bundestag .

Life and work

Helmut Rode is a businessman and independent transport and mineral oil trading company . He is married to Ingeburg Rode, has five children with her and lives in Wietzen .

From 1941 to 1949 Helmut Rode attended secondary school (today's name: Albert-Schweitzer-Schule ) in Nienburg / Weser, from 1949 to secondary school in Petershagen with the Abitur in 1951. He then intended to start studying theology, but the request came after his father to support him in expanding his parents' company in Wietzen. Rode completed an apprenticeship as a wholesaler and then worked in the family business in the building materials and land trade as well as in national road haulage and mineral oil wholesaling.

Public offices and parliamentary activities

Helmut Rode was a member of the local council in his home village Wietzen from 1964 to 1976. In 1968 he joined the CDU. Since 1976 he has been a member of the council of the Samtgemeinde Marklohe. From 1968 to 1996 Rode was a member of the district council of the Nienburg / Weser district, including from 1972 to 1981 as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

On December 15, 1981, Helmut Rode was elected honorary district administrator of the Nienburg / Weser district. He held this office until 1991. As a district administrator, he was particularly committed to social issues in his region, the development and strengthening of village culture and homeland maintenance, as well as to matters of the middle class.

Helmut Rode was directly elected to the German Bundestag in 1983 and 1990 in the Nienburg - Schaumburg constituency. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1983 to 1987 and from 1990 to 1994.

Rode was a member of the Bundestag committees for agriculture, environmental protection and transport (here, among other things, as a reporter for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan ). As a member of the Bundestag, Helmut Rode took active responsibility for the “Christian Morning Celebration” and for “Christians in Parliament”.

Cultural and social engagement

Since 1954 Helmut Rode took over the development of extensive lecture activities in the context of village seminars as well as church and cultural associations and associations through his work in the Evangelical Heimvolkshochschule Loccum in addition to his operational work. Rode gave lectures on topics of democracy, society and work in the Bundestag both during his active political time and today.

Helmut Rode co-founded the village culture circle Wietzen eV in 1962 and supported the establishment of the music school in Nienburg / Weser and local homeland groups. He was deputy chairman of the Nienburg church district, member of the board of directors of the Nienburg Museum Association, member of the board of the Nienburg association, member of the board of the Nienburg district association and chairman of the board of directors of Nienburg gGmbH.

Commitments and memberships connect him with rural adult education, the Guttemplern, the DRK, the Wietzen volunteer fire brigade , the rural people of Lower Saxony and various medium-sized associations.

Since the beginning of 2005, Rode has been the home nurse of his community Wietzen. He is involved in the support group of the Wietzen home office . Since 2010, Rode has been building as part of the Wietzen e. V. started a history workshop in Wietzen . Here he wants to inspire a group of employees and bring the fallow social capital to life, use it to improve the quality of life and contribute to the maintenance of the facilities of general interest in the village.

In the lecture series of the village culture group "Wietzen - how it used to be", Helmut Rode gives self-researched lectures every spring on the history of the local companies and businesses in his home village Wietzen, the preparation of which often takes months.

It is his special concern to involve the new resident families in the village in the work to get to know and respect each other, and to work together with the school classes of the Wietzen primary school within the framework of museum educational measures. For example, he won a prize in the “Environmental School in Europe” competition with the Wietzen elementary school. For years, the subject of “From flax to linen” has been worked on with school classes in practice.

Awards

  • 2011: Honorary citizen of the Wietzen community
  • 1999: Homeland badge of the Nienburg / Weser district
  • 1998: Lower Saxony Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 1988: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

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