Horst Schnellhardt

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Kurt Oswald Horst Schnellhardt (born May 12, 1946 in Rüdigershagen ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2014 .

Horst Schnellhardt (2014)

Life and work

After graduating from high school , Schnellhardt studied veterinary medicine and then worked as a veterinarian in Halberstadt from 1970 to 1990 . In 1984 he received his doctorate ( PhD A ) as Dr. med. vet. at the University of Leipzig with the thesis "Influence of relaxation with succinylcholine chloride before slaughter on muscle metabolism and meat quality in pigs". Schnellhardt has been a specialist veterinarian for food hygiene since 1986 . In 1990 he became a district veterinarian for the Halberstadt district and in May 1990 also took over the management of the district veterinary office.

politics

Schnellhardt joined the CDU in 1990 and was chairman of the CDU district association in Halberstadt from 1992 to 1994. Since 1993 he has been a member of the CDU state executive committee of Saxony-Anhalt .

From 1990 to 1994 Schnellhardt was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and from 1992 to 1994 chairman of the parliamentary group working group on federal and European affairs as well as a member of the board of the CDU parliamentary group.

Schnellhardt became a member of the European Parliament in 1994 . There he was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the delegation to the ACP- EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly . From 2009 to 2014 he was the only member who represented Saxony-Anhalt in the European Parliament. He was a deputy in the Development Committee and in the delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia.

All of his requests to speak in the EU Parliament are available online in the archive.

Schnellhardt was rapporteur for the European Parliament for the EU regulations on food hygiene and spirits and for the EU directive on chocolate 2000/36 / EC, which was implemented in Germany by the cocoa and chocolate regulations.

Schnellhardt compromise

During the EU's “vodka war” before 2006, there were bitter discussions in the European Union about whether beverages that were not distilled from grain or potatoes should be called “ vodka ”.

The trigger was the beverage company Diageo , which produces its drink “ Cîroc vodka” exclusively from grapes . The governments of the states of the EU “ vodka belt ” argued that vodka should only be made from grain or potatoes, as well as beet sugar and molasses . Many other EU governments turned against this.

The Schnellhardt Compromise, proposed and enforced by Horst Schnellhardt, finally stipulated that vodka can also be made from other foods, but must then be declared as "Vodka made from ...".

Memberships

Schnellhardt is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament .

Cultural engagement

In 2006 Schnellhardt took over the patronage of the European Choir Night , which in Magdeburg mostly takes place around Europe Day.

Web links

Commons : Horst Schnellhardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Federal Returning Officer ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 22, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  2. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  3. ^ Archive requests to speak
  4. ↑ Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 (PDF) of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 29, 2004 on food hygiene
  5. ↑ Directive 2000/36 / EC (PDF) of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 23, 2000 on cocoa and chocolate products for human consumption
  6. ^ Text of the regulation on cocoa and chocolate products
  7. ^ A b Vodka was: "MEPs serve up a compromise cocktail" , a European Parliament news article
  8. ↑ "EU Farm Chief Warns of Legal Action in Vodka Row" ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2007 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. , a 25/10/2006 Reuters article  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.flexnews.com
  9. ↑ "A spirited was: The search for the real vodka" , International Herald Tribune , November 23, 2006
  10. ↑ “End in Sight to EU 'Vodka War' as Label Deal Struck” , June 16, 2007 source: Reuters
personal data
SURNAME Schnellhardt, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnellhardt, Kurt Oswald Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudigershagen