Johannes Frizen

Johannes Frizen (born March 28, 1949 in Bonn ) is a German farmer and animal breeder , he was President of the Chamber of Agriculture in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2017 and President of the Association of Chambers of Agriculture in Berlin from 2012 to January 2018 .

Life

Johannes Frizen completed an agricultural training after attending the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Realschule in Bonn. As early as 1972 he took over his parents' business in Alfter (Ramelshoven), which he specialized in the production of pome fruit and the breeding of beef cattle. He passed his master gardener examination in the field of fruit growing in 1975. Since 1976 Johannes Frizen has been breeding beef cattle of the Limousin and Blonde d'Aquitaine breeds with great enthusiasm .

He is married and has four grown children.

Honorary positions

In 1995 he was elected chairman of the Bonn Beef Cattle Herdbook, the breeding association of beef cattle breeders from North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. A year later he became deputy chairman of the Federal Association of German Beef Cattle Breeders and Beef Cattle Farmers, of which he was chairman from 2002 to 2017.

Johannes Frizen began working for the Chamber of Agriculture in 1991 as a member of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture . From 1999 to the end of 2003 he was its vice-president. In January 2004 he was elected Vice-President of the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Agriculture, which had been created from the two chambers of agriculture in Rhineland and Westphalia-Lippe, and was elected President the following year. At the end of 2014, the general assembly of the Chamber of Agriculture confirmed him for a further three years in this office, which he held until December 8, 2017. In March 2012 in Berlin, Frizen was elected President of the Association of Chambers of Agriculture (VLK) in Germany. In January 2018 he was replaced by Gerhard Schwetje, President of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture. He also performs other voluntary tasks as a district farmer in the Rhein-Sieg district .

Honors

• In 2015 Johannes Frizen was awarded the Theodor Brinkmann Prize .

Web links

• Association of Chambers of Agriculture
• Chamber of Agriculture North Rhine Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Frizen at the Chamber of Agriculture
2. ^ Johannes Frizen in the Generalanzeiger Bonn
3. ↑ Johannes Frizen on the occasion of his birthday in 2014
4. ↑ Prize winners ( Memento of the original dated February 9, 2018 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 February 8, 2018.