Johannes Röring

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Johannes Röring (2009)

Johannes August Röring (born May 16, 1959 in Vreden ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and agricultural worker . He has been a member of the Bundestag since 2005 .

Life and work

Röring left the Gymnasium Georgianum in Vreden in 1975 with the secondary school leaving certificate and completed an agricultural apprenticeship, which he finished in 1977 as an agricultural assistant. He then attended the Higher Agricultural School in Coesfeld and passed the state exam to become a farmer in 1980 . He then worked as a farmer in his parents' business in Vreden, which he finally took over in 1985. He runs it as an arable farm with pig fattening and biogas production .

In 2013 and 2019, around 900 pigs each died in the stables of the Röring family business due to power outages. In 2013, a technical defect was the cause; in 2019, strangers entered the stables and willfully put the ventilation system out of operation.

In 1994, Röring was elected chairman ( district farmer ) by the members of the Borken district association of the Westphalian-Lippian Agricultural Association (WLV) . Six years later he became chairman of the WLV district association in Münster. On May 23, 2012, he was elected President of the WLV with 61 out of 112 votes, making him the successor to Franz-Josef Möller .

In addition, Röring is still a deputy district farmer and a member of the board of directors of the Westphalian Landscape Foundation and board member of the specialist agency for renewable raw materials . At BSB GmbH - Landwirtschaftliche Buchstelle (Society for Bookkeeping and Assistance in Tax Matters for Agricultural and Forestry Operations Westfalen-Lippe mbH) he is a member of the supervisory board. Röring is a member of the Presidium of the German Farmers' Association . Röring is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process. Johannes Röring has been married since 1985 and has four children.

politics

Röring joined the CDU in 1986 and was a member of the CDU board in Vreden from 1987 to 1995. Since 2005 he has been a member of the German Bundestag and a full member of the Bundestag committees on food and agriculture as well as a deputy member of the committee for the environment, nature conservation and reactor safety .

Johannes Röring has entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Borken II constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 56.1% of the first votes .

The Tagesschau reported in September 2016 that there are pictures from the Rörings family business showing seriously injured animals in the stables. Obviously, one of the animals could not get up and crawled forward with difficulty. Film recordings were made by the animal rights group Animal Rights Watch (ARIWA) and Peta . According to Matthias Gauly, a renowned veterinary scientist from the University of Bolzano, the recordings showed “the worst form of pig farming imaginable with a high potential for animal suffering ” and “with catastrophic hygienic conditions”. Many stable pens are very dirty, ammonia measurements showed values ​​that are more than twice as high as allowed. The photos also show carcasses , one was allegedly left lying for more than a day and eaten by other animals. Röring had his lawyer explain that the keeping conditions in the stable were "perfect" at the time the pictures were taken. In the pictures “nothing can be seen that could constitute a violation of the animal protection law”. The sick and injured animals were treated immediately. According to the letter, the carcass was "placed in the compartment shortly before it was admitted" to be photographed there. "Because the other pigs would immediately regard a carcass that is deposited there as food and start to eat it up." Corresponding bite wounds are not visible in the picture. The animal welfare activists from ARIWA deny having placed the carcass there.

On September 23, 2016, Röring invited to a press conference at his company in order to comment together with his son Christian and the farm veterinarian Jörg Tenhündfeld.

The Hamburg Regional Court decided on 11 October 2016 an injunction against the NDR that the transmitter unlawfully may not spread further on the operation made pictures and videos.

In 2017, Röring came under fire because he had participated in the front row with speeches in a demonstration in front of the Agriculture Ministers' Conference in Bad Sassendorf. He called for an exit from the ban on anesthetized piglet castration . Members of the SPD parliamentary group pointed out that the CDU had consistently hindered the establishment of alternative castration methods in the previous years, so that after the ban on anesthetized piglet castration there were hardly any options. Röring retained his political position.

In 2019, Röring clearly positioned itself against the planned tightening of the fertilizer ordinance .

Extra income

Röring has been among the Bundestag politicians with the highest additional income for years and is repeatedly criticized for this. According to a study by the Bremen Institute for Labor and Economics (IAW), interrelationships in agricultural policy are very common and Röring is one of the key positions here. In the ranking of the additional income of members of the German Bundestag (as of August 2, 2017), Röring is named in second place - behind Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld . By duty, all perquisites disclose the Internet portal has abgeordnetenwatch.de for John Röring in the 18th legislative term of the German Bundestag revenues of at least EUR 1,984,000 calculated which are composed of different positions. The official information (as of August 2, 2017) served as the basis for this. The portal cites him, based on numerous unknown sources, as a negative example of the concealment of additional income.

Röring's close personal ties to the agricultural lobby were a. in the ZDF satirical program Die Anstalt (from December 18, 2018) critically examined. The formulations used in it were subsequently criticized by the Chamber of Agriculture.

Criticism of Röring's conflicts of interest also comes from NABU .

In 2019, the Presidium of the German Bundestag found that Röring did not disclose additional income for activities at Landwirtschaftsverlag GmbH and Deutsche Genossenschafts-Hypothekenbank AG in Hamburg. According to reports in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (referring to the violation report by the Bundestag Presidium), Röring only met his reporting obligation after several deadlines had expired, despite a warning.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e http://www.wlv.de/teaser/2012/05/wahl.php (link not available)
  2. ↑ Power cut off: 900 pigs perish at the Röring farm. January 15, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 900 pigs killed - Now the state security is also investigating. January 16, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Denis de Haas: Johannes Röring is the new farmer president in Westphalia-Lippe. In: wp.de. May 24, 2012, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Markus Balser, Uwe Ritzer Berlin: In the mesh of the agricultural lobby . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 7, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 10, 2019]).
  6. ^ Members of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: bundestag.de , accessed on September 18, 2014
  7. ↑ Peta also filmed in the Röring stable. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Massive animal protection problems with farmer bosses In: Das Erste / NDR, Panorama v. 22nd September 2016
  9. ↑ Johannes Röring explains Ariwa / NDR video material during a tour of the stable. top agrar Video, September 23, 2016
  10. ↑ Stefan Werding: Pictures from Röring's stable may no longer be distributed. In: Westfälische Nachrichten , October 12, 2016, accessed on October 14, 2016
  11. ↑ Oda Lambrecht: Public prosecutor's office investigates peasant functionary. In: tagesschau.de. October 19, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016 .
  12. ^ SPD wants a statement from Johannes Röring. October 17, 2018, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ SPD is irritated by the behavior of Johannes Röring ›Dr. Matthias Miersch. Accessed June 10, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ The tightening of the fertilizer ordinance meets with criticism. February 14, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Marc-André Podgornik: Agricultural politicians collect the top extra income in the CDU. October 31, 2012, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  16. ^ Thomas Vitzthum: Secondary income: Bundestag top earners are backbenchers . August 5, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed June 10, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Study sees great influence of the agricultural lobby on politics. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  18. ↑ MPs collected millions from the economy. In: parliamentwatch.de , August 2, 2017
  19. ↑ Members of Parliament and their additional income - These are the top earners. In: spiegel.de
  20. ↑ Johannes Röring. ( Memento from September 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de
  21. ↑ Additional income - MPs collect several million euros from unknown sources. In: parliamentwatch.de , August 25, 2014
  22. ↑ THE INSTITUTION - THE FACT CHECK. The background to the broadcast on December 18, 2018. Retrieved on June 10, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Chamber of Agriculture Rhineland-Palatinate: Institution without decency. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Nabu criticizes felt in the agricultural sector. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Markus Balser, Uwe Ritzer Berlin: In the mesh of the agricultural lobby . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 7, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 10, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Röring, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röring, Johannes August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural functionary and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vreden