Josef Brunner (politician, 1928)

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Josef Adalbert Brunner (born August 12, 1928 in Ettmannsdorf , today in Schwandorf ; † January 25, 2012 ) was a German politician ( CSU ). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1980 to 1987 and again from May to October 1990.

Life

From 1943 to 1946 Brunner completed an agricultural apprenticeship in Richt, a district of Krondorf , which was incorporated into Schwandorf in 1972. He then attended the Weltenburg Agricultural College, which he finished in 1949 with the assistant examination. Brunner then went to the Bavarian Farmers 'School in Herrsching and the German Farmers' College in Fredeburg for one year each . After attending school, Brunner began to work in 1952 - initially as an employed farmer; it was not until 1955 that he started his own business .

politics

Brunner began his political career in 1956, when he was initially on the CSU list as a non-party district councilor of Burglengenfeld and as a councilor in Krondorf. It was not until 1960 that he joined the party. For many years he was a local councilor and then also a city councilor in Schwandorf, a member of the district and district assembly. He saw himself as representing the interests of the farmers. Since 1975 he has been chairman of the regional association of producers 'associations for quality potatoes in Bavaria and two years later he was chairman of both the potatoes specialist group in the Federal Association of producer associations and the specialist committee for potatoes in the German farmers' association. From 1980 he was chairman of the working group of the German potato industry and since 1987 deputy president of the farmers' association in the Upper Palatinate district. In 1970 Brunner was also an honorary judge at the administrative court in Regensburg.

Brunner was a member of the German Bundestag throughout the ninth and tenth electoral periods from 1980 to 1987 . In the first two legislative periods, he moved into parliament via the CSU state list. In the eleventh, he moved up on May 5, 1990 for the resigned MP Alfred Biehle , a few months before the legislative term ended. During his first parliamentary term, he was a member of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry, in the first two periods as a deputy on the Petitions Committee and in the last period, also as a deputy on the Committee on Post and Telecommunications. After 1990 he resigned from both the Bundestag and the Schwandorf district council.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. View of an unusual political career
  2. Oberpfalznetz.de