Josef Ertl

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Josef Ertl (born March 7, 1925 in Oberschleißheim , † November 16, 2000 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German politician ( FDP ). From 1969 to 1983 he was Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests .

Life

Ertl was born the son of a farmer. He grew up in Oberschleißheim near Munich. After graduating from high school in 1943, Ertl initially took part in the Second World War as a soldier . In 1943 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 9,559,336).

After the end of the war, he completed an agricultural apprenticeship and then studied agriculture in Weihenstephan , which he completed in 1950 as a qualified farmer . He was a lifelong member of the AV Agraria Munich Weihenstephan student association. He then entered the Bavarian civil service and worked in the Bavarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1952 to 1959 . From 1959 to 1961 he was the head of the agricultural office in Miesbach as chief agricultural officer .

Josef Ertl had been married to Paula Niklas, the daughter of his predecessor in the office of Federal Minister of Agriculture, Wilhelm Niklas , since 1953 . Ertl lived in Bad Wiessee and during his tenure as Federal Minister of Agriculture also in the Wachtberg district of Pech in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia. On Easter Monday 1993 he was attacked by a bull on the family's own farm, but was rescued despite life-threatening injuries - including a chest bruise with lung injury and several broken ribs. Since then he has been dependent on a wheelchair. Seven years later, on November 10, 2000, he was again the victim of an accident on the farm of his son Christoph in Rott am Lech , in which he sustained severe burns by coming into contact with his clothing with an open fire. Treatment in the hospital in Murnau am Staffelsee could not save Ertl. He died there from his injuries and was buried in the Bad Wiessee mountain cemetery.

Political party

In 1952 Ertl became a member of the FDP . In 1971 he replaced Dietrich Bahner as chairman of the FDP Bavaria and held this office until 1983. His successor was Manfred Brunner .

Documents about his activities as state chairman of the Bavarian FDP from 1970 to 1983 are kept in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

MP

From 1961 to 1987 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was from 1968 to 1969 deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group .

Federal Minister

After the federal election in 1969 , he was appointed Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests on October 22, 1969 in the federal government led by Chancellor Willy Brandt . He also held this office under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . After the break of the social-liberal coalition , he resigned on September 17, 1982 together with the other FDP federal ministers. After Helmut Kohl was elected Federal Chancellor, Ertl took over the management of the Ministry of Agriculture again on October 4, 1982. Since the FDP had to accept considerable loss of votes in the early federal elections in 1983 , it was only able to get three FDP federal ministers through in the coalition negotiations. The Ministry of Agriculture was claimed by the CSU , so that Ertl resigned from the federal government on March 29, 1983.

Ertl was easy on the money that was donated. Ertl's “open-handed policy” even meant that the then Federal President Karl Carstens in 1980 had concerns about reappointing the Free Democrats as Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests.

Further commitment

The Catholic Josef Ertl became its first chairman in 1975 when the Catholic-Liberal Working Group (KLA, since 1997: KLAK) was founded. From 1984 to 1990 he was President of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) and then its Honorary President. He was also President of the German Ski Association from 1978 to 1991 .

Honors

Ertl was also the Economics Council of the Republic of Austria and an honorary doctorate from the University of Tokyo .

In memory of Ertl, the German Agricultural Society (DLG) has been awarding the Josef Ertl Medal since 2001 .

Cabinets

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Violence: Members of the Bundestag / I.-X. Legislative period: Former NSDAP and / or branch memberships. (PDF) Willi-Bredel -Gesellschaft Geschichtswerkstatt eV, October 20, 2005, p. 2 , accessed on January 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ As you are . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1980, pp. 22 ( online ).
  3. ↑ In large bills . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1980, pp. 28 ( online ).
  4. ^ Josef Ertl and the Catholic-Liberal Working Group (KLAK) .
  5. ^ Josef Ertl President of the DLG; Special volume 100 years DLG , p. 199.
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB).
  7. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.

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SURNAME Ertl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberschleissheim
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2000
Place of death Murnau am Staffelsee