Karl-Arnold Eickmeyer
Karl-Arnold Eickmeyer (born June 7, 1925 in Lüdingworth ; † October 12, 2007 ) was a German politician (until 1986 SPD ). From 1977 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1987 he was a member of the Bundestag .
biography
education and profession
Eickmeyer graduated from elementary school, took part in an advanced course from 1939 and then attended a teacher training institute until 1943 . He then did his Reich Labor Service and volunteered for the Parachute Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring . After the end of the war he initially worked as a farm worker. In 1946 he studied at the Lüneburg University of Education ; History, German and psychology were his major fields of study.
Eickmeyer worked as a teacher in Grünendeich from 1948 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1967 he was headmaster in Gudendorf and from 1967 to 1977 rector in Franzenburg .
Since 1948 he has been a part-time beekeeper . He was the editor of the Nordwestdeutsche Beekeeping Newspaper and spokesman for the professional beekeeping group on the board of the German Beekeeping Association .
Eickmeyer was married and had three daughters.
politics
In 1968 Eickmeyer joined the SPD. In the same year he became chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the council of the Altenwalde community . After its incorporation into the independent city of Cuxhaven , he was a member of the local city council from 1972. When the Cuxhaven district was formed from Cuxhaven and two neighboring districts in 1977 , Eickmeyer became a district member.
In the 1976 federal election , Eickmeyer stood as a candidate on the SPD's Lower Saxony state list. When Olaf Sund became a Berlin Senator in May 1977 and resigned his Bundestag mandate, Eickmeyer moved up. In the 1980 Bundestag election , Eickmeyer won the direct mandate in the Cuxhaven constituency . In the Bundestag he was a member of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry. Coastal protection and fishing were among his political priorities. In 1983 he lost the direct mandate to Wolfgang von Geldern (CDU) and initially resigned from the Bundestag. After the death of Walter Polkehn, he moved back to the Bundestag in August 1985, to which he was a member until 1987, but from October 1986 as a non-attached member of parliament after he resigned from the SPD “in protest against hierarchy and civic distance”.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (October 20, 1980)
- Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class (December 15, 1983)
- Bearer of the ring of honor of the city of Cuxhaven
source
- Kürschner Volks Handbuch Deutscher Bundestag, 35th edition, Rheinbreitbach 1982, p. 72.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eickmeyer, Karl-Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludingworth |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 2007 |