Klaus-Peter Bruns

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Klaus-Peter Bruns in 1980

Klaus-Peter Bruns (born November 28, 1913 in Krefeld ; † May 12, 2011 in Göttingen ) was a German farmer and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1933, Bruns did voluntary labor service and then completed an agricultural apprenticeship. He then worked as a practical farmer in the Lower Rhine region , in the province of Saxony , in southern Hanover and in Pomerania . He took part in World War II as a soldier and was used as an infantryman during the war. In 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo . After the end of the war he worked again in agriculture and in 1960 took over the Reinhausen domain in Gleichen with 300 hectares of cultivated land as a tenant . In 1947 he was one of the co-founders of the Agricultural Social Society , which he chaired from 1978 to 1992. He then took an active part in the board meetings as an honorary member until shortly before his death.

Political party

Bruns joined the SPD in 1946 and was a member of the state executive committee of the Social Democrats in Lower Saxony . As chairman of the SPD sub-district of Göttingen from 1946 to 1964, he gained a great reputation as a "knowledgeable pragmatist and politician who always worked close to the people".

MP

Bruns was from 1952 to 2002 council member of the community Reinhausen and the community Gleichen and since 1954 member of the district council of the district of Göttingen . From 1963 to 1990 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . From 1966 to 1970 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, from 1965 to 1967 chairman of the committee for food and agriculture and from 1967 to 1970 chairman of the committee for food, agriculture and forestry. Since 1986 he has been the senior president of the state parliament.

Public offices

Bruns was mayor of Reinhausen and Gleichen from 1954 to 1981. From 1958 to 1970 and from 1976 to 1981 he was district administrator of the Göttingen district.

On July 8, 1970, he was also appointed Lower Saxony's Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests to the state government led by Prime Minister Alfred Kubel . During his term of office, the first nationwide waste disposal law was introduced in Lower Saxony. After Ernst Albrecht was elected Prime Minister, Bruns left the government on February 13, 1976 and was replaced in his ministerial office by Gerhard Glup . Bruns died on May 12, 2011 at the age of 97 in the Evangelical Hospital in Weende .

Honors

See also

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  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Czech in: Klaus Peter Bruns. A life as a farmer and politician. Göttingen 2nd edition 2016. Page 182. ISBN 978-3-86521-782-0
  2. ^ Thomas Oppermann in: Klaus Peter Bruns. A life as a farmer and politician. Göttingen 2nd edition 2016. Page 91. ISBN 978-3-86521-782-0
  3. ↑ Göttinger Tageblatt of May 15, 2011 , accessed on May 15, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Klaus-Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruns, Klaus Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2011
Place of death Goettingen