Kurt Rossmanith

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Kurt J. Rossmanith (born November 22, 1944 in Raase , Freudenthal district in the Reichsgau Sudetenland ) is a German politician ( CSU ).

Life and work

After completing secondary school at the Staatliche Realschule Kaufbeuren , Rossmanith completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and then did his military service from 1963 to 1965 . He then worked as the head of the export department of a company until 1971 and, after re-training, worked as a career advisor from 1974 to 1980 .

Since leaving the Bundestag he has worked for a management consultancy in Berlin. He is a reserve officer with the rank of colonel .

Kurt Rossmanith is married and has four children from his first marriage.

Politician

Rossmanith joined the CSU in 1967 and is a member of the board of the CSU District Association of Swabia .

From 1978 to 1999 he sat in the district council of the Ostallgäu district and was a member of the German Bundestag from 1980 to 2009 . There Rossmanith worked since 1994 as chairman of the parliamentary group for aerospace and from 2004 also as chairman of the German-Brazilian parliamentary group . From 1997 to 1998 he was also Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag .

In the discussion about changing the name of today's Allgäu barracks in Füssen, which was then named after Colonel General Eduard Dietl , Rossmanith emerged as an opponent of the renaming: “Colonel-General Dietl was and is still a role model for me today human and military action. "

Kurt Rossmanith has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Ostallgäu constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he received 60.9% of the first votes .

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