Kurt Rissling

Kurt Rißling (born December 27, 1888 in Goslar , † December 1, 1967 in Salzgitter-Ringelheim ) was a German farmer and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending school, Rißling completed an agricultural training and then worked as an agricultural official in Thuringia . He did military service from 1907 to 1910, worked as an agricultural civil servant in Ringelheim from 1911 to 1913 and then became the chief civil servant of the manor there. After his participation in the First World War , he worked again as an agricultural official until 1926. Finally, in 1926, he settled in Ringelheim as an independent farmer.

politics

Rißling had been a member of the CDU since 1946. In 1946 he belonged to the Appointed Braunschweig Landtag and in the same year became a council member of the city ​​of Salzgitter . He was a member of the Appointed Lower Saxony Landtag in 1946/47 and was then elected to the Lower Saxony Landtag , to which he belonged from the first to the fourth electoral term until May 5, 1963. Here he was from 1955 to 1957 Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance and from 1959 to 1963 Chairman of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. Rissling served as Minister for Food and Agriculture from May 7 to November 21, 1946 in the government of the state of Braunschweig led by Prime Minister Alfred Kubel . From 1952 to 1956 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Salzgitter. On November 19, 1957, he was appointed as the successor to Friedrich von Kessel in the government of the State of Lower Saxony headed by Prime Minister Heinrich Hellwege and appointed Lower Saxony's Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests . After the formation of a coalition of SPD , FDP and GB / BHE , he left the government on May 12, 1959.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star

See also

• Cabinet Kubel (Braunschweig)
• Hellwege II cabinet

literature

• Reinhard Försterling: Rissling, Kurt . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 493 .

Web links

• Biography at the Lower Saxony Ministry for Rural Areas, Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm Höck	Mayor of Salzgitter 1952 - 1956	Gustav Stollberg