Manfred Vohrer

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Manfred Vohrer (born June 21, 1941 in Reutlingen ) is a German politician of the FDP .

Career

Vohrer is an economist and an association official. He studied economics at the universities of Tübingen , Lausanne and Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1971 from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with a thesis on the mobility of farmers in the Freiburg im Breisgau region .

politics

Vohrer joined the FDP in 1962. From 1972 to 1983 he was a member of the German Bundestag , where he was a member of the food, agriculture and forestry committees as well as economic cooperation. He also worked as development policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group and in the working groups on development policy and foreign and German policy. He was always elected via the state list of Baden-Württemberg.

Vohrer was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . In the latter he was Secretary General of the Liberal Group and Chairman of the Liberal Group. From 1989 to 1994 he was a member of the European Parliament . Vohrer is chairman of the Freundeskreis Walter Scheel eV, which together with the Walter Scheel Foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation awards the Walter Scheel Prize for freedom every two years . From 1978 to 1990 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Von Vohrer has a deposit with files from his political activities from 1973 to 1982 in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Engagement in CO 2 emissions trading

In 1999 Vohrer invested all of his assets in reforestation projects, with which he contributed to reducing global CO 2 reductions. That year he acquired 3,700 hectares in Argentina, a year later he expanded the project area by 650 hectares in Paraguay and by 12,186 hectares in Uganda. The projects have been awarded the Forest Stewardship Council's seal for responsible forest management .

Vohrer is on the supervisory board of global-woods international AG Münstertal , which according to its own information operates projects in Mexico, Argentina, Greece and Uganda. Since 2002, the organization has planted over seven million trees.

Fonts

  • The analysis of the mobility behavior of farmers as the basis for an agricultural mobility policy is presented using an exemplary study in the Freiburg district. Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Economics. Fak., Diss. 1971.
  • (Ed.): Ecological market economy in Europe. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1992, ISBN 978-3-7890-2636-2 , 2nd edition 1994.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Winkenbach: " Get rich with fresh air" , in: Welt-online from February 8, 2004; accessed on March 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Background certification according to the Forest Stewardship Council. Retrieved August 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Federal Gazette , global-woods AG, Münstertal, annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014.
  4. ↑ website of global-woods international AG; accessed on March 6, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Vohrer, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen