Martin Stroot

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin Stroot (2014)
District Administrator Martin Stroot (right) presented the Steinfurt District Challenge Prize to Paul Nößler from Steinbeck on November 4, 1994 .
Martin Stroot congratulates pastor em. Werner Heukamp on his 85th birthday and thanks him for his diverse commitment.
Martin Stroot has been a member of the Recke Heimatverein since 1949. During the 14th Recker Heimattreffen 2014, the chairman of the local association, Florenz Beckemeier, presented him with the certificate of honorary membership.

Martin Stroot (born December 12, 1927 in Recke ) is a German entrepreneur and North Rhine-Westphalian local politician ( CDU ). From 1984 to 1994 he was district administrator of the Steinfurt district .

Life and work

Martin Stroot comes from a family with eleven children. He lost his father when he was nine. After attending school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked as a businessman . At the end of 1971 he went into business for himself with the Recker turkey specialties Martin Stroot GmbH & Co. KG. The company bundled the rearing, fattening and slaughtering of turkeys and grew over the years to several locations not only in Recke. The slaughterhouse in Recke was temporarily the only turkey slaughterhouse in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Martin Stroot is married and has four grown children. Another daughter, Helen, died of leukemia in 1982 at the age of 16 .

Political and social engagement

Martin Stroot's entry into politics began in the Kolping Family , where he was district seniors and sat on the diocesan board, as well as through the Junge Union Steinbeck , of which he was a founding member and chairman. From 1956 to 1961 he acted as district chairman of the Junge Union in the Tecklenburg district . Since 1956 also a CDU member, Stroot was elected to the council of the community of Recke in the same year. From 1960 to 1974 he was chairman of the CDU local union Recke / Steinbeck.

In 1961 the Recker elected him for the first time as their mayor, an office that Martin Stroot held until 1984. He began as the youngest mayor of North Rhine-Westphalia at the time and after 23 years in this office was finally the longest-serving mayor in the Tecklenburger Land. During his term of office, the fundamental decisions for the design of the town center were made, as well as the construction of the public service center (ÖDZ), which also houses the town hall of the community. Stroot was also involved in the founding of the Fürstenbergschule Recke. However, within the local union, Martin Stroot was not without controversy. Among his critics were Laurenz Casser and Herbert Peuten, which escalated in 1979 when the candidates for the next local elections were drawn up when Casser ran against Stroot, but was defeated at the end of the seven-hour session.

Martin Stroot was a member of the district council of the Tecklenburg district from 1969 until the regional reform on December 31, 1974. From 1975 to 1994 he was a member of the district council of the newly formed Steinfurt district . For several years he was chairman of the CDU district parliamentary group and finally served as honorary district administrator for the Steinfurt district from 1984 to 1994. Important issues for Stroot during this time were keeping Münster / Osnabrück airport alive and preventing a waste incineration plant in Greven . In 1999 he left the district council. From 1975 to 1999 Martin Stroot was also a member of the landscape assembly of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe , as well as various committees of the district assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Over the years, Martin Stroot has also held numerous honorary positions in the Recke community. From 1956 to 1976 he was a board member and secretary of the local agricultural association. In 1972 the members of the Gymnastics and Sports Club (TuS) Recke elected him as the new chairman. In addition, from 1973 he was a member of the advisory board of the Fürstenberg School and the board of trustees of the Sankt Benediktus Hospital. In 1983 he was one of the founding members of the Recke cultural association. Since 1949 he has been a member of the Heimatverein Recke, of which he has been a board member since 2012. He was also involved outside of the local area: from 1971 he sat on the savings bank council of Sparkasse Ibbenbüren and was later elected a board member of the Tecklenburger Land water supply association. He is also a member of the Augustin Wibbelt Society.

Honors

On May 3, 1978, Martin Stroot was the fourth Recker citizen to be awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. The Recke cultural association honored him with the 2017 Culture Prize for “his life's work of promoting culture in local politics in Recke and in the Steinfurt district”. The TuS Recke appointed Stroot as honorary chairman, the Heimatverein Recke awarded him honorary membership in 2014.

literature

  • District Day North Rhine-Westphalia : Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1991.
  • Tobias Vieth (-vie-): "I can't sit at home" Former district administrator Martin Stroot turns 80 . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from December 12, 2007.
  • NN: One man, one word - Mayor Stroot. Even the SPD wishes: stay with us for a long time! . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from May 6, 1978.

Web links

Commons : Martin Stroot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Tobias Vieth (-vie-): “I can't sit at home” The former district administrator Martin Stroot turns 80 . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from December 12, 2007
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Rotte (-kr-): 60 years and not a bit old ... District Administrator Martin Stroot greetings . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from December 9, 1987
  3. ↑ a b c d N.N .: One man, one word - Mayor Stroot. Even the SPD wishes: stay with us for a long time! . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from May 6, 1978
  4. ↑ Klaus Rotte: Sawn mayor's chair, still very solid seating furniture ... Laurenz Casser was subject to Mayor Martin Stroot 97: 132 / What lessons? . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from May 7, 1979
  5. ^ A b Sunhild Salaschek: Declarations of love and a culture prize. Martin Stroot honored for his life's work / splendor, glamor and great emotions . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from November 14, 2017
  6. ↑ Heinrich Weßling (-weß-): Martin Stroot: "We will find someone". Annual general meeting of the home club Recke / committee should solve the question of the club's management . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from November 12, 2012
  7. ↑ cf. the list of winners of the cultural award of the Recke cultural association ; accessed December 10, 2017
  8. ↑ Andrea Bracht: "Moor is thicker than blood". Many former stretchers come back to the Tödden community for the anniversary celebration . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from September 1, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Stroot, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and local politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Warrior