Niels Lund Chriesteren (gardener, 1940)

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Niels Lund Chriesteren (born August 9, 1940 ) is a German graduate gardener and manager . He is a partner in the Erfurt seed and plant breeding company NL Chriesteren . His son Frederick Niels is the sole manager.

Life

Chrestenen completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in his parents' business. When he threatened to serve in the barracked people's police or to work in uranium mining, he went to West Germany and Great Britain . After completing his British Abitur, Chrestenen studied horticulture at the Leicester College for Technology and Commerce and at the Humboldt University in Berlin, graduating with a degree in gardening. In 1967 he joined the family business and took over the management of the breeding and production department. After the complete nationalization of the company in 1977, he remained in a responsible position in the field of flower seed cultivation. During the GDR era, Chrestenen also worked as an agricultural development aid worker in Africa on behalf of the state and then headed the horticultural seed production in the corresponding large-scale operation in Quedlinburg . Chrestenen was a member of the NDPD during the GDR era and was a member of the Erfurt city council until the fall of the Berlin Wall .

With the re-privatization of the company in the course of reunification in 1990, Chriesteren and his brother Cornel Chriesteren took over the management.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, Chriesteren took on several functions in business associations. Since December 1990 he served as President of the Erfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In this capacity he played a key role in the reprivatisation of businesses. In 1997 he was elected Vice President of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In addition, from 1992 to 1995 he was a member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's group of advisors on construction east and was a member of the future commission of the Prime Minister of Thuringia. He was also a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn AG for over 16 years .

Niels Lund Chriesteren, whose great-grandfather Niels Lund Chriesteren immigrated to Germany from Denmark, was Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Denmark until the beginning of 2011 .

Chriester is married to Mrs. Erika and has three children.

At the celebration of his 70th birthday on August 11, 2010, Chrestenen appealed to politicians to secure free, efficient entrepreneurship in the future, "even where this security has been lost". Chrestenen also sees a problem in the fact that the “electricity commodity” has become an object of political regulation. He warns that the expansion of “renewable energies” would lead to further cost increases for (Thuringian) companies.

On September 6, 2010 Chrestenen received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, from the hand of the Federal President .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Girwert: I answered questions from the Chancellor from nine in the morning until late at night. Former president of the IHK Erfurt, Niels Lund Chriesteren, remembers the eventful turning point - as an entrepreneur and honorary officer . Thuringian regional newspaper, August 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Kai Mudra: A citizen of the world turns 80. Horticulture expert Niels Lund Chriesteren helped shape the economic transition in Thuringia . Thuringian newspaper, August 8, 2020
  3. ↑ The Supervisory Board of DB AG www.deutschebahn.com last updated on February 23, 2009
  4. ↑ Hans Hoffmeister: First-class award . Thuringian newspaper, August 12, 2010
  5. ↑ Electricity and gas prices are the greatest disadvantage. Chrestenen: The burden must be capped . Thuringian newspaper, September 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Chrestenen, Niels Lund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graduate gardener and manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1940