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Dr. Peter Jahr, Member of the European Parliament, 2017
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Dieter Peter Jahr (born April 24, 1959 in Burgstädt ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He is a former member of the Saxon Landtag and the German Bundestag . He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 .

Life and work

After graduating from an extended secondary school (EOS) in 1977 , Jahr did his military service in the National People's Army and began studying agriculture at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1979 , which he completed in 1984 with a degree in agriculture . Jahr then worked as a research assistant at the University of Leipzig until 1988. In 1988 he received his doctorate here as a Dr. agr. with the thesis "Economic assessment of selected performance characteristics of cattle production" . He then worked as an economist in the agricultural production cooperative (LPG) "Justus von Liebig" in Taura . After the reunification , he took over the management of Agrar GmbH in Taura from 1990 to 1995. Since 1995 he has been a farmer as a sideline.

Peter Jahr is married and has four children.

Political party

Jahr was a member of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD) in the GDR from 1988 to 1990 and joined the CDU in 1990 . From 1995 to 2007 he was chairman of the CDU district association Mittweida .

MP

Year 1994 became a member of the town council of Lunzenau and the district council of the district Mittweida. From 1990 to 2002 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament , where he was the agricultural policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group.

From 2002 until his resignation on July 14, 2009, he was a member of the German Bundestag and there since 2006 the CDU / CSU parliamentary group commissioner for animal welfare . Peter Jahr has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Döbeln - Mittweida - Meißen II constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election he received 38.9 percent of the first votes .

In the European elections in 2009, Jahr was elected to the European Parliament , which is why he gave up his mandate in the Bundestag.

EU parliamentarians

Jahr is a member of the Bureau of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats).

He is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development , the Committee on Petitions , the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. Deputy year is in the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, in the Committee of Inquiry into the investigation of alleged violations of Union law and maladministration in the application of the same in connection with money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (PANA) as well as in the delegation in the Parliamentary Association Committee EU-Ukraine and in the delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.

Extra earnings

In 2014 Transparency International published a study according to which year the farmer is a sideline and as a partner in six companies should earn between 9,054 and 27,000 euros per month. In terms of additional income, he is the front runner of all German MEPs. In fact, Peter's annual ancillary income in 2013 was 1403 euros or 117 euros per month, in 2014 it was 36891 euros or 3075 euros per month and in 2015 it was 49500 euros or 4125 euros per month, according to the tax assessments published by the responsible person Mittweida tax office. Since the so-called additional income is gross income, it is of course subject to income tax. With the voluntary publication of its tax assessments, Jahr created complete transparency about its ancillary income.

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Jahr  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  2. ^ Transparency International report: EU parliamentarians earn millions with part-time jobs. In: Spiegel Online . October 12, 2014, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tax return on www.peter-jahr.de, accessed on October 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Year, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Year, Dieter Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, MdB, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgstädt