Stefan Mörsdorf

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Stefan Wilhelm Mörsdorf (born July 21, 1961 in Ottweiler ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and was Minister for the Environment in Saarland from September 29, 1999 to November 10, 2009 .

biography

Mörsdorf graduated from high school in 1980 and studied geology, botany and geography at the University of Saarbrücken and the University of Trier . From 1987 to 1999 he worked as an independent expert and owner of a planning office with a focus on landscape planning, ecological specialist planning and environmental compatibility. Until his entry into the Saarland state government, Mörsdorf worked on a voluntary basis in the BUND Saar (1984 and 1985 as deputy state chairman) and in the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), Saarland state association, as state chairman (1989 to 1999). Since 1992 Mörsdorf, who was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes from 1982 to 1987, has been a member of the selection committee of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes .

Mörsdorf initially belonged to the state government as a non-party minister. In 2005 he joined the CDU. From the beginning of 2008 to the end of 2009 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank . Mörsdorf was elected managing director of the Asko Europa-Stiftung at the end of February 2010 by the board of trustees . He took up his new office in April 2010. At the end of 2011 Mörsdorf was appointed managing director of the European Academy Otzenhausen . In May 2016, Mörsdorf resigned from this post at his own request.

On July 16, 2012, the politician suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and fought with his life. He fell into a coma and left paralysis on his left. Subsequently, despite negative prognoses, he managed to continuously improve his health. He walked the 120-kilometer Camino de Santiago from Hornbach to Metz . He described the stage in his book Step by Step , which was published in Edition Schaumberg .

Stefan Mörsdorf is married and has a son and a daughter.

Honors

  • 1980 Environmental Prize from the Martin Ott Foundation
  • 1981 Special prize from the Federal Minister of the Interior for the best work in the field of environmental protection at the federal youth research competition

Works

Individual evidence

  1. Saarbrücker Zeitung v. February 22, 2010
  2. Mörsdorf throws in Otzenhausen . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of June 3, 2016, p. B2
  3. "I feel very good" | Forum - the weekly magazine. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
  4. Jugend forscht website , accessed on April 24, 2014

Web links

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