Walter Heidl

Walter Heidl (born November 8, 1959 in Ruhstorf ) is a German farmer and farmer functionary. He is President of the Bavarian Farmers' Association (BBV). He is a member of the CSU and sits for them in the district council of the Dingolfing-Landau district .

Career

The agricultural engineer Heidl runs a full-time farm with breeding and fattening pigs as well as arable farming in Rahstorf (municipality of Simbach , district of Dingolfing-Landau ). After completing primary school, secondary school and technical college, he studied agriculture at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences, Schönbrunn dept., And graduated as a Dipl.-Ing. agr. (FH) 1984 from.

He has been a volunteer for the Bavarian Farmers' Association since 1987. He was local chairman for 15 years and from 1997 district chairman in the district association Dingolfing-Landau. In 2002 he was elected President of the Lower Bavaria District Association. At the state level, he took over the chairmanship of the state committee for state planning and the environment, and in 2007 also the committee for social issues.

On May 3, 2012, he was elected President of the Bavarian Farmers' Association (BBV) to succeed Gerd Sonnleitner, who was leaving office . On June 24, 2015, he was elected Deputy President of the German Farmers 'Association at the German Farmers' Day in Erfurt .

Walter Heidl is married and has two children. He is the 1st chairman of the shooting club Frohsinn Ruhstorf eV

Web links

• Portrait of Walter Heidl on the pages of the BR