Werner Jostmeier

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Werner Jostmeier (2013)

Werner Jostmeier (born August 21, 1950 in Dülmen ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1995 to 2017 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and since 2016 Honorary Consul of the Republic of Bulgaria .

Career

education and profession

After acquiring the technical college entrance qualification in 1967 and an apprenticeship as an agricultural machinery mechanic and blacksmith , Jostmeier obtained the Abitur in 1970 on a second educational path. This was followed by studying law and political science, economics and history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which he graduated with the first state examination in 1979 and the second state examination in 1982.

While he ran his parents' craft business from 1982 to 1987 as a part-time job, he joined the Deutsche Bundespost in 1983 , where he worked as head of civil defense at the Münster department until 1987 and as head of personnel at the post office in Osnabrück until 1988 . In 1988 he moved to 1990 as NATO -Referent the Federal Ministry of Post to Bonn . From 1991 to 1995 he worked as head of the HR department at Telekom in Bonn and then until 2002 as head of the HR service center at Deutsche Telekom AG in Münster.

In April 2005, Jostmeier was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the President of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for his services to church and association youth work, the voluntary and communal commitment on site and his commitment to the local shooting and club system .

politics

Jostmeier has been a member of the CDU since 1972. From 1987 to 2003 he was deputy chairman of the CDU district association Coesfeld, from 2003 to 2011 district chairman. From 1991 to 2007 he was also deputy chairman of the CDU district association Münsterland. From 1989 to 1996 he was a member of the Coesfeld district council, initially chairman of the youth welfare committee, and after the local elections in 1994 chairman of the economic development and finance committee. He was chairman of the Münster district association of the Europa-Union Deutschland from 2007 to 2014.

Jostmeier had been a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1995 and was re-elected directly to the state parliament with well over 50 percent of the first votes for the state electoral district of Coesfeld II in the state elections in 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2012 . He was chairman of the main and the European committees, 2000-2010 founder and chairman of the German-Baltic parliamentary group and represented the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2012 in the Committee of the Regions of the European Union in Brussels; In 2008 the federal states elected him unanimously to head the German delegation until the end of the 2012 mandate. Jostmeier also acted as spokesman for the transfer of the Constitutional Treaty of Lisbon to the Committee of the Regions.

In the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, he was spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the main committee, spokesman for the CDU state parliament members of the Münsterland, from 2010 chairman of the parliamentary group NRW-Poland, deputy member of the constitutional commission and deputy chairman of the election review committee. He was the representative of the CDU parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia for expellees, repatriates and German minorities from 2010 to 2017. Werner Jostmeier is a member of the board of the European People's Party (EPP) in Brussels and since 2015 a member of the state and federal board of the East and Central German Association the CDU (OMV).

Jostmeier did not run again for the 2017 state election.

Since February 2016 Werner Jostmeier has been the honorary consul of the Republic of Bulgaria for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia based in the Münster Chamber of Crafts .

In May 2017 Werner Jostmeier was awarded the " Polonicus Prize" of the European Polonia as part of the Charlemagne Prize in the coronation hall in Aachen for his special contributions to the German-Polish dialogue and as the long-standing chairman of the Poland-North Rhine-Westphalia parliamentary group - together with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa .

Other voluntary work

Private

Jostmeier is the father of four sons and lives in Dülmen-Welte.

Web links

Commons : Werner Jostmeier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award ceremony, the President of the State Parliament presents the Federal Cross of Merit to Werner Jostmeier , at www.landtag.nrw.de, accessed on January 7, 2018
  2. ↑ Werner Jostmeier, member of the CDU state parliament, is completely absorbed in his work for Bulgaria , at www.wn.de, accessed on January 7, 2018
  3. ↑ Institut-Polonicus.eu
  4. ↑ Award ceremony of the Polonicus Awards 2017 , on www.landtag.nrw.de, accessed on January 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Jostmeier, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dülmen , Westphalia