Wilhelm Priesmeier

Wilhelm Priesmeier (2014)

Wilhelm Priesmeier (born July 25, 1954 in Rahden ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2002 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life and work

Wilhelm Priesmeier grew up in Stemwede / Oppenwehe on his parents' farm. He attended the two-class elementary school in what was then the Rahden district of Tielge from 1960 to 1962. He then went to elementary school and from 1968 to the Söderblom grammar school in Espelkamp . After graduating from high school in 1974, Priesmeier did his military service and then studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (THH) from 1975 to 1980 . He then worked as a research assistant at THH. In 1981 he received his doctorate here as a Dr. med. vet. with the work "Model experiments on nutritional and metabolic influences on the local anesthetic effects of procaine and lidocaine in rats". After working as a practice assistant from 1981 to 1984, he set up his own practice as a veterinarian in Markoldendorf in southern Lower Saxony in 1984 .

Wilhelm Priesmeier is married and has four children and two grandchildren.

Political party

Priesmeier became a member of the SPD at the age of 16 and together with Friedrich Schepsmeier founded the local association of the Jusos in Stemwede. He later held various functions in the Juso sub-district executive board of Minden-Lübbecke and in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe district. During his studies he was involved in university politics, was a member of the Juso university group at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover and a member of the student council, the council and the senate.

From 1988 he held various functions as a social democrat at the local association, city association and subdistrict level.

MP

From 1991 to 2002 he was a member of the council of the city of Dassel and from 1996 to 2003 also of the district council of the Northeim district .

From 2002 Priesmeier was a member of the German Bundestag . He was a full member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture and its parliamentary group chairman, deputy in the finance committee. Before that, he was animal welfare officer from 2003 to 2009 and deputy agricultural policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group from 2004 to 2009.

Priesmeier was the spokesman for the “Food and Agriculture” working group of the SPD parliamentary group .

Wilhelm Priesmeier always moved into the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Goslar - Northeim - Osterode constituency (constituency 52) . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he received 50.5% of the first votes , in 2009 it was 39.1% and in 2013 it was 42.36%.

Wilhelm Priesmeier did not run again in the 2017 federal election .

Political positions

Wilhelm Priesmeier has been the agricultural policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group a. a. for a competitive agriculture and food industry and improved animal welfare.

Realize animal rights

The SPD politician calls for the rapid introduction of testing and approval procedures for mass-produced barn equipment for the species-appropriate keeping of farm animals. Animals are living things and deserve respect. Stables, keeping and fattening must therefore not violate animal welfare rights. The link between animal husbandry and the area is indispensable for him in order to get a grip on the nutrient surpluses in nitrogen and phosphate from the manure.

Rural Policy

Rural areas are more than just agriculture. Bundling and better coordination of the political areas relevant to rural areas is another political goal of Wilhelm Priesmeier. Priesmeier's actions focus on the further development of the joint task of agricultural structure and coastal protection (GAK) into a joint task of rural development. Since the billions in direct payments to agriculture no longer have any prospects after 2020, Wilhelm Priesmeier advocates using the funds released to pay farmers, for example, higher animal welfare standards and environmental measures.

New fertilizer rules

In order to better control the environmental compatibility of the farms' nitrogen management, Wilhelm Priesmeier calls for the introduction of a so-called farm gate balance. It measures the amount of nitrogen that gets into an agricultural operation - via the fertilizer or animal feed. It also records what leaves the farm in the form of agricultural products, from plants to milk and meat to eggs. The difference has remained on the field and a limit value must be observed for this nitrogen surplus.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Priesmeier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Wilhelm Priesmeier ( Memento from March 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Wilhelm Priesmeier on parliamentwatch.de
• Wilhelm Priesmeier on Facebook

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Person ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: wilhelm-priesmeier.de , accessed on September 21, 2017. 
2. ↑ Members of the Committee on Food and Agriculture ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: bundestag.de , accessed on September 18, 2014  
3. ↑ ^{a b} German Bundestag - Priesmeier, Dr. Wilhelm ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: bundestag.de , accessed on September 21, 2017.  
4. ↑ Food and Agriculture - The Working Group In: spdfraktion.de , accessed on February 27, 2014
5. ↑ People & Positions . In: Rundblick. Political journal for Lower Saxony . tape 2016 , no. 202 , January 8, 2016, p. 7 .