Wolfgang Ehmke (politician)
Wolfgang Ehmke (born January 5, 1946 in Kolzow-Wartow , near Wolin ) is a German agricultural biologist and politician ( The Greens ).
Life
Ehmke went to high school in Waiblingen and completed military service after graduating from high school in 1965 and remained in the armed forces until 1969. After an agricultural internship, he studied agricultural biology at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim from 1970 . He received his diploma in 1974 and his doctorate in 1977. From 1976 he was head of department for ecological principles at the State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg in Karlsruhe .
Ehmke is a member of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) and joined the Green Party in 1980 . He was elected to the German Bundestag in the Bundestag election in 1983 , where he was a member of the Interior Committee until his voluntary resignation on March 28, 1985.
From 1986 to 1999 he headed the nature conservation department in the Hessian Ministry of the Environment . Since then he has been active in local politics and on a voluntary basis in nature conservation. In 2009 he founded the environmentally oriented community foundation Unser Land! Rheingau and Taunus (www.buergerstiftung-rheingau-taunus.de), which he heads as CEO.
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 169.
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| SURNAME | Ehmke, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural biologist and politician (Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolzow-Wartow , near Wolin |