Wolfgang Rumpf (politician)

Wolfgang Rumpf, 1989

Wolfgang Rumpf (born December 29, 1936 in Pirmasens , † December 10, 2006 in Riesweiler ) was a German forester and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Pirmasens , Rumpf began studying forest sciences in Göttingen , Munich , Freiburg im Breisgau and Vienna , which he completed with the examination to become a qualified forest manager. With the subject of social burdens on forestry enterprises in the EEC , he was awarded a Dr. forest. PhD at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1966 to 1971 he worked as a lecturer at the Landesforstschule in Trippstadt and from 1971 to 1981 as head of the forestry office in Simmern / Hunsrück . In 1975 he was given a teaching position at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Applied Sciences . There he taught the environmental protection course in the agricultural department at the Bingen University of Applied Sciences . In addition, since 1984 he has been deputy chairman of the Forest in Need Foundation . From 1981 to 1990 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Rumpf was married and had two children. His son Ekkehard was 2001-2004 member of the Hamburg Parliament for the FDP.

Political party

Rumpf joined the FDP in 1956 . He was chairman of the FDP association Pirmasens from 1968 to 1971 and was elected chairman of the FDP association Rhein-Hunsrück in 1977. In addition, he had been deputy chairman of the FDP district Eifel - Hunsrück since 1972 , was a member of the state executive committee of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate and was chairman of the state main committee of the liberals from 1981 to 1989.

MP

Rumpf was from 1964 to 1971 council member of the city ​​of Pirmasens and from 1974 to 1977 council member of the city ​​of Simmern . In 1974 he was elected to the district assembly of the Rhein-Hunsrück district , where in 1979 he took over the chairmanship of the FDP parliamentary group. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1980 until his resignation on August 6, 1987. He was always drawn into parliament via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list. During his time as a member of the Bundestag, he dealt primarily with European and environmental policy. In addition, he devoted himself to development issues and advocated an international solution in Namibia .

Public offices

Rumpf was State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Viticulture and Forests of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987 to 1991 . From 1991 to 1994 he was State Secretary for European Affairs in the Ministry for Federal and European Affairs of the State Representation of Rhineland-Palatinate in Bonn and Brussels . After leaving the state government, he took over the office of special commissioner of the Prime Minister for the partner regions of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1996 to 2001.

Honors

• Honorary professor at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Applied Sciences, 1983
• Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , 2002