Friedrich Ostendorff

Friedrich Ostendorff
Friedrich Ostendorff
	Friedrich Ostendorff in 2008
Member of the Bundestag
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2017
Personal details
Born	12 January 1953 (age 71); Dortmund, West Germany; (now Germany)
Political party	Greens

Friedrich Ostendorff (born 12 January 1953) is a German politician. Born in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, he represents the Alliance 90/The Greens. Friedrich Ostendorff has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 till 2005 and since 2009.^[1]

Life

After the intermediate school leaving certificate at the Realschule Oberaden in Bergkamen in 1968 and the subsequent agricultural training from 1968 to 1974, Ostendorff completed his master craftsman's examination as a farmer in 1974. Since 1971 he has been a member of the Westphalia-Lippe Rural Youth. In 1977 an agricultural internship abroad in Japan followed and in 1978 he finally took over his parents' farm in Bergkamen-Weddinghofen. Today his wife runs the organic farm. In 1983 he converted his farm to organic farming. He is a member of the Bundestag Committee for Food and Agriculture.^[2] For his parliamentary group he is spokesman for agricultural policy.^[3]^[4]

References

^ "Friedrich Ostendorff | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
^ "German Bundestag - Food and Agriculture". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
^ Bundestagsfraktion, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. "Infos zur Person". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Bundestagsfraktion, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. "Die fachpolitischen SprecherInnen". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)