Peter Paul Paziorek
(born May 29, 1948 in
Gelsenkirchen
,
Buer, Germany
)
[1]
is a
German politician
of the
Christian Democratic Union
(CDU). He was Parliamentary State Secretary to the
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture
from 2005 to 2007 and member of the
German Bundestag
from 1990 until August 31, 2007.
Life
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After attending
secondary school
, Paziorek transferred to the Schalker Gymnasium and passed his
Abitur
in 1968. He then studied
law
at the
Ruhr University Bochum
,
[2]
which he completed with the first
state examination
. After his legal clerkship, he also passed the second state examination in 1976. In the same year, he joined the City of
Krefeld
as a municipal legal advisor.
[1]
In 1979, he joined the North Rhine-Westphalia CDU's local government association as a consultant. Just one year later, he became the
town manager
of
Breckerfeld
. In 1983, he received his
doctorate in law
from the
University of Bielefeld
with a thesis entitled
Mittelbare und unmittelbare Wahl der Landschaftsversammlung in Nordrhein-Westfalen
. Paziorek was subsequently the town manager of his hometown of
Beckum
from 1983 to 1990.
[1]
Paziorek played for
FC Schalke 04 Basketball
in the 1970s, which belonged to the
Basketball Bundesliga
in the 1970/71 season and merged with the basketball department of FC Schalke 04 in 1974.
[3]
He was a member of the supervisory board of
FC Schalke 04
from 1994 to January 2006 and a member of the honorary council from 2007 to 2013. In the summer of 2013, he was elected to the club's honorary presidium.
[4]
Since March 2009, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Schoppingen Artists' Village Foundation.
[1]
He is married and has two children.
[5]
Political career
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Paziorek became a member of the CDU in 1968.
[6]
From 1990 to 2003, he was deputy chairman of the
Munsterland
CDU district association.
[4]
Paziorek was a member of the
German Bundestag
from 1990 until August 31, 2007. From 2000 to 2005, he was chairman of the working group on the environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety and at the same time environmental policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
[7]
He resigned his seat due to his appointment as District President of Munster.
Peter Paziorek has always been directly elected to the Bundestag from the
Warendorf constituency
,
[8]
where he received 50.3% of the first votes in the
2005 Bundestag election
.
On November 23, 2005, Paziorek was appointed
Parliamentary State Secretary
to the
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture
in the Federal Government led by Chancellor
Angela Merkel
. On June 5, 2007, the North Rhine-Westphalian state cabinet decided to appoint him to succeed Jorg Twenhoven as
District President
of Munster on September 1, 2007.
[9]
Paziorek took early retirement on May 29, 2011 for personal reasons.
[10]
On July 6, 2020, Peter Paziorek was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon.
[4]
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