Friedrich Ostendorff | |
Office: | Member of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia |
Term Start2: | 17 October 2002 |
Term End2: | 18 October 2005 |
Constituency2: | Alliance 90/The Greens List |
Term Start: | 27 October 2009 |
Constituency: | Alliance 90/The Greens List |
Birth Date: | 1953 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Dortmund, West Germany |
Party: | Greens |
Nationality: | German |
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]
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]