Jochen van Aerssen explained

Jochen van Aerssen
Office:Member of the Bundestag
Term Start:14 December 1976
Term End:29 March 1983
Birth Date:15 April 1941
Birth Place:Kevelaer
Death Place:Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Party:CDU
Nationality:German

Jochen van Aerssen (15 April 1941 – 19 January 1992) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.[1]

Life

Van Aerssen joined the CDU in 1964, he had been a member of the Kleve district executive of the CDU since 1970 and became a member of the Rhineland regional executive of the CDU in 1973 as Commissioner for European Affairs. As a successor to Wilhelm Wehren, van Aerssen was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament from 26 July 1970 to 13 December 1976, where he was chairman of the committee for state planning from 1973 to 1975. From 14 December 1976 to 29 March 1983, he was a member of the German Bundestag for two terms. He was directly elected in 1976 and 1980 in the Kleve constituency. In addition, he was a member of the European Parliament from 19 January 1977 to 24 July 1989, where he was a member of various committees with a foreign trade orientation.

Literature

Book: Herbst. Ludolf. Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002. Jahn. Bruno. 2002. De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. 978-3-11-184511-1. Vierhaus. Rudolf. München. 1715. de. Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages - 1.-13. Wahlperiode: Alphabetisches Gesamtverzeichnis; Stand: 28. Februar 1998. 1998-02-28. webarchiv.bundestag.de. Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Bundestages (WD 3/ZI 5). de. The members of the German Bundestag - 1st - 13th term of office: Alphabetical complete index. PDF. 2020-05-21.