Peter Jahr

Peter Jahr, MEP

Peter Jahr (born 24 April 1959, Burgstädt) is an MEP for Germany from Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands since 2009.

Affiliations

• Member, Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
• Member, Committee on Petitions
• Member, Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees
• Member, Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
• Substitute, Committee on Budgets
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with Iraq

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

Professional Activities:

• Agricultural firm Dr. Jahr, Taura
• Agrar GbR Taura, Taura

Additional Information:

• Member of city council, Lunzenau
• Chair, Evangelische Mittelschule, Lunzenau
• Partner, Agrar GbR Taura, Taura
• Partner, Agrar GmbH Taura, Taura
• Partner, EPH GbR Taura, Taura

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Peter Jahr has not yet pledged to any of the four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

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Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Qualified farmer (1984); doctorate in agronomy (1988). Schooling (1965-1977). Military service (1977-1979). Student (1970-1984). Assistant at Karl Marx University, Leipzig (1984-1988); administrator, Justus von Liebig collective farm, Taura (1988-1990). Manager of Agrar GmbH, Taura (1990-1995). Farming as a sideline (since 1995).
• Member, Democratic Farmers' Party, regional vice-chair (1988-1990); Member of the CDU (since 1990); CDU Mittweida District Chair (1995-2008).
• Member of Mittweida district council (1994-2008); municipal councillor, Lunzenau (since 1994). Member, Saxony Regional Assembly (1990-2002). Member of the Bundestag (2002-2009).
• Chair of Lunzenau Lutheran School Association (since 2005).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

10E254

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45195

Fax

+32 (0)2 28 49195

Email:

peter.jahr@europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.peter-jahr.de/

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Peter Jahr, 01 October 2009, accessed 23 November 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Peter Jahr, accessed 23 November 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Peter Jahr, accessed 27 November 2010.