Curriculum Vitae

Peter Bleser

Member of the German Parliament

Personal details

Born in Brachtendorf/Rhineland-Palatinate on 23 July 1952

Married; three children

Education and professional activities

1978 Qualification as Farmer (Meister)

1971/72 and 1977/78 Mayen Agricultural College

1967 to 1970 Vocational training on his parents’ holding as a farmhand

1959 to 1967 Brachtendorf Elementary School

Elective offices and political activities

Since 2018 Ordinary Member of the Committee on Economy and Energy and Deputy Member of the Committee on Regional economic policy and ERP business plans

Since 2018 Deputy Chairman of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group

2013 to 2018 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Christian Schmidt

2011 to 2013 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

2007 to 2011 Member of the Executive Board of the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR)

2005 to 2011 Chair of the Working Group on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group

2004 to 2014 Chair of the CDU Federal Committee on Food and Agriculture

2003 to 2005 Animal Welfare Officer of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group 1992 to 2006 District Chairman of the District CDU Association for Cochem-Zell

1990 to 2002 Member of a number of parliamentary groups: e.g. German-Russian parliamentary group, German-French parliamentary group, German- Brazilian parliamentary group

1990 to 2002 Deputy Member of the Defence Committee

1990 to 1998 Ordinary member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union

1990 to 2011 Ordinary member of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

Since 1990 Member of the German

Since 1970 Member of the Young Union (youth section of the CDU/CSU) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)