(1953-01-12) 12 January 1953 (age 68) Dortmund, West Germany (now Germany)
Nationality
German
Political party
Greens
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]
Life[]
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]