Franz-Josef Holzenkamp (born 8 January 1960) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served in the

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between 2005 and 2017.

Political career

From

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until 2017, Holzenkamp was a Member of the German Parliament, representing the

Cloppenburg – Vechta Cloppenburg – Vechta is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 32. It ...

constituency. Throughout his tenure, he served on the Committee on Food and Agriculture. He did not run in the

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; his successor is

Silvia Breher Silvia Maria Breher ( Lucke; born 23 July 1973) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a Member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Cloppenburg – Vechta since the 2017 federal e ...

. Since 2017, Holzenkamp has been the President of the Deutscher Raiffeisenverband (DRV).

Other activities

* Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board * AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG, Chairman of the Supervisory Board (since 2012) * LVM-Krankenversicherungs AG, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 1999) * LVM-Lebensversicherungs AG, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 1999)

Personal life

Holzenkamp is married and has four children.Bundestag.de: Franz-Josef Holzenkamp (German)
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References

External links

Bundestag.de: Franz-Josef Holzenkamp (German)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holzenkamp, Franz-Josef Members of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony 20th-century German politicians 1960 births Living people Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017 Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013 Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany