Till Backhaus

Quick Facts

Full Name	Till Backhaus
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 13, 1959(1959-03-13)
Age	65
Birthplace	Amt Neuhaus
Country	Germany
Birth City	Lower Saxony
Horoscope	Pisces

Till Backhaus Biography

Till Backhaus is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 13, 1959 in Amt Neuhaus, Lower Saxony, Germany. Till Backhaus was born at Neuhaus which is located around 3 km (2 miles) to the east of the Elbe River which at that time was that it was the Inner German border dividing East from West Germany, and which throughout the 1950s was more and more fortified on its east bank to keep people from fleeing from the east towards the west. In 1978, Backhaus was able to complete his secondary education in the nearby town of Pritzier-Schwechow, obtaining an agro- technical qualification. He was able to complete his military service in the National People’s Army before moving into the 1980s into Rostock University. University of Rostock where he completed his studies in 1985, earning an engineering degree in agriculture.

At the regional level he has since 1990 sat as a member of the Mecklenburg- Vorpommern regional legislative assembly. Between 1990 and 1994 he was elected from the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern regional list, and since 1994 he has represented the “Ludwigslust I” subdivision electoral district within the Mecklenburg-Vorpommernregion). In the assembly, from 1992 and 1998, he was Chairman for the Agriculture Committee, and from 1994 until 1998, he was chairman from 1994 until 1998, of his Agriculture and Nature Protection committee.

The Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (a law on the supervision of beef labelling) is defined using a grammatically valid and usable compound noun of 63 letters. The word featured in the Guinness Book of Records until 1996 when it was controversially challenged for the top spot by the creation of a longer word. But for many the word created by Backhaus’s ministry was toppled from its position as Germany’s longest official word only in 2013 when it was withdrawn from use by the regional assembly because the law it defined had been repealed.

More recently, in 1998 he was appointed regional Minister for Agriculture in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a post he retains, making him the longest serving regional minister currently (2018) in office in Germany.

The month of December during which the country’s unifying SED was forced to be a part of those of the Social Democrats in “round table talks”, Backhaus, who had previously not been active in politics became a member of in the SDP and was also a co-founder of the Neuhaus (Elbe) District branch. After German reunion in October of 1990 both the western and eastern parts of SPD joined to form one national party, Backhaus remained an active leader of the local party. In light of the changes in administrative boundaries and district boundaries, he served as the district party chairman of members of the SPD within the Hagenow district from 1991 to 1994, and also for the district of Hagenow-Ludwigslust from 1994 until 2003.

Till Backhaus Net Worth

Till Backhaus is one of the richest Politician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Till Backhaus 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Till Backhaus (born Neuhaus 13 March 1959) is an German politician from Germany. In the years as the German Democratic Republic approached its conclusion as a state on its own, Backhaus was one of those who , in the month of December 1989, (re-)founded in December 1989 (re-)founded the Social Democratic Party, more than 40 years after its demise.

In the year 1980, he began as a worker for Neuhaus Agricultural Production Cooperative, then transferring to the close Lubtheen Agricultural Production Co-operative, which he was department head until 1990.

Between March and October 1990 Backhaus sat as one of the 91 SPD members of the German Democratic Republic’s first (and, as thing turned out, last) freely elected National legislative Assembly (Volkskammer).

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After the 1998 regional election Backhaus was offered the position of State Minister for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for Mecklenburg- Vorpommern in the regional administration headed up, at that time, by his party colleague Harald Ringstorff. Backhaus accepted the post, and retained it (now with Consumer protection and environmental protection added to the portfolio) it after 7 November 2006 when, controversially, the Mecklenburg- Vorpommern SPD entered into a ruling coalition with the CDU (party), following regional election results that had been disappointing for both parties.

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Till Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Till Backhaus celebrates birthday on March 13 of every year.

In 2015, as the minister responsible, Backhaus was called upon to make a ministerial statement after the (presumably temporary) closure of Rostock zoo in the wake of a bird flu scare which had necessitated the precautionary killing of storks, ducks and a red ibis. Nor was this the first bird flu scare in the region to necessitate ministerial intervention. In the preceding fifteen years his intervention has frequently been invoked in other food, agriculture and environment related scares.