Nobert Schindler

Norbert Schindler (born October 15, 1949 in Grünstadt) is a German politician and lobbyist of the Christian Democratic Party of Germany who served as a member of the Bundestag from 1994 bis 2017.

Early life and education Schindler grew up in Rodenbach (Ebertsheim), RP. After attending a Volksschule, he completed an apprenticeship in agriculture and finally passed the examination to become a master farmer. He has been running his own agricultural and wine-growing business in Bobenheim am Berg since 1972. He is vice president of the German Farmers' Association, honorary president of the Rhineland-Palatinate South Farmers' and Winegrowers' Association and president of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture. He was also a member of the board of directors of Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank.

Private life Schindler is Catholic, married and the father of two children.

Political work He joined the CDU in 1966 and was a member of the Bobenheim am Berg municipal council from 1979 to 1989. In 1991, he was elected chairman of the Bad Dürkheim CDU district association and in 1999 he became a member of the Bad Dürkheim district council (Kreistag).

Schindler was a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2017. He always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of parliament for the Neustadt - Speyer constituency. In 2016, Schindler announced that he would retire from politics in 2017 and no longer run for the Bundestag.

During his time in the parliament, Schindler was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy and a deputy member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. At the same time, he was also a biofuel and agricultural lobbyist. He sat on the supervisory board of the bioethanol company CropEnergies and received at least 30,000 euros a year for this. In the Bundestag, he defended the introduction of E10 fuel against criticism from environmental organisations. For his participation in other aforementioned lobbyist associations, he receives between €1,000 and €3,500 per month. From 2005 to 2023, he was the honorary federal chairman of the Federal Association of the German Bioethanol Industry.