Barbara Otte-Kinast

{{Short description|German politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Barbara Otte-Kinast

|image = Otte-Kinast, Barbara.jpg

|office = Minister of Food, Agriculture, Consumer Protection of Lower Saxony

|predecessor = Christian Meyer

|successor = Miriam Staudte

|term_start = 22 November 2017

|term_end = 8 November 2022

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|9|18|df=y}}

|birth_place = Ehmen, Germany

|death_date =

|death_place =

|alma_mater =

|party = Christian Democratic Union

|spouse = Jürgen Kinast

|children = 3

}}

Barbara Otte-Kinast (born 18 September 1964 in Ehmen) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony since the 2022 elections.

Political career

From 2017 to 2022, Otte-Kinast served as State Minister of Food, Agriculture, Consumer Protection and State Development in the cabinet of Minister-President Stephan Weil. In this capacity, she was one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, where she served on the Committee on Agricultural Policy and Consumer Protection.[https://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/personen/DE/laender/ni/otte-kinast-barbara.html Barbara Otte-Kinast] Bundesrat.

During her time in office, Otte-Kinast oversaw the government’s response to a 2022 outbreak of the African swine fever virus in the state, which is Germany's most important pig rearing region.Michael Hogan (3 July 2022), [Germany has two more African swine fever cases in farm pigs, ministry says] Reuters.

Otte-Kinast was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.[https://www.landtag-niedersachsen.de/drucksachen/drucksachen_18_12500/10001-10500/18-10450.pdf Drucksache 18/10450: Niedersächsische Mitglieder der 17. Bundesversammlung am 13. Februar 2022] State Parliament of Lower Saxony.

References

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  • {{cite web|title=Barbara Otte-Kinast bei der CDU Niedersachsen|url=https://cdu-niedersachsen.de/kontakte/barbara-otte-kinast/|accessdate=2017-11-19}}
  • {{cite web|title=Otte-Kinast: Meyer hat der Landwirtschaft nicht gutgetan|url=https://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/niedersachsen/artikel/949789/otte-kinast-meyer-hat-der-landwirtschaft-nicht-gutgetan|accessdate=2017-11-19}}
  • {{cite web|title=Barbara Otte-Kinast, CDU|url=https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/landtagswahl_2017/landtagswahl4152.html|accessdate=2017-11-19}}

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Category:Living people

Category:1964 births

Category:Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians

Category:People from Wolfsburg

Category:21st-century German politicians

Category:Ministers of the Lower Saxony State Government