Eckhard Pols
{{Short description|German politician}}
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| name = Eckhard Pols
| office = Member of the Bundestag for Lüchow-Dannenberg – Lüneburg
| image = File:Pols, Eckhard-2.jpg
| caption = Eckhard Pols in 2014
| term_start = 2009
| term_end = 2021
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1962|3|14}}
| birth_place = Lüneburg, West Germany
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| party = CDU
| nationality = German
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| successor = Jakob Blankenburg
| predecessor = Hedi Wegener
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Eckhard Pols (born 14 March 1962) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who was a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony from 2009 to 2021.
Political career
Pols became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/eckhard-pols|title=Eckhard Pols|website=CDU/CSU-Fraktion|access-date=2020-03-22}} In parliament, he served on the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Committee on Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Communities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a15|title=German Bundestag - Transport and Digital Infrastructure|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a24|title=German Bundestag - Committee on Building, Housing, Urban Development and Local Government|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-22}} In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group with Cyprus and Malta.
From 2014 to 2016, Pols was one of the members of the country's temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, chaired by Ursula Heinen-Esser and Michael Müller.[https://www.bundestag.de/blob/434430/bb37b21b8e1e7e049ace5db6b2f949b2/drs_268-data.pdf Abschlussbericht der Kommission Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe]
Pols lost his seat in the 2021 federal election.{{Cite web|date=2021-09-27|title=Pols schafft es nicht über die Liste in den Bundestag -LZonline|url=https://www.landeszeitung.de/lueneburg/379595-pols-schafft-es-nicht-ueber-die-liste-in-den-bundestag/|access-date=2021-10-21|website=landeszeitung.de|language=de-DE}}
Other activities
- Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation (SFVV), Member of the Board of Trustees
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://www.pols-cdu.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/pols_eckhard-522682 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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Category:Members of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony
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Category:Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013
Category:Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
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