Hans-Heinrich Sander is a German

Germany

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 politician for the Free Democratic Party

Free Democratic Party (Germany)

The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government...

 (German: Freie Demokratische Partei/FDP).

He was elected to the Lower Saxon Landtag

Lower Saxon Landtag

The Lower Saxon Landtag or the Parliament of Lower Saxony is the state diet of the German state of Lower Saxony. It convenes in Hanover and currently consists of 152 members of five Parties...

 in 2003, and has been re-elected on one occasion. He has served as the Lower-Saxon Minister of Environment in the first cabinet Wulff

First cabinet Wulff

The Cabinet Wulff I was the state government of the German state of Lower Saxony from 4 March 2003 to 26 February 2008....

 and is currently serving as the Lower-Saxon Minister of Environment and Climate Protection in the second cabinet Wulff

Second cabinet Wulff

The Cabinet Wulff II was the state government of the German state of Lower Saxony from 26 February 2008 to 30 June 2010. Wulff left the position in June 2010 upon being elected President of Germany....

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Family and Personal Life

Hans-Heinrich Sander is the son of former agriculturist and politician Heinrich Sander. He began his joblife as agriculturist but went on studying teaching after suffering a heavy work accident in which he lost his left arm. After receiving a teaching degree by the PH Göttingen in 1973 he became a teacher and later the headmaster of the elementary school in Bevern where he stayed until 2002. Also, he is an agriculturist like his father. Sander is married and has two children. He is still running a fruitcompany in his hometown Golmbach.

Sander is married and has two children. His daughter is also involved in German local politics in Berlin.

Party

Sander became member of the Free Democratic Party in 1968. He is deputy chairman of the Lower-Saxon Free Democratic Party and district chairman of the Free Democratic Party Holzminden. He has been the mayor of the Samtgemeinde Bevern from 2001 to 2003.

Politics

In 1973 he became member of the county council of Holzminden which he stayed until 2006. He is member of the Lower-Saxon parliament since 2003 and the Lower-Saxon Minister of Environment and Climate Protection since March 4th, 2003. Since 1996, Hans-Heinrich Sander is Deputy District Administrator of Holzminden.

He describes himself as an practitioner who wants to give the people some free space in the field of environmental politics. In his opinion ambitious environmental politics will fail if it does not pick up the people along with it.