Peter Rost (politician)

Peter Rost ( born September 19, 1930 as Otto Ludwig Peter Rosenstiel in Berlin, German Reich ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party German / Jewish descent.

Life

The parents, Friedrich Rosenstiel and the Lutheran Elizabeth Merz, went to England in 1937. The father had been business editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung until then and later went to New York without being able to be joined by his family. Stainless studied geography at the University of Birmingham and worked as a stockbroker and financial journalist later.

1966 rust applied as a Conservative to the safe for the Labour Party parliamentary seat in the constituency of Sunderland North in the House of Commons and lost. In the elections of 1970 he won the previously held by the Labour Party headquarters in Southeast Derbyshire. The constituency was changed in 1983 and became a new constituency of Erewash again from rust. He held until 1992 This seat.

Work as a parliamentarian

During his time in the British Parliament rust member of the Energy Committee was (Energy Select Committee ) and sat down in this capacity for the use of renewable energy, and warned against the waste of resources in terms of the British North Sea gas and oil. Other objects of his suggestions for saving energy were the reduction of losses in the British cooling towers of coal power plants and the expansion of the district heating network.

Rust was the initiator of the annual parliamentary meeting with representatives of the parties in the German Bundestag. The first conference of this kind took place at his country estate in Hertfordshire st att.

Publications

• Peter Rost / Bow Group Energy Standing Committee: Energy: The New Priorities, 1995, ISBN 0-861291212.

• Peter Rost: Weimar to Westminster. An Autobiography. Dynasty Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-9553507-5-7.