Ernst Hinsken

Ernst Hinsken
Ernst Hinsken
	Ernst Hinsken in 2012
Member of the Bundestag for Straubing
	In office; 4 November 1980 – 22 October 2013
Preceded by	Alois Rainer
Succeeded by	Alois Rainer
Parliamentary State Secretary for Food, Agriculture and Forestry
	In office; 15 January 1998 – 26 October 1998
Personal details
Born	5 February 1943; Plattling, then part of West Germany
Died	30 August 2020 (aged 77)
Party	CSU
Committees	Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology,; Committee on Tourism,; German-Egyptian Parliamentary Group,; Parliamentary Group for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises,; Subcommittee on Regional Economic Policy,; Executive Committee of the CSU Parliamentary Group;
Awards	Bavarian Order of Merit,; Federal Cross of Merit,; State Medal for Special Services to the Bavarian Economy,; Golden Ring of Honor of German Crafts,; Municipal Medal of Merit in Silver,; Constitutional Medal in Silver;

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Ernst Hinsken (5 February 1943 – 30 August 2020) was a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), Hinsken was a member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 2013. He trained as a baker and worked in his family business for much of his early life, but entered politics in the early 1970s. Hinsken joined the Young Union in 1967 and became a member of the CSU's Lower Bavaria district executive committee in 1972. He was a member of the Straubing-Bogen district council from 1972 until 2020.

Hinsken was elected to the Bundestag in 1980, and served until 2013. From January to October 1998, Hinsken was the Parliamentary State Secretary for Food, Agriculture and Forestry. He chaired two parliamentary committees and one sub-committee during his career, and was the first deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU's Parliamentary Group for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses. Hinsken was the longest-serving CSU member of the Bundestag and the longest-serving councillor in Straubing-Bogen.