Johann Schröder Deiseholf (7th August 1942 - 16h March 2019) was a German-born British retired professor and politician. He was working in the Parliament as Member of Parliament for Westmorland and Lonsdale and as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs until he got retired from it.
Early Life[]
He was born in London, the UK in 1942, the son of Dr. Gerhard Deiseholf, a cardiologist, and his wife Mrs. Madeline Beth Deiseholf née Garland, daughter of World War I Veteran, Maj. Peter Rockefeller and Mrs. Aurelia Leia Rockefeller. Deiseholf is the only great-great-grandchildren of a famous German socialist, Franz Hess Deiseholf. Johann's father was a German, and his mother a British.
Johann was educated at Stamford University, where he was teaching physical chemistry, since from 1974. In the same year, 1974, he was married to Barbara Marie Armour and had four children, and later in 1994, he filed a divorce with Barbara. In 1973, he joined the Environmental Protection organization as a member, until he left in 2002 and later in 2003 joined the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As he is suffering from dementia, he left politics.
In 16th of March, he passed away from an aortic dissection at age of 77.
Political Career[]
Back in 1961, graduating from secondary school, he was thinking about joining the University of Oxford and study politics, then after thinking, he decided to go to Stamford University and study chemistry & ecology. Later that year, in 1966, he was graduating from Stamford University and applied as the professor in same University, but he didn't miss his favourite hobby, politics. After he left Environmental Protection Organisation in 2002, after a long time of participating in politics, he joined in the Parliament of the United Kingdom as Member of Parliament, being part of Labour Party since under the leadership of Dennis Slipper (? - 2019), and then he left the Labour Party and moved to Green Party.
Deiseholf and Slipper, pictured in 2015 (Before he was in the Labour Party)
In 4th of March 2019, he was appointed as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs until he left the Cabinet on 10th of March 2019.