Ignaz Kiechle


Ignaz Kiechle was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
After the 1983 West German federal election, chancellor Helmut Kohl appointed him to 'Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry'. After the 1987 election, he had the same position in the Third Kohl cabinet and then, after the German reunification, in the Fourth Kohl cabinet. In January 1993, he left the cabinet because of poor health; Jochen Borchert became his successor.
From 1969 to 1994 Kiechle was a member of the Bundestag.

From 1959 until 1968 he was a farmer leading the farm of his parents.
Kiechle and his wife Cäcilia had four children. Their son Thomas became mayor of Kempten in 2014.