Overview

• The Bavarian Landtag announced that Bocklet died on Saturday in Munich at the age of 82.
• Officials provided no information on the cause of death or additional details.
• Bocklet served in the European Parliament from 1979 to 1993 before joining the Bavarian Landtag from 1994 to 2018, becoming its vice president in 2008.
• Under Minister-President Edmund Stoiber, he was Bavaria’s agriculture minister and later state minister for federal and European affairs in the Staatskanzlei.
• Landtag President Ilse Aigner praised him as a passionate parliamentarian, and official accounts note his involvement in the Petersburger Dialog and local politics in the Fürstenfeldbruck district.