Profile of Hans-Gert Poettering

Hans-Gert Poettering has been a member of the European Parliament since the first direct elections in 1979. Born on September 15, 1945, in Bersenbrück (Lower Saxony), he studied law, politics and history in Bonn, Geneva and New York (doctorate 1974),...

Hans-Gert Poettering has been a member of the European Parliament since the first direct elections in 1979. Born on September 15, 1945, in Bersenbrück (Lower Saxony), he studied law, politics and history in Bonn, Geneva and New York (doctorate 1974), worked from 1976 to 1979 as an academic before being elected to the European Parliament for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as deputy for the region Osnabrück, Emsland, Ostfriesland.

In 1995, he was appointed honorary professor and, since 1999, he has been a member of the Executive Committee and Federal Executive of CDU in Germany.

He headed the CDU list for Germany and Lower Saxony for the 2004 European Parliamentary elections. He was chairman of the EPP-ED Group from 1999 to 2007.

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