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Candidate poster for the 1994 federal election

Gero Pfennig (born February 11, 1945 in Jüterbog ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

After graduating from high school in 1964, Pfennig studied law in Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1968 to 1973 he was an assistant at the Free University of Berlin. Together with Eberhard Diepgen and Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky , he belonged to the so-called K group in the Berlin CDU. He is editor of the commentary on the Constitution of Berlin.

1964 Pfennig joined the CDU. From 1971 to 1975 he was a member of the Zehlendorf District Assembly , from 1975 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . From 1979 to 1985 he was a member of the European Parliament , where he was a member of the Committee on Budgets and the Institutional Committee as well as budget spokesman for the EPP Group. He was also co-author of the European Parliament's draft treaty establishing the European Union .

Pfennig was a member of the German Bundestag from February 24, 1977 to 1980 , but as a Berlin member of parliament only had limited voting rights. On December 2, 1985, when he replaced Wolfgang Hackel , he moved back into the Bundestag, where he only got full voting rights on October 3, 1990. In the 11th and 12th electoral term he sat as a directly elected member of the Bundestag for the Berlin constituency of Steglitz-Zehlendorf and at the same time was chairman of the petitions committee and the European Union working group and also the European political spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 288.

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Entry on Gero Pfennig in the Members' database of the European Parliament