Hans-Gert Poettering

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Hans-Gert Hermann Pöttering (born September 15, 1945 in Bersenbrück ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and was the 12th President of the European Parliament from 2007 to 2009  since the introduction of direct elections.

He was a member of the European Parliament without a break from the first direct election in 1979 until the 2014 European elections , in which he no longer ran . He was group leader of the EPP-ED from 1999 to 2007 . In the 2004 and 2009 elections to the European Parliament , he was the top candidate for Germany's CDU. As part of an agreement with the Socialist Group, he succeeded Josep Borrell as President of Parliament in the second half of the legislature, from January 16, 2007. On July 14, 2009 he was replaced by Jerzy Buzek .

From 2010 to 2017 he was chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung .

education and profession

Pöttering did not get to know his father because he had died as a soldier in the last days of the Second World War . Poettering grew up in Bersenbrück. In 1966 he made his Abitur at Artland-Gymnasium in Quakenbrück . He did his military service in Fürstenau and Munster until 1968 and was trained as a reserve officer (last rank: lieutenant d. R.).

He then took up his studies in law, politics and history at the University of Bonn and the University of Geneva and at the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva. In 1973 he passed his first state examination in law; according to a study at the Columbia University in New York, he was in 1974 when Hans-Adolf Jacobsen at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn with the work The defense policy conception of the federal government from 1955 to 1963, with special attention to US military strategy to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1976 he passed his second state examination in law.

From 1976 to 1979 he was a scientific employee of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group with the deputy chairman of the parliamentary group Burkhard Ritz in the German parliament, from 1989 a lecturer at the University of Osnabrück . In 1995 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Osnabrück. Poettering has also published various publications on European politics.

He lives in Bad Iburg , is Catholic, divorced and has two sons.

politics

Germany

From 1976 to 1980 he was the European policy spokesman for the Young Union of Lower Saxony and then state chairman of the European Union of Lower Saxony from 1981 to 1991. From 1997 to 1999 Pöttering was President of the non-partisan European Union of Germany .

From 1990 to 2010 he was CDU district chairman in the Osnabrück district , from 1999 to 2009 a member of the CDU presidium and CDU federal executive committee. On December 4, 2009, he was elected to succeed Bernhard Vogel as chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and was confirmed in office in 2011, 2013 and 2015. At the beginning of December 2017 he handed over this office to the former President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert .

Pöttering is a member of the Bad Iburg shooting club and of the friends and sponsors of the Bad Iburg high school. Together with Volker Hassemer, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the pro-European initiative “ A Soul for Europe ”.

Europe

Candidate poster for the 1984 European elections

Hans-Gert Pöttering has been a member of the European Parliament for the Osnabrück, Emsland, the Grafschaft Bentheim and East Frisia regions since 1979. He was the only member of the European Parliament who had been elected continuously from the first direct election in 1979 to 2014.

From 1994 to 1999 he was Vice Chairman of the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament (Christian-Democratic Group).

From 1984 to 1994 he was chairman of the “Security and Disarmament” subcommittee of the European Parliament. During his activity as head of the working group “Intergovernmental Conference 1994” of the EPP and EPP Group from 1994 to 1996, their proposals as a policy paper were adopted by the EPP Congress in Madrid with a large majority at the beginning of November 1995. The paper outlined the EPP's position on the Amsterdam Treaty.

From 1996 to 1999 Poettering headed the working group "Enlargement of the European Union " of the EPP and EPP Group.

From 1999 to 2007 Hans-Gert Pöttering was Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (successor: Joseph Daul ) and from 1999 to 2009 a member of the EPP Presidium.

On January 16, 2007, Hans-Gert Pöttering was elected President of the European Parliament. In the first ballot he received 100 votes more than would have been necessary for an absolute majority. On July 14, 2009, he was replaced by the former Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek .

He has been an honorary member of the European Parliament since July 2014.

Memberships

Poettering was a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament . He has also been an honorary member of the European Parliament since 2014. Hans-Gert Pöttering is the initiator of the House of European History , which is being built at the European Parliament in Brussels . He chairs the Board of Trustees of the House of European History. Together with the former entrepreneur and honorary chairman of the Charlemagne Prize Foundation, André Leysen , Hans-Gert Pöttering co-initiated the European Charlemagne Prize for young people .

Awards

Fonts

  • Adenauer's security policy 1955–1963. A contribution to the German-American relationship . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3-7700-0412-4
  • The European Community after the Maastricht Resolutions: Deepening and Enlargement , Europa Union Vlg., Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7713-0424-5
  • Europe's United States: Approaching Values ​​and Goals . Edition Interfrom, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-7201-5237-5 , together with Ludger Kühnhardt
  • World partner European Union . Edition Interfrom, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-7201-5252-9 , together with Ludger Kühnhardt
  • Continent Europe. Core, transitions, borders . Edition Interfrom, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-7201-5276-6 , together with Ludger Kühnhardt
  • From vision to reality. On the way to unifying Europe . Bouvier, Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3-416-03053-3
  • In the service of Europe . Bouvier, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-416-03251-3
  • We are united for our happiness. My European way . Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22262-8
  • My Europe. Values ​​- Beliefs - Goals . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-34837-2

Web links

Commons : Hans-Gert Pöttering  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV (PDF; 100 kB)
  2. ^ Website with curriculum vitae
  3. ↑ New job for Pöttering . ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 24, 2009
  4. ↑ cf. Press release of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from June 14, 2013
  5. ↑ Lammert new chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . Spiegel Online , December 1, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  6. ↑ European Parliament : Tuesday in plenary: elections ( Memento of March 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) January 17, 2007
  7. ↑ Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering, Konrad Adenauer Foundation. In: kas.de. September 15, 1945, accessed June 13, 2016 .
  8. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  9. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 1057/2008 of November 19, 2008; accessed on February 16, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  10. ↑ Hans-Gert Pöttering enjoys his "greatest and most beautiful honor" . Bersenbrücker Kreisblatt dated June 1, 2009.
  11. ↑ Hans-Gert Pöttering awarded an honorary doctorate from the Korea University of Seoul , press release on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website of October 15, 2010, accessed on February 5, 2011.
  12. ↑ Christian Holzgreve: Honor in the Élysée for a Lower Saxony. Sarkozy distinguishes Pöttering as a great European , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 5, 2011, p. 5
  13. ^ "Freundes Frankreichs" , press release on the website of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung from February 1, 2011, accessed on October 28, 2013.
  14. ↑ Press release on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website from May 8, 2014, accessed on May 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Poettering, Hans-Gert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pöttering, Hans-Gert Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MEP, 23rd President of the European Parliament (2007–2009)
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bersenbrück