Konrad Schwaiger

Konrad Schwaiger (born April 25, 1935 in Bruchsal ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Schwaiger grew up in Baden and Alsace. He passed his Abitur in 1954 at the Justus Knecht grammar school in Bruchsal. He then studied law, economics and languages ​​at the universities of Heidelberg , Freiburg im Breisgau , Montpellier , Milan and Cambridge . He passed both state law exams and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. From 1963 to 1994 he worked with several interruptions in the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union, most recently as director.

Schwaiger joined the CDU in 1977. In the Baden-Wuerttemberg regional association , he took on a number of European political tasks, for example he was chairman of the Europe working group and was a member of the board of the Northern Baden district association. He was deputy district administrator and first state official in the interior administration of the state of Baden-Württemberg. From 1990 to 1992 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt under Minister Horst Rehberger . From 1994 to 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament , where he was spokesman for the Group of the European People's Party in the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy.

Schwaiger is married and has three children.

Web links

• Entry on Konrad Schwaiger in the Members' database of the European Parliament
• Profile of Konrad Schwaiger ( memento from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the German website of the European Parliament