Hans-Gert Pöttering: Difference between revisions

{{shortShort description|German lawyer and politician}}

|name image = Pöttering, Hans-Gert Pöttering-9757.jpg

|order term_start =23rd 16 January 2007

|office term_end = President of the European= 14 July Parliament2009

|successor term_start2 = [[Jerzy20 July Buzek]]1999

|term_end3 term_start4 = 301 JuneJanuary 20142010

|office4 term_end4 = Chairman of the [[Konrad= 1 AdenauerDecember Foundation]]2018

|term_end4 successor4 = [[Norbert Lammert]]

|party residence = [[ChristianBad DemocraticIburg]], Union[[Allied-occupied (Germany)|Christian Democratic UnionGermany]]

|children profession = Johannes<br>BenedictLawyer

Pöttering never got to know his father who was [[killed in action]] during the last days of the [[Second World War]]. After [[Abitur]] and military service, he studied law, political science and history at the [[University of Bonn]], the [[University of Geneva]], the [[Graduate Institute of International Studies]] in Geneva and at [[Columbia University]] in New York. He took his first state exam in jurisprudence in 1973, earned a PhD in political science and history in 1974 with a dissertation on West German defense policy in the 1950s and 1960s and took his second state exam in jurisprudence in 1976, fully qualifying as an attorney.

===Member of the European Parliament, 1979–2014===
Pöttering was a member of the [[European Parliament]] from 1979 until 2014, by the end of this period he was the only member of the European Parliament to have served continuously since the first elections.

Together with [[Volker Hassemer]] he is a member of the advisory board of the pro-European initiative "[[A soul for Europe|A Soul for Europe]]". He was a member of the [[Reconciliation of European Histories Group]].<ref name="REH">{{cite web|title= About Us – Reconciliation of European Histories Group|date=21 April 2010|url=http://eureconciliation.wordpress.com/about/|publisher=[[Reconciliation of European Histories Group]]|access-date=1 August 2011}}</ref>

===President of the European Parliament, 2007–2009===

As President of the European Parliament he initiated the [[House of European History]] project. He made reference to the House in his inaugural speech in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/dv/745/745721/745721_en.pdf|title=Conceptual Basis for a House of European History|website=Europarl.europa.eu|access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref>

* {{Flag|Tunisia}}: Grand Officer of the [[National Order of Merit (Tunisia)|National Order of Merit]] of the Republic of Tunisia (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pomed.org/tunisia-weekly-update-essid-presents-ten-measures-to-fight-unemployment-belhaj-resigns-as-presidents-chief-of-staff/|title=Tunisia Weekly Update: Essid Presents Ten Measures to Fight Unemployment; Belhaj Resigns as President's Chief of Staff|website=POMED|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-04|archive-date=6 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706210123/https://pomed.org/tunisia-weekly-update-essid-presents-ten-measures-to-fight-unemployment-belhaj-resigns-as-presidents-chief-of-staff/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

* European Honorary Senator, the ‘MEP'MEP of the Year 2004’2004' by newspaper ‘[[Politico Europe|European Voice]]’ (2004)

* Doctor Honoris Causa of the [[European Humanities University]], Vilnius

* Honorary citizen of [[Bersenbrück|Bersenbrueck]] (Germany) and [[Opole]] (Poland)

* [[WilfriedFriends Martens Centre for Europeanof StudiesEurope]], Member of the Executive Board of Trustees<ref>[https://wwwfriendsofeurope.martenscentre.euorg/wilfried-martens-centre-european-studies Executivenetwork?page=0&tab=board_of_trustees&title= Board of Trustees]{{Dead [[Wilfriedlink|date=January Martens2020 Centre|bot=InternetArchiveBot for|fix-attempted=yes European}} [[Friends of StudiesEurope]].</ref>

Pöttering lives in [[Bad Iburg]], [[Germany]]. He is Roman Catholic, divorced and has two sons.<ref>http{{cite web|url=https://www.epp-edeppgroup.eu/Press/peve06/docs/061114cv2|title=EPP Group in the European Parliament|website=Eppgroup.eu|access-hgp-en.pdfdate=9 March 2019}}</ref>

*[http://www.epp-ed.eu/Press/peve06/docs/061114cv2-hgp-en.pdf Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194524/http://www.epp-ed.eu/Press/peve06/docs/061114cv2-hgp-en.pdf |date=3 March 2016 }} from the official [[Europarl|EU Parliament]] web site

*{{YouTube|dmK-f88gcx8|Pöttering states European Parliament makes 75% of the laws passed by the European Union}}.

[[Category:People from BersenbrückOsnabrück (district)]]

[[Category:MEPs for Germany 1979–841979–1984]]

[[Category:MEPs for Germany 1984–891984–1989]]

[[Category:MEPs for Germany 1989–941989–1994]]

[[Category:MEPs for Germany 1994–991994–1999]]

[[Category:MEPs for Germany 2004–092004–2009]]

[[Category:MEPs for Germany 2009–142009–2014]]