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| name = Hans-Gert Pöttering
| image = Pöttering, Hans-Gert-9757.jpg
| office = [[President of the European Parliament]]
| term_start = 16 January 2007
| term_end = 14 July 2009
| vicepresident = [[Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou]]
| predecessor = [[Josep Borrell]]
| successor = [[Jerzy Buzek]]
| office2 = Leader of the [[European People's Party (European Parliament group)|European People's Party-European Democrats]]
| term_start2 = 20 July 1999
| term_end2 = 16 January 2007
| predecessor2 = [[Wilfried Martens]]
| successor2 = [[Joseph Daul]]
| constituency_MP3 = [[Germany (European Parliament constituency)|Germany]]
| parliament3 = European
| term_start3 = 17 July 1979
| term_end3 = 30 June 2014
| office4 =
| term_start4 = 1 January 2010
| term_end4 = 1 December 2018
| predecessor4 = [[Bernhard Vogel (politician)|Bernhard Vogel]]
| successor4 = [[Norbert Lammert]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|9|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bersenbrück]], Germany
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]]
| children = Johannes<br>Benedict
| residence = [[Bad Iburg]], [[Allied-occupied Germany|Germany]]
| profession = Lawyer
| alma_mater = [[University of Bonn]]<br>[[University of Geneva]]<br>[[Graduate Institute of International Studies]]<br>[[Columbia University]]
| website = [http://www.kas.de/wf/en/71.7632/ Official website]
| caption = Pöttering in 2014
}}
'''Hans-Gert Pöttering''' (born 15 September 1945) is a German lawyer, historian and conservative politician ([[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]], [[European People's Party]]),
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==Early life and education==
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.
==Political career==
===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.
From 1984 to 1994 Pöttering was chairman of the [[European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence|Subcommittee on Security and Defence]]. From 1994 to 1996 he chaired the working group on the Intergovernmental Conference of the [[European People's Party]] (EPP) and [[EPP-ED]] Group, the results of which became the official EPP position for the [[Treaty of Amsterdam]].
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In 1994 Pöttering became Vice-President of the EPP, and from 1999 to 2007 he was the Chairman of the [[EPP-ED]] Group in the European Parliament. He was the top candidate of the [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]] in the [[2004 European Parliament election|2004 and the 2009 European 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===
[[File:Flickr - europeanpeoplesparty - EPP Congress Warsaw (266).jpg|thumb|Pöttering with President of the European Commission [[José Manuel Barroso]] at the [[European People's Party|EPP]] Congress in Warsaw, 29 April 2009]]
As part of a deal with the socialist group, it was agreed that he would succeed [[Josep Borrell Fontelles]] as President of the European Parliament in the second part of the 2004–2009 term, which he did on 16 January 2007. He was elected with 450 of 689 valid votes, and defeated Italian Green [[Monica Frassoni]], Danish Eurosceptic [[Jens-Peter Bonde]] and French Communist [[Francis Wurtz]].
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
For many years he is serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the [[House of European History]] in [[Brussels]].
===Later career===
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When the EPP membership of Hungarian party [[Fidesz]] was suspended in 2019, EPP president [[Joseph Daul]] appointed Pöttering – alongside [[Herman van Rompuy]] and [[Wolfgang Schüssel]] – to a group of high-level experts who were mandated to monitor
==Political positions==
Pöttering is known as an enthusiastic [[Federal Europe|European Federalist]] and an ally of [[Angela Merkel]]. He has stated that his priority will be to rejuvenate the [[European Constitution]].
In February 2020, Pöttering joined around fifty former European prime ministers and foreign ministers in signing an open letter published by British newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'' to condemn [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]]'s [[Trump peace plan|Middle East peace plan]], saying it would create an [[apartheid]]-like situation in occupied Palestinian territory.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/grave-concern-about-us-plan-to-resolve-israel-palestine-conflict Grave concern about US plan to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict] ''[[The Guardian]]'', 27 February 2020.</ref>
==Recognition==
=== National honours ===
* {{Flag|Germany}}: Great Cross with Star and Sash of the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] (2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kas.de/statische-inhalte-detail/-/content/dr.-hans-gert-poettering|title=Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering
=== Foreign honours ===
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* {{Flag|Ukraine}}: 2nd Class of the [[Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise|Order of Prince Jaroslaw the Wise]] (2008)
* {{Flag|Latvia}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Three Stars]] (2009)
* {{Flag|Portugal}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of Merit (Portugal)]] (2009)
* {{Flag|France}}: Commander of the [[Legion of Honour]] (2011)
* {{Flag|Spain}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of Civil Merit|Order of Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Spain]] (2011)
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* {{Flag|Estonia}}: 1st Class of the [[Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana]] (2013)
* {{Flag|Romania}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Star of Romania]] (2014)
* {{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>
===Awards===
* [[Robert Schuman Medal, EPP Group|Robert Schuman Medal]] of [[European People's Party group|EPP-ED]] (1995)
*{{Flag|Luxembourg}}: Mérite Européen Medal in Gold, Fondation du Mérite européen (2002)
* European Honorary Senator, the
*[[Walter Hallstein Prize]] (2007)
* European Excellence Award of the [[Community of Madrid|Autonomous Community of Madrid]] ('Premio a la Excelencia Europea', 2008)
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==Other activities==
* [[Friends of Europe]], Member of the Board of Trustees<ref>[https://friendsofeurope.org/network?page=0&tab=board_of_trustees&title= Board of Trustees]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [[Friends of Europe]].</ref>
* Reimagine Europa, Member of the Advisory Board<ref>[https://reimagine-europa.eu/who-we-are/advisory-board-2 Advisory Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023084717/https://reimagine-europa.eu/who-we-are/advisory-board-2 |date=23 October 2021 }} Reimagine Europa.</ref>
* [[Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies]], Member of the Executive Board<ref>[https://www.martenscentre.eu/wilfried-martens-centre-european-studies Executive Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303205112/https://www.martenscentre.eu/wilfried-martens-centre-european-studies |date=3 March 2020 }} [[Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies]].</ref>
==Personal life==
Pöttering lives in [[Bad Iburg]], [[Germany]]. He is Roman Catholic, divorced and has two sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eppgroup.eu/|title=EPP Group in the European Parliament|website=Eppgroup.eu|
==Works==
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*''Kontinent Europa. Kern, Übergänge, Grenzen'', Edition Interfrom 2002, {{ISBN|3-7201-5276-6}}, zusammen mit Ludger Kühnhardt
*''Von der Vision zur Wirklichkeit. Auf dem Weg zur Einigung Europas'', Bouvier 2004, {{ISBN|3-416-03053-2}}
*''United for the Better: My European Way'', John Harper Publishing 2016, {{ISBN|978-09-934549-67}}
==References==
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==External links==
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*[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
*[http://www.poettering.eu Official website]
*[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/008-42857-301-10-44-901-20081120STO42657-2008-27-10-2008/default_en.htm President Pöttering looks back at 30 years of European elections] Last retrieved 24-11-08
*{{YouTube|dmK-f88gcx8|Pöttering states European Parliament
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