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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.