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{{Short description|German lawyer, historian and conservative politician (born 1945)}}
Prof. Dr. '''Hans-Gert Pöttering''' (born ], ] in ]/]) is a German conservative politician (]), and the current ] of the ].
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'''Hans-Gert Pöttering''' (born 15 September 1945) is a German lawyer, historian and conservative politician (], ]), who served as ] from January 2007 to July 2009 and as Chairman of the CDU-affiliated ] from 2010 to 2017.
He studied law, political science and history in ], ] and at the ] in ]. He took his first juristic state exam in ], was promoted Dr. phil. in political science and history in ] and took his second juristic state exam in ].

He served as a ] continuously since the first elections in 1979 until 2014 and was Chairman of the ] 1999–2007. When he stepped down in 2014 he was the European Parliament's longest-serving member. As president of the European Parliament he proposed the creation of the ] museum in Brussels.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

==Early life and education==
Pöttering never got to know his father who was ] during the last days of the ]. After ] and military service, he studied law, political science and history at the ], the ], the ] in Geneva and at ] 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.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}


==Political career== ==Political career==
===Member of the European Parliament, 1979–2014===
Pöttering was a member of the ] 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 ]. From 1994 to 1996, he chaired the working group on the Intergovernmental Conference of the ] (EPP) and ] Group, the results of which became the official EPP position for the ].

In 1994, Pöttering became Vice-President of the EPP, and from 1999 to 2007, he was the Chairman of the ] Group in the European Parliament. He was the top candidate of the ] in the ].


Together with ] he is a member of the advisory board of the pro-European initiative "]". He was a member of the ].<ref name="REH">{{cite web|title= About Us – Reconciliation of European Histories Group|date=21 April 2010|url=http://eureconciliation.wordpress.com/about/|publisher=]|access-date=1 August 2011}}</ref>
He has been a member of the ] since ], one of only 14 members of the European Parliament who have served continuously since the first elections.


===President of the European Parliament, 2007–2009===
From 1984 to 1994 he was chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. From 1994 to 1996, he chaired the EPP and EPP-ED working group on the Intergovernmental Conference 1994, the results of which became the official EPP position for the Treaty of Amsterdam. In 1994, he also became vice-chairman of the EPP, and from 1999 to 2007 he was chairman of the ].
] at the ] Congress in Warsaw, 29 April 2009]]
As part of a deal with the socialist group, it was agreed that he would succeed ] 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 ], Danish Eurosceptic ] and French Communist ].


As President of the European Parliament he initiated the ] 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>
He was the top candidate of the CDU in the 2004 European elections.
For many years he is serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ] in ].


===Later career===
He also is a member of the Executive Board (''Präsidium'') of the CDU.
On 4 December 2009 Pöttering was elected Chairman of the ] from 1 January 2010; he was succeeded by ] in 2018.


When the EPP membership of Hungarian party ] was suspended in 2019, EPP president ] appointed Pöttering – alongside ] and ] – to a group of high-level experts who were mandated to monitor Fidesz's compliance with EPP values.<ref>Maïa de La Baume and Lili Bayer (20 March 2019), '']''.</ref><ref> ] (EPP), press release of 20 March 2019.</ref>
===President of the European Parliament===


==Political positions==
As part of a deal with the socialist group, he was to succeeded ] as President of the European Parliament in the second part of this term, which he did on ]. 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.
Pöttering is known as an enthusiastic ] and an ally of ]. He has stated that his priority will be to rejuvenate the ].


In February 2020, Pöttering joined around fifty former European prime ministers and foreign ministers in signing an open letter published by British newspaper '']'' to condemn ] ]'s ], saying it would create an ]-like situation in occupied Palestinian territory.<ref> '']'', 27 February 2020.</ref>
==Platform==


==Recognition==
Pöttering is known as an enthusiatic European ] and an ally of ]. He has stated his priority will be to rejuvenate the European constitution.
=== National honours ===
* {{Flag|Germany}}: Great Cross with Star and Sash of the ] (2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kas.de/statische-inhalte-detail/-/content/dr.-hans-gert-poettering|title=Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering|date=2009-12-16|website=Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung|language=de|access-date=2019-03-04}}</ref>


=== Foreign honours ===
==Awards==
* {{Flag|Austria}}: Grand Golden ] (2002)
* {{Flag|Holy See}}: Grand Cross of the ] (2007)
* {{Flag|Croatia}}: Great Cross of Merit of the ] with Star and Shoulder Ribbon (2007)
* {{Flag|Italy}}: 1st Class of the ] (2008)
* {{Flag|Ukraine}}: 2nd Class of the ] (2008)
* {{Flag|Latvia}}: Grand Cross of the ] (2009)
* {{Flag|Portugal}}: Grand Cross of the ] (2009)
* {{Flag|France}}: Commander of the ] (2011)
* {{Flag|Spain}}: Grand Cross of the ] (2011)
* {{Flag|Poland}}: Knight Commander's Cross of the ] (2013)
* {{Flag|Lithuania}}: Commander of the ] (2013)
* {{Flag|Hungary}}: Grand Cross of the ] (2013)
* {{Flag|Estonia}}: 1st Class of the ] (2013)
* {{Flag|Romania}}: Grand Cross of the ] (2014)
* {{Flag|Tunisia}}: Grand Officer of the ] 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===
Pöttering has received the ], the ], the ] and the ].
* ] of ] (1995)
*{{Flag|Luxembourg}}: Mérite Européen Medal in Gold, Fondation du Mérite européen (2002)
* European Honorary Senator, the 'MEP of the Year 2004' by newspaper ‘]’ (2004)
*] (2007)
* European Excellence Award of the ] ('Premio a la Excelencia Europea', 2008)
* Ben Gurion Medal of ] (2010)
* Polish-German Prize (2011)


==Private life== ===Honorary degrees===
* Doctor Honoris Causa of ] in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
* Doctor Honoris Causa of the ], Poland
* Doctor Honoris Causa of the ], Poland
* Doctor Honoris Causa of the ], Santiago de Chile
* Doctor Honoris Causa of ] in Istanbul, Turkey
* Doctor Honoris Causa of the ], Poland
* Doctor Honoris Causa of ], Philippines
* Honorary Professor at the ]
* Doctor Honoris Causa of the ], Seoul
* Doctor Honoris Causa of the ], Vilnius
* Honorary citizen of ] (Germany) and ] (Poland)


==Other activities==
He lives in ] at ], is ] and has two sons.
* Friends of Europe, Member of the Board of Trustees<ref>{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Friends of Europe.</ref>
* Reimagine Europa, Member of the Advisory Board<ref> {{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>
* ], Member of the Executive Board<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303205112/https://www.martenscentre.eu/wilfried-martens-centre-european-studies |date=3 March 2020 }} ].</ref>


==Personal life==
== External links ==
Pöttering lives in ], ]. 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|access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref>
*http://www.cdu.de/ueber-uns/buvo/poettering/poettering.htm
*http://www.poettering.eu


==Works==
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*''Adenauers Sicherheitspolitik 1955–1963. Ein Beitrag zum deutsch-amerikanischen Verhältnis'', Droste Verlag 1975, {{ISBN|3-7700-0412-4}}
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*''Europas Vereinigte Staaten'', Editio Interfrom 2000, {{ISBN|3-7201-5237-5}}, with Ludger Kühnhardt
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*''Weltpartner Europäische Union'', Edition Interfrom 2001, {{ISBN|3-7201-5252-9}}, with Ludger Kühnhardt
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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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German lawyer, historian and conservative politician (born 1945) "Pottering" redirects here. For the software developer, see Lennart Poettering.

Hans-Gert Pöttering
Pöttering in 2014
President of the European Parliament
In office
16 January 2007 – 14 July 2009
Vice PresidentRodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou
Preceded byJosep Borrell
Succeeded byJerzy Buzek
Leader of the European People's Party-European Democrats
In office
20 July 1999 – 16 January 2007
Preceded byWilfried Martens
Succeeded byJoseph Daul
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
In office
17 July 1979 – 30 June 2014
Chair of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
In office
1 January 2010 – 1 December 2018
Preceded byBernhard Vogel
Succeeded byNorbert Lammert
Personal details
Born (1945-09-15) 15 September 1945 (age 79)
Bersenbrück, Germany
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
ChildrenJohannes
Benedict
Residence(s)Bad Iburg, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Bonn
University of Geneva
Graduate Institute of International Studies
Columbia University
ProfessionLawyer
WebsiteOfficial website

Hans-Gert Pöttering (born 15 September 1945) is a German lawyer, historian and conservative politician (CDU, European People's Party), who served as President of the European Parliament from January 2007 to July 2009 and as Chairman of the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 2010 to 2017.

He served as a Member of the European Parliament continuously since the first elections in 1979 until 2014 and was Chairman of the European People's Party-European Democrats 1999–2007. When he stepped down in 2014 he was the European Parliament's longest-serving member. As president of the European Parliament he proposed the creation of the House of European History museum in Brussels.

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 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.

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 CDU in the 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". He was a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group.

President of the European Parliament, 2007–2009

Pöttering with President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso at the 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. For many years he is serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the House of European History in Brussels.

Later career

On 4 December 2009 Pöttering was elected Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 1 January 2010; he was succeeded by Norbert Lammert in 2018.

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 Fidesz's compliance with EPP values.

Political positions

Pöttering is known as an enthusiastic 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 Middle East peace plan, saying it would create an apartheid-like situation in occupied Palestinian territory.

Recognition

National honours

Foreign honours

Awards

Honorary degrees

Other activities

Personal life

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

Works

  • Adenauers Sicherheitspolitik 1955–1963. Ein Beitrag zum deutsch-amerikanischen Verhältnis, Droste Verlag 1975, ISBN 3-7700-0412-4
  • Europas Vereinigte Staaten, Editio Interfrom 2000, ISBN 3-7201-5237-5, with Ludger Kühnhardt
  • Weltpartner Europäische Union, Edition Interfrom 2001, ISBN 3-7201-5252-9, with Ludger Kühnhardt
  • 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

  1. "About Us – Reconciliation of European Histories Group". Reconciliation of European Histories Group. 21 April 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  2. "Conceptual Basis for a House of European History" (PDF). Europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  3. Maïa de La Baume and Lili Bayer (20 March 2019), EPP plans to strip Hungary’s Fidesz of membership rights: document Politico Europe.
  4. FIDESZ membership suspended after EPP Political Assembly European People's Party (EPP), press release of 20 March 2019.
  5. Grave concern about US plan to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict The Guardian, 27 February 2020.
  6. "Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering". Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (in German). 16 December 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  7. "Tunisia Weekly Update: Essid Presents Ten Measures to Fight Unemployment; Belhaj Resigns as President's Chief of Staff". POMED. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  8. Board of Trustees Friends of Europe.
  9. Advisory Board Archived 23 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine Reimagine Europa.
  10. Executive Board Archived 3 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
  11. "EPP Group in the European Parliament". Eppgroup.eu. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

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