Bernd Posselt
German politician
Bernd Posselt (born 4 June 1956 in Pforzheim) is a German politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2014, representing the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) and the European People's Party (EPP). He is currently a member of the executive board of the CSU.
Personal and professional background
Posselt was born in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg as a son of expellees.[1] He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2014.[2] In 1998 he became president of the Paneuropa-Union Deutschland, the German branch of the International Paneuropean Union.
Political and community activities
Posselt is the leading German advocate of the rights of those Germans whose ancestors lived in the Sudetenland area of Bohemia as well as Moravia and who were expelled by the Potsdam conference and the governments in Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. His main goal - and the principal aim of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft that he has led since 2000 - is to revoke the so-called Beneš decrees, as well as other acts of the post-war expulsions that were meant to punish the German population in the Sudetenland as a whole for its prevailing support of Nazism.
Posselt is respected in the Sudeten German community and in his home state of Bavaria. The conservative Bavarian government has often supported the Sudeten German community, and was among those demanding that the Czech Republic should repeal the Beneš decrees before being allowed into European Union.
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German members of the European Parliament (1994–1999)- Gerhard Botz
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- Norbert Glante
- Willi Görlach
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- Klaus Hänsch
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- Magdalene Hoff
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- Heinz Kindermann
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- Annemarie Kuhn
- Helmut Kuhne
- Bernd Lange
- Rolf Linkohr
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- Bernhard Rapkay
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- Dagmar Roth-Behrendt
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- Willi Rothley
- Jannis Sakellariou
- Heinke Salisch (until 1 February 1996)
- Detlev Samland
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- Barbara Schmidbauer
- Martin Schulz
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- Christof Tannert
- Ralf Walter
- Barbara Weiler
- Rosemarie Wemheuer
- Wilmya Zimmermann
- Siegbert Alber (until October 6 1997)
- Otto Bardong
- Rolf Berend
- Reimer Böge
- Elmar Brok
- Karl-Heinz Florenz
- Honor Funk
- Michael Gahler (from 23 April 1999)
- Anne-Karin Glase
- Lutz Goepel
- Alfred Gomolka
- Renate Heinisch
- Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt
- Georg Jarzembowski
- Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert
- Peter Kittelmann
- Christa Klaß
- Dieter-Lebrecht Koch
- Christoph Werner Konrad
- Werner Langen
- Brigitte Langenhagen
- Klaus-Heiner Lehne
- Marlene Lenz
- Peter Liese
- Kurt Malangré
- Thomas Mann
- Winfried Menrad
- Peter Mombaur
- Marlies Mosiek-Urbahn (until 22 April 1999)
- Hartmut Nassauer
- Doris Pack
- Hans-Gert Pöttering
- Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl
- Günter Rinsche
- Horst Schnellhardt
- Jürgen Schröder
- Konrad Schwaiger
- Diemut Theato
- Stanislaw Tillich
- Rainer Wieland (from 10 October 1997)
- Karl von Wogau
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf
- Undine von Blottnitz
- Hiltrud Breyer
- Ozan Ceyhun (from 23 November 1998)
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler
- Edith Müller
- Claudia Roth (until 18 November 1998)
- Elisabeth Schroedter
- Irene Soltwedel-Schäfer
- Wilfried Telkämper
- Wolfgang Ullmann
- Frieder Otto Wolf
- Markus Ferber
- Ingo Friedrich
- Maren Günther
- Otto von Habsburg
- Xaver Mayer
- Bernd Posselt
- Edgar Schiedermeier
- Ursula Schleicher
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