Michael Gahler

Michael Gahler
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 1999
Personal details
Born	22 April 1960 (1960-04-22) (age 51) Frankfurt
Political party	Christian Democratic Union, European People's Party
Profession	Lawyer, diplomat

Michael Gahler (born April 22, 1960 Frankfurt/Main) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Hesse. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.

He studied in Mainz and Dijon (1981-87) before training as a lawyer. He joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1990, moved to work for the CDU in 1993. He has been a politician since 1986, when he won a seat on the city council of Hattersheim. He was elected to the European Parliament in 1999.

He is Vice-President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the delegation for relations with Iran.

He is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Prague Declaration: Selected signatories". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. http://praguedeclaration.org/vipsig. Retrieved 2011-05-10. 

See also

• http://www.michael-gahler.de

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Name	Gahler, Michael
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Date of birth	1960
Place of birth	Frankfurt
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