Egon Klepsch

Egon Alfred Klepsch ( born January 30, 1930 in the bottom stream, Czechoslovakia; † 18 September 2010 in Koblenz ) was a German politician ( CDU).

Life

1945 Klepsch was interned as Sudeten Germans for six months in a Czechoslovak forced labor camp and then expelled along with his parents from his home. In Magdeburg in 1949 he laid the High School and started in Rostock a study of history and geography. Klepsch was part of a resistance group within the FDJ. In order to escape arrest by the State Security, he fled to West Berlin in 1950. He finished his studies in Marburg in 1954 with his doctorate on the Russia policy of Gustav Stresemann. 1959 to 1965 he was a lecturer in International Politics in scientific research and teaching staff of the Bundeswehr.

In the years 1963-1969 Klepsch was National Chairman of the Junge Union. In 1965 he was briefly employed as a campaign organizer for Ludwig Erhard in the Federal Chancellery. In the same year he became a member of the German Bundestag, where he remained until 1980. Since 1964, Klepsch committed at European level. He was President of the International Union Young Christian Democrats of Europe in the same year and was board member of the EUCD ( until 1970). From the year 1973 he was parallel to the Bundestag and the European Parliament. 1977-1982 and 1984-1992 Klepsch was Chairman of the EPP Group. That he has been Group President, together with his colleague Rudi Arndt SPE the " beginning of chaos -prone Parliament a structure ", is credited to him as a great merit. After he had tried in vain to 1982 the President of Parliament and Vice- President, was Klepsch was elected in 1992 by a vote of the EPP Group and the Social Democrats for two years in this office. In 1994 he resigned voluntarily from the European Parliament and was a consultant for the German investment advice.

From 1989 to 1997, Egon Klepsch President of the European Union, Germany. Since 1997 he was the honorary president.