Joachim Zeller

Joachim Zeller ( born July 1, 1952 in Opole, Poland ) is a German politician ( CDU) and Member of the European Parliament.

  • 2.1 Miscellaneous commitment
  • 2.2 Private

Life

Education and work

Zeller studied at Humboldt University in Berlin Slavic. From 1977 to 1992 he was a research associate at the University Library of Humboldt University.

Political career

Zeller is a member of the CDU since 1990.

From 1990 to 1992 he was honorary politically active as a district councilor in the Borough Assembly of Berlin-Mitte. 1992 to 1996 he worked full-time as a district councilor for environment and health. As of May 1995, he also worked for city planning and construction supervision in the Mitte District. From February 1996 to 25 October 2006, he was Deputy Mayor in the Mitte district. Since 26 October 2006 he is deputy district mayor of Berlin-Mitte and District Councillor for business, real estate and town clerk's office. In the European elections in 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament and of the Berlin CDU deputies.

From 2003 to 2004 he was Chairman of the CDU state in Berlin. In autumn 2008, Zeller was after the resignation of Ingo Schmitt again appointed acting chairman.

In November 2008, Zeller was elected to the Berlin CDU top candidate for the 2009 European elections. He sat down beside it through against former Secretary of Defense and former Presidents in the House Fried Pflüger. Since early February 2009 Zell is chairman of the local branch of the CDU in Berlin Bernauer Strasse.

Zeller is since March 2010, the CDU / EPP representative to the Board of bipartisan European Union Parliamentarians European Parliament.

MEPs

Zeller is part of the Group of the European People's Party ( Christian Democrats).

As he is a member of the Committee on Regional Development and the Delegation to the EU- Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. Deputy, he is in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Security and Defence, in the Delegation to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committees EU -Kazakhstan, EU -Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia and in the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly EURO- NEST

Others commitment

Zeller is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians European Parliament.

Private

Zeller is widowed and has four children.

Political positions

As one of 28 members of Parliament Mr. Zeller turned on 18 April 2012 ( against a majority of 580 votes in favor, 74 abstentions) against a resolution for a legal basis for the monitoring of Internet censorship by autocratic regimes and EU export regulations technologies that serve to Internet censorship, calls.

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