Bernd Posselt

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Bernd Posselt (2013)

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

International Paneuropean Union
.

Political and community activities

Posselt is the leading German advocate of the rights of those Germans whose ancestors lived in 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.

References

External links

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