Egon Alfred Klepsch | |
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 Official portrait, 1992 | |
| President of the European Parliament | |
| In office 31 January 1992 – 19 July 1994 | |
| Preceded by | Enrique Barón Crespo |
| Succeeded by | Klaus Hänsch |
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| Born | (1930-01-30)30 January 1930 Bodenbach (Podmokly),Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 18 September 2010(2010-09-18) (aged 80) Koblenz,Germany |
| Political party | CDU,EPP |
Egon Alfred Klepsch (30 January 1930 – 18 September 2010[1][2][3][4][5]) was a German politician (CDU).
In the years 1963–1969, Klepsch was Federal leader of theJunge Union. In 1965 he worked briefly as an election campaign manager forLudwig Erhard. In the same year, he was elected to the GermanBundestag, to which he belonged until 1980.
From 1964, Klepsch had been active at the European level. From 1973 he was aMember of the European Parliament in parallel to the Bundestag. After the first direct election of the parliament in 1979 Klepsch became chairman of theEuropean People's Party (EPP) parliamentary group. After he had stood in vain in 1982 for the office ofPresident of the European Parliament, he was elected in 1992 with the support of the EPP andParty of European Socialists parliamentary groups. In 1994 he retired from the European Parliament and became an advisor to Deutschen Vermögensberatungs AG.[6]
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