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Gernot Erler | |
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| Minister of State at theFederal Foreign Office with Günther Gloser | |
| In office 2005–2009 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 1987–2017 | |
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| Born | (1944-05-03)3 May 1944 (age 81) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |  Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
Gernot Erler (born 3 May 1944 inMeißen) is a German politician (SPD) who was member of theBundestag, the German parliament, from 1987 to 2017.
Erler studied history, Slavic studies and political science inBerlin andFreiburg from 1963 to 1967.[1]
Erler first became a member of the GermanBundestag in the1987 national elections. Following the1994 national elections, he joined the SPD parliamentary group's leadership around chairmanRudolf Scharping. From 1994 until 1998, he served as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats underChancellorAngela Merkel following the2005 federal elections, Erler led the SPD delegation in the working group on foreign affairs;[2] his counterpart from the CDU/CSU wasFriedbert Pflüger. Under the leadership of ministerFrank-Walter Steinmeier, he subsequently served asMinister of State (alongside Günter Gloser) at theFederal Foreign Office from 2005 to 2009. When the SPD returned into the opposition from 2009 until 2013, Erler served as deputy chairman of his parliamentary group, again under Steinmeier's leadership.
From 2014 until 2017, Erler served as the German government's Coordinator for Inter-Societal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership Countries at the Federal Foreign Office. From 2015 until 2016, he assumed the position of Special Representative of Germany for the country's chairmanship of theOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2016, in addition to his other responsibilities.[3]
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