Michael Cramer | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 20 July 2004 – 2019 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
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| Born | (1949-06-16)16 June 1949 (age 76) |
| Political party |  GermanAlliance 90/The Greens  EUEuropean Green Party |
| Website | www |
Michael Cramer (born 16 June 1949) is a German politician who served asMember of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. He is a member of theAlliance 90/The Greens, part of theEuropean Green Party.
Originally, Cramer came to Berlin to be a teacher. From 1989 to 2004 Cramer was a Member of theAbgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, mainly working on Berlin's transport policy, and served as spokesman for transportation issues forAlliance 90/The Greens inBerlin. In 2004 Cramer was first elected to theEuropean Parliament, and was re-elected in 2009 for the Green Party. Cramer was a member of the European Parliament'sCommittee on Transport and Tourism and between 2014 and 2017 chairperson of that committee.[1] He was part of the Parliament's delegation to the2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference inPoznań,Poland.[2]
Cramer gives regular tours along the former route of the Berlin Wall; he was one of the members of the Abgeordnetenhaus to push for the Berlin Wall Trail, a memorial trail with steles and explanations along the former Wall. He is also the founder of theIron Curtain Trail, a project to complete along-distance cycling route following the old border of theIron Curtain in Europe.[3]
In 2018, Cramer announced that he would not stand in the2019 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4]
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