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Milan Horáček | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 1983–1985 | |
| Member of the European Parliament forGermany | |
| In office 2004–2009 | |
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| Born | (1946-10-30)30 October 1946 (age 79) Velké Losiny, Czechoslovakia |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens,European Greens |
Milan Horáček (born 30 October 1946 inVelké Losiny,Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-bornGerman politician, a founding member of theGerman Green Party, a former member of theBundestag (1983–1985) and a formerMember of the European Parliament (2004–2009).
From 1965 to 1967 his political activism got him into trouble with theCzechoslovak communist regime, and he was arrested several times. After the suppression of thePrague Spring in 1968, he fled from Czechoslovakia and settled inWest Germany. There he worked in industry and for atrade union magazine. From 1976 to 1981 he studiedpolitical science inFrankfurt, and in 1979 was involved in the establishment ofDie Grünen. In the 1980s he was active inHesse for the party, was a municipal councillor in Frankfurt 1981–1983, and was elected to theBundestag in 1983, serving until 1985, as a member of its Foreign Affairs Committee. His main interests there were foreign affairs and security,Central andEastern Europe andhuman rights. From 1985 to 1990, he was a group specialist on foreign and security policy, human rights and Eastern Europe.
Besides his political work, Horáček engaged in Czechoslovak exile activities. He was publisher of the Czech exile magazineListy ("Sheets"). In 1990 his Czech citizenship was restored and presidentVáclav Havel appointed him to the Council of Advisers. He was director of theHeinrich Böll Foundation's office in Prague from 1991 to 2004, and also worked at its Bonn office 1998–2000.
As a candidate of the Green Party federations ofSaxony,Saxony-Anhalt andThuringia he was elected to theEuropean Parliament in June 2004. He also participates in activities ofGreen Party in theCzech Republic and was not reelected to European Parliament in June 2009.[1]
In 2008, he co-organized (withGisela Kallenbach) a public hearing in the European Parliament ontotalitarian regimes in support of thePrague Declaration.[2] He co-sponsored theEuropean Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism.[3]
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