Ruprecht Polenz

Ruprecht Polenz        ( politician)
Born	26 May 1946  Grosspostwitz,  Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Münster
Member of	Atlantic Initiative, Atlantik-Brücke, European Council on Foreign Relations, German Atlantic Society, Marshall Memorial Fellowship
German politician. Supporter of Turkish membership in the EU.  Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Union In office 10 April 2000 - November 2000  Member of the Bundestag  In office 1994 - 2013 Preceded by Gunter Huonker, Albrecht Müller, Stefan Schwarz Succeeded by Franziska Brantner, Özcan Mutlu Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs between 2005 and 2013

Ruprecht Rolf Gotthelf Polenz is a German politician.

Background

Polenz spent the first six years of his childhood in Saxony. Since his parents did not want him to be educated in East Germany, the family fled to West Germany in 1952.

Education

After graduating from high school in 1966, Polenz was initially a volunteer soldier and reserve officer. As a motive, he stated his conviction that war can only be avoided by deterrence. Then, from 1968, he studied law as a scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation at the University of Münster, which he completed in 1973. After completing his legal traineeship, he also passed the second state examination in 1976 and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Tax Law at the University of Münster from 1977 to 1980.

Career

In 1980, he moved to the Münster Chamber of Industry and Commerce as head of the Press and Public Relations department, of which he then became Managing Director in 1984. From 1994 to October 2013, he was on leave in this capacity for the duration of his membership in the German Bundestag.

From 1975 to 1994, Polenz was a member of the Münster City Council. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2013 and was Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 2005 to 2013.

Polenz was one of the first CDU members of the Bundestag to advocate the introduction of Islamic religious education in the German language. In foreign policy, one of his main focuses was on Islamic countries such as Turkey and Iran.

Ruprecht Polenz was President of the German Atlantic Society from 1996 to 2006. Since 2014, Polenz has been the Dean of the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL). Polenz is also a member of the think tank Centre for Liberal Modernism.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2002	30 May 2002	2 June 2002	US Virginia Chantilly Westfields Marriott	The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
Brussels Forum/2007	2007	2007	Belgium Brussels	2007 get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2009	20 March 2009	22 March 2009	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2010	26 March 2010	28 March 2010	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2011	25 March 2011	27 March 2011	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2013	2013	2013	Belgium Brussels	2013 get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund.
Halifax International Security Forum/2009	20 November 2009	22 November 2009	Canada Halifax Nova Scotia	Spooky conference in Canada in November 2009
Munich Security Conference/2009	2009	2009	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2010	5 February 2010	7 February 2010	Germany Munich Bavaria	An anti-war demonstration outside described it as "Nothing more than a media-effectively staged war propaganda event, which this year had the purpose of justifying the NATO troop increase in Afghanistan and glorifying the continuation of the war as a contribution to peace and stability."
Munich Security Conference/2011	4 February 2011	6 February 2011	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 47th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2012	3 February 2012	5 February 2012	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 48th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2014	31 January 2014	2 February 2014	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."

 

Event Witnessed

Event	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2015	Munich Bavaria Germany	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."

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