Hubert Haenel (20 May 1942 – 10 August 2015) was a French
politician
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and a member of the
Senate of France
The Senate (french: Sénat, ) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lower house being the National Assembly, the two houses constituting the legislature of France. The French Senate is made up of 348 senators (''sénateurs'' a ...
. He represented the
Haut-Rhin
Haut-Rhin (, ; Alsatian: ''Owerelsàss'' or '; german: Oberelsass, ) is a department in the Grand Est region of France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine. Its name means ''Upper Rhine''. Haut-Rhin is th ...
department and was a member of the
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right List of political parties in France, political party in France that was one of the two major party, major contemporary political pa ...
Party.
On 24 February 2010 he was nominated to the
Constitutional Council of France
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by the President of the French Senate
Gérard Larcher
Gérard Philippe René André Larcher (born 14 September 1949) is a French politician serving as President of the Senate since 2014, previously holding the office from 2008 to 2011. A member of The Republicans, he has been a Senator for the Yveli ...
.
References
External links
Page on the Senate website
1942 births
2015 deaths
French Senators of the Fifth Republic
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class
Senators of Haut-Rhin
Politicians from Grand Est
People from Meurthe-et-Moselle
French people of German descent
Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur
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