Ingo Schmitt is a German politician who was

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

for

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from 1999 to 2005. On 18 September 2005 he was elected to the

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and consequently resigned from the

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. He is a member of the

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Christian Democratic Union.

External links

Website from Ingo Schmitt

Biography by CDU/CSU
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the Bundestag for Berlin MEPs for Germany 1999–2004 Christian Democratic Union of Germany MEPs MEPs for Germany 2004–2009 Pupils of Karlheinz Stockhausen Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany {{Germany-MEP-stub