Jürgen Zimmerling (born 17 February 1952 in

Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...

, died 8 October 2005www.europarl.eu.int (de)
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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 ...

during its 5th and 6th terms. He was a member of the

Christian Democratic Union of Germany The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (german: link=no, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands ; CDU ) is a Christian democratic and liberal conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-right ...

, which is affiliated with the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...

. He served on the Committee on Development and Cooperation and later on the

Committee on Development The Committee on Development (Commission du développement, DEVE) is a committee of the European Parliament responsible for promoting, implementing and monitoring the development and cooperation policy of the European Union, notably talks with deve ...

. He was a member of the delegation to the EU-

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

Joint Parliamentary Committee, a member from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union, and a member of the delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

. He was a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, the delegation to the EU-

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Joint Parliamentary Committee, the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, the Subcommittee on Human Rights, and the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

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European Parliament biography
1952 births 2005 deaths MEPs for Germany 2004–2009 Christian Democratic Union of Germany MEPs MEPs for Germany 1999–2004 {{Germany-MEP-stub