predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party office birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name
enrique barón crespo klaus hänsch 18 september 2010 bodenbach -lrb- podmokly -rrb- , czechoslovakia koblenz , germany cdu , epp president of the european parliament 30 january 1930 17th 1992 bundesarchiv egon klepsch.jpg b 145 bild-f061785-0005 , hamburg , cdu-bundesparteitag , egon klepsch
 1994 egon alfred klepsch
egon klepsch

egon alfred klepsch -lrb- january 30 , 1930 -- september 17/18 , 2010 . -rrb-
was a german politician -lrb- cdu -rrb- .
in the years 1963 -- 1969 dr. klepsch was federal leader of the junge union .
in 1965 he worked briefly as an election campaign manager for ludwig erhard .
in the same year he was elected to the german bundestag , to which he belonged until 1980 .
since 1964 dr. klepsch had been active at the european level .
from 1973 he was a member of the european parliament in parallel to the bundestag .
after the first direct election of the parliament in 1979 klepsch became chairman of the epp parliamentary group .
after he had stood in vain in 1982 for the office of president of the european parliament , he was elected in 1992 with the support of the epp and pes parliamentary groups .
in 1994 he retired from the european parliament and became an advisor to deutschen vermögensberatungs ag .
