What is Hans-Gert Pöttering?
{{Infobox Officeholder |name = Hans-Gert Pöttering |image = Pöttering, Hans-Gert-9757.jpg |order =23rd |office = President of the European Parliament |term_start = 16 January 2007 |term_end = 14 July 2009 |vicepresident = {{List collapsed|title=14|1=[[Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou]]<br>[[Alejo Vidal-Quadras]]<br>[[Gérard Onesta]]<br>[[Edward McMillan-Scott]]<br>[[Mario Mauro]]<br>[[Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez]]<br>[[Luigi Cocilovo]]<br>[[Mechtild Rothe]]<br>[[Luisa Morgantini]]<br>[[Pierre Moscovici]]<br>[[Manuel António Dos Santos]]<br>[[Diana Wallis]]<br>[[Marek Siwiec]]<br>[[Adam Bielan]]}} |predecessor = [[Josep Borrell]] |successor = [[Jerzy Buzek]] |office2 = Leader of the [[European People's Party (European Parliament group)|European People's Party-European Democrats]] |term_start2 = 20 July 1999 |term_end2 = 16 January 2007 |predecessor2 = [[Wilfried Martens]] |successor2 = [[Joseph Daul]] |constituency_MP3 = [[Germany (European Parliament constituency)|Germany]] |parliament3 = European |term_start3 = 17 July 1979 |term_end3 = 30 June 2014 |office4 = Chairman of the [[Konrad Adenauer Foundation]] |term_start4 = 1 January 2010 |term_end4 = |predecessor4 = [[Bernhard Vogel (politician)|Bernhard Vogel]] |successor4 = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|9|15|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Bersenbrück]], Germany |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]] |children = Johannes<br>Benedict |residence = [[Bad Iburg]], [[Allied-occupied Germany|Germany]] |profession = Lawyer |alma_mater = [[University of Bonn]]<br>[[University of Geneva]]<br>[[Graduate Institute of International Studies]]<br>[[Columbia University]] |website = [http://www.kas.de/wf/en/71.7632/ Official website] }} '''Hans-Gert Pöttering''' (born 15 September 1945) is a German conservative politician ([[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)