Heiner Gei�ler is a German politician with the Christian Democratic Union party. Gei�ler studied law and philosophy in Munich and T�bingen, where he graduated in 1960. Gei�ler was German minister for youth, family and health from 1982 to 1985, and also general secretary of the CDU from 1977 to 1989. From being a conservative right-winger until the early 1990s, Gei�ler has become increasingly leftist in his views as far as social policy and globalization are concerned. In 2007 he announced he had become a member of attac network, this happened weeks before the 2007 G8 summit, which Germany, holding the 2007 G8 presidency, was hosting. Gei�ler himself said that his joining of attac has to be seen in the context of the upcoming G8 summit. [More at Wikipedia]

March 3rd, 1930 in Oberndorf am Neckar  /  Died:   Sep 12th, 2017