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{{short description|German politician (born 1956)}}

[[Image:Bernd Posselt 2013.jpg|right|thumb|Bernd Posselt (2013)]]
'''Bernd Posselt''' (born 4 June 1956 in [[Pforzheim]]) is a German [[politician]], who served as a [[Member of the European Parliament]] from 1994 to 2014, representing the [[Christian Social Union in Bavaria]] (CSU) and the [[European People's Party]] (EPP). He is currently a member of the executive board of the CSU.

==Personal and professional background==

Posselt was born in [[Pforzheim]], [[Baden-Württemberg]] as a son of [[Heimatvertriebene|expellees]].<ref>[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?language=EN&id=2229 Information about Bernd POSSELT on the European Parliament Website]</ref> He was a [[Member of the European Parliament]] from 1994 to 2014.<ref>[http://www.ovb-online.de/politik/unabwaehlbare-5096971.html Newspaper article on Bernd Posselt]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 1998 he became president of the ''Paneuropa-Union Deutschland'', the German branch of the [[International Paneuropean Union]].

==Political and community activities==

Posselt is a German advocate of the rights of those Germans whose ancestors lived in the [[Sudetenland]] area of [[Bohemia]] as well as [[Moravia]] and who were expelled by the [[Potsdam Conference]] and the governments in Central and Eastern Europe after the [[Second World War]]. His main goal - and the principal aim of the [[Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft]] that he has led since 2000 - is to revoke the so-called [[Beneš decrees]], as well as other acts of the [[Expulsion of Germans after World War II|post-war expulsion]]s that were meant to punish the German population in the Sudetenland as a whole for its prevailing support of [[Nazism]].

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==External links==
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* [http://www.bernd-posselt.de/person01.html Official website]
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[[Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]