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Werner Hoyer
Dr. Werner Hoyer is a Member of the German
Bundestag and a member of the German Liberal Party (Freien Demokratischen
Partei, FDP). Since 2000 he has also been President of the European
Liberal Democrats Party (ELDR). Dr. Hoyer was Minister of State
in the German Foreign Office from 1994 to 1998. From 1993 to 1994,
he was General Secretary of the FDP. He was also the FDP Chief whip
for four years from 1989 to 1993 and party spokesman on security
affairs in the Bundestag from 1990 to 1994.
Dr. Hoyer started his political career
in the early 1980s as a member of the National Executive Board of
the Young Liberals and Chairman of the FDP Cologne District Association.
Since 1984 he has been a member of the Executive Board of the FDP
state association in North-Rhine Westphalia. Dr. Hoyer is a Major
of the German Air Force Reserve (GAF). He is Vice-President of the
Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft and a lecturer in international
economic relations at the University of Cologne.
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