Martin Schulz
| Martin Schulz | |
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| President of the European Parliament | |
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In office 17 January 2012 – 17 January 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Jerzy Buzek |
| Succeeded by | Antonio Tajani |
| Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | |
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In office 5 July 2004 – 17 January 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Enrique Barón Crespo |
| Succeeded by | Hannes Swoboda |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 19 July 1994 – 10 February 2017 |
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| Constituency | Germany |
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20 December 1955 Hehlrath, Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Height | 1.65 m |
| Spouse(s) | Inge Schulz |
| Children | 2 |
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| Website | Official website |
Martin Schulz (born 20 December 1955) is a German Social Democratic (SPD) politician. He was the President of the European Parliament from 2012 to 2017. In November 2016, he announced he would not seek a third term, but instead would stand in 2017 as the SPD candidate for the German Chancellorship. Prior to his Presidency of the European Parliament, he was the leader of its Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group. Elected as European Parliament President in 2012, Schulz was re-elected on 1 July 2014. On 17 January 2017, he was succeeded by Antonio Tajani of the EPP. In January 2017, Sigmar Gabriel withdrew as the SPD candidate for the German Chancellorship and recommended Martin Schulz as his replacement.
Martin Schulz was born in the village of Hehlrath, which is now a part of Eschweiler in western Rhineland, near the Dutch and Belgian borders, as one of five children. His father Albert Schulz was a local policeman and belonged to a social democratic family; his mother Clara Schulz belonged to a conservative Catholic family and was active in the Christian Democratic Union. Having grown up in the border area between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, Schulz has relatives in all three countries.
After four years at primary school, from 1962 to 1966, Schulz attended the Heilig-Geist (Holy Spirit) grammar school, a private Roman Catholic school run by the Holy Ghost Fathers (or Spiritans), in Broich (now Würselen), a district of the town of Broichweiden, for nine years. As a teenager, he went to France on a school exchange programme.
From 1975 to 1977 Schulz then trained to be a bookseller. The next two years he worked for a number of publishing houses and bookshops, and in 1982 he opened his own bookshop in Würselen, which he ran until 1994.
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