Hans-Peter Mayer (born 5 May 1944, in Riedlingen) is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for Lower Saxony from 1999 until 2014. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.

Hans Peter Mayer in 1999

During his time in parliament, Mayer sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and was a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He was also a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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  • 1975: Second state law examination
  • Dr.jur
  • 1975: utr
  • 1990: PhD

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  • since 1975: lawyer
  • 1980-1990: professor of law and administration
  • 1990-1991: rector of the Catholic Vocational College of North Germany
  • 1991-1994: under-secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology, Saxony-Anhalt
  • 1975-1980: municipal councillor in Bad Waldsee
  • 1984-1991: chairman of Vechta district of Europa Union
  • 1995-1999: land chairman of the economic council of the CDU of Saxony-Anhalt and the Federal Commission on European policy
  • since 1995: chairman of the land specialist committee of the CDU of Oldenburg on development of the Weser-Ems region.
  • 1999-2014: Member of the European Parliament

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