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Klaus Welle

Klaus Welle became the Secretary General of the European Parliament on 15 March 2009. He was previously Head of the Office (chef de cabinet) of the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, from January 2007. He succeeded Harald Rømer, a Danish career civil servant, who had reached retirement age.Born in Beelen, Germany in July 1964, Welle studied economics at the Witten/Herdecke University and worked in banking, before becoming Head of Foreign and European Affairs for the CDU party in Bonn (1991–94). A stromg admirer of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Welle made his political reputation by masterminding an unexpectedly strong CDU performance in the June 1994 European elections. He then served as Secretary General of the European People's Party (EPP) - the transnational, centre-right, European political party - before becoming Secretary General of the EPP Group, then known as the EPP-ED Group, in the European Parliament. He was subsequently appointed as the first Director General for EU Internal Policies (DG IPOL) within the general secretariat of the European Parliament, the administrative department which services the 17 parliamentary committees dealing with domestic EU issues. Wikipedia