Michael Gahler is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Hesse. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. He studied in Mainz and Dijon before training as a lawyer. He joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1990, moved to work for the CDU in 1993. He has been a politician since 1986, when he won a seat on the city council of Hattersheim. He was elected to the European Parliament in 1999. He is Vice-President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the ACP?EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the delegation for relations with Iran. He is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism. 

April 22nd, 1960 in Frankfurt (Age 64)