Heiner Geißler

Who is Heiner Geißler?

Heiner Geißler is a German politician with the Christian Democratic Union party.

Geißler studied law and philosophy in Munich and Tübingen, where he graduated in 1960.

Geißler was German minister for youth, family and health from 1982 to 1985, and also general secretary of the CDU from 1977 to 1989. From being a conservative right-winger until the early 1990s, Geißler has become increasingly leftist in his views as far as social policy and globalization are concerned. In 2007 he announced he had become a member of attac network, this happened weeks before the 2007 G8 summit, which Germany, holding the 2007 G8 presidency, was hosting. Geißler himself said that his joining of attac has to be seen in the context of the upcoming G8 summit.