Milan Horáček, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Milan Horáček

German politician

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1946

Place of Birth: Velké Losiny, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

Profession: politician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Milan Horáček

  • Milan Horácek (born 30 October 1946 in Velké Losiny, then in Czechoslovakia), is a Czech-born German politician, a founding member of the German Green Party, a former member of the Bundestag (1983–1985) and a former Member of the European Parliament (2004–2009). From 1965 to 1967 his political activism got him into trouble with the Czechoslovak communist regime, and he was arrested several times.
  • After the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, he fled from Czechoslovakia and settled in West Germany.
  • There he worked in industry and for a trade union magazine.
  • From 1976 to 1981 he studied political science in Frankfurt, and in 1979 was involved in the establishment of Die Grünen.
  • In the 1980s he was active in Hesse for the party, was a municipal councillor in Frankfurt 1981–1983, and was elected to the Bundestag in 1983, serving until 1985, as a member of its Foreign Affairs Committee.
  • His main interests there were foreign affairs and security, Central and Eastern Europe and human rights.
  • From 1985 to 1990, he was a group specialist on foreign and security policy, human rights and Eastern Europe. Besides his political work, Horácek engaged in Czechoslovakian exile activities.
  • He was publisher of the Czech exile magazine Listy ("Sheets").
  • In 1990 his Czech citizenship was restored and president Václav Havel appointed him to the Council of Advisers.
  • He was director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's office in Prague from 1991 to 2004, and also worked at its Bonn office 1998–2000. As a candidate of the Green Party federations of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia he was elected to the European Parliament in June 2004.
  • He also participates in activities of Green Party in the Czech Republic and was not reelected to European Parliament in June 2009.In 2008, he co-organized (with Gisela Kallenbach) a public hearing in the European Parliament on totalitarian regimes in support of the Prague Declaration.
  • He co-sponsored the European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism.

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