• Hellenic American National Council • Canadian Hellenic Congress • International Hellenic Association • Ίδρυμα Δημητρίου και Μαρίας Δελιβάνη • Pan-Macedonian Union – Germany

Present Dr. Gregor Gysi

Member of the parliamentary party “DIE LINKE” in the German in a Zoom presentation “Germany’s Responsibility to Greece- Options for action for the next German Federal Government” Thursday, 2 September 2021 ΩΡΑ 20:00 – 21:15 Athens Time

Dr. Gysi and Κώστας Τασούλας 2020 ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ

➢ MODERATOR

Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, ambassador ad honorem ➢ ΣΥΝΤΟΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΖΟΟΜ Dr. Athanasios Sarantopoulos

➢ Dr. GYSI’S SPEECH

➢ REPARATIONS COMMITTEE POSITIONS (4 min) Helen Savaki, Professor Emerita, University of Crete ➢ QUESTIONS PERIOD EVERY QUESTION INCLUDING ITS INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT WILL BE TWO (2) MINUTES MAXIMUM. Ζωντανή αναμετάδοση στο ΙNTERNATIONAL HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FACEBOOK

Curriculum vitae

Dr. Gregor Gysi

• Member of the parliamentary party “DIE LINKE” in the German Bundestag • Born on 16th of January 1948 in , divorced, three children • 1954 to 1962 Primary school • 1962 to 1966 High school; in parallel, an apprenticeship in cattle breeding • 1966 Final Secondary-school examination • 1966 to 1970 Study of Law at the Humboldt University Berlin • 1970 to 1971 Assistant to a judge, later assistant to a lawyers’ organization • (“Collegium of lawyers”) • 1971 - 1975 extraordinary aspirant at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dissertation A, Dr. Jur. • Since 1971 a Chartered lawyer in Berlin • 1988 to 1989 Chairman of the “Collegium of Lawyers” in Berlin and Chairman of the Council of the “Collegium of the Lawyers in the GDR”. Member of the trade union “ver.di” • December 1989 to January 1993 Chairman of the party of (PDS) • 18th March to 2nd October 1990 Member of the GDR Parliament (“”) and Chairman of the Parliamentary Party of the PDS • 3rd October 1990 to 1st February 2002 Member of the German Bundestag • 1990 to 1998 Chairman of the PDS group and, 1998 to October 2000, Chairman of the PDS Parliamentary party. • 17th January 2002 until his resignation on 31st July 2002 Deputy Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Economics, Labor und Women´s Issues in the SPD-PDS coalition governing the city of Berlin • From August 2002 onwards again active as a lawyer. • 18th September 2005 - 2009 elected directly in the constituency No. 85 (Berlin- Treptow - Köpenick) to the German Bundestag. Together with Chairman of the parliamentary party “DIE LINKE”. • November 2009 – 13th October 2015 the Chairman of the parliamentary party “DIE LINKE”. • Since September 2009 elected directly in the constituency No. 85 (Berlin- Treptow-Köpenick) to the German Bundestag again. Chairman of the parliamentary party “DIE LINKE”. • 17th of December 2016, the president of the European .

• Chairman of the German-Greek parliamentary group, Deputy Chairman of the German-Russian parliamentary group and Member of the German-Pacific Parliamentary Group. Since May 2020 is the foreign policy spokesman of the parliamentary fraction DIE LINKE.