11 Facts About Gabriele Stauner

Gabriele Stauner was born on 22 April 1948 and is a German politician and a former Member of the European Parliament from Germany.

Gabriele Stauner is a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, part of the European People's Party.

In 1972 Stauner became qualified as an interpreter in English, French, and Russian.

Gabriele Stauner took her first state law examination in 1977 and her second state law examination in 1979.

Gabriele Stauner worked as a trainee lawyer from 1977 to 1979 and as a civil servant of the Free State of Bavaria from 1979 to 1987, and in 1990.

Gabriele Stauner has been a member of the Upper Bavaria Christian Social Union district executive since 1995 and vice-chairman of Bad Tolz-Wolfratshausen district executive of the Christian Social Union since 1999.

Gabriele Stauner is a lecturer at the University of Regensburg.

In 1999, Gabriele Stauner became a member of the 5th European Parliament.

Gabriele Stauner became well known in the Parliament for her attacks on Commission secrecy over a fraud case involving the Flechard dairy and abuse of EU butter export subsidies worth tens of millions in the 1990s.

Gabriele Stauner was a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and the delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

In October 2013, Gabriele Stauner returned to the European Parliament to take over from Anja Weisgerber who was elected to the German Bundestag.