Werner Schulz

Werner Schulz
Schulz in 2010
Born	(1950-01-22)22 January 1950 Zwickau, Saxony, East Germany
Died	9 November 2022(2022-11-09) (aged 72) Berlin, Germany
Occupations	Politician member of Bundestag member of the European Parliament
Political party	Alliance '90/The Greens
Awards	Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Werner Gustav Schulz (22 January 1950 – 9 November 2022) was a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens. Trained in food technology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he worked as a research assistant. He was an activist for peace ecology and human rights in several oppositional groups from the 1970s. He lost his university job in 1980 when he protested against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. In the Peaceful Revolution, he was in 1989 a founding member of the New Forum, representing the group at the Round Table. He was elected to the first freely elected Volkskammer. After German reunification, he was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2005, and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014.