philipp Missfelder ✝
German politician
Philipp Mißfelder was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and had been called an up-and-comer in European and international politics. He served as the leader of the largest German youth organization, the Junge Union (JU), of which he had been a member since 1993.
Mißfelder was elected to the Bundestag in 2005 and re-elected in 2009. He served as a center-right member of the Executive Board of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and the foreign policy representative for the largest group of Ministers. Mißfelder focused on policy issues including health care, social security and fiscal responsibility, the economy and the environment, the Middle East, European security and the expansion of the German military as well as its foreign affairs.
Mißfelder died unexpectedly on 13 July 2015 of a pulmonary embolism. The Philipp-Mißfelder Forest in the Negev desert, Israel, was named in his honor.
Mißfelder was hosted by The Common Good in 2011 for a Meet & Greet.
