Wilhelm Haferkamp

Wilhelm Haferkamp (1 July 1923 – 17 January 1995) was a longtime member of the European Commission. Born in Germany, he was a social democratic politician. He was appointed to the commission by the West German government in 1967. He served in a number of posts including Vice President until 1985. He died in Brussels.

Wilhelm Haferkamp (right) with President François-Xavier Ortoli

In the Rey Commission from 1967 he served as Commissioner for Energy. His portfolio then expanded to include the Internal Market in 1970 under the Malfatti Commission and Mansholt Commission until 1973 when he joined the Ortoli Commission as Commissioner for Economic, Finance, Credit and Investments. His last post was Commissioner for External Relations, which he served as until 1985 under the Jenkins and Thorn Commissions.

European Commissioners for External Relations
Rey Martino Deniau Soames Haferkamp De Clercq Andriessen van den Broek Brittan Patten Ferrero-Waldner
Merged into High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

European Commissioners from Germany
Walter Hallstein Hans von der Groeben Fritz Hellwig Wilhelm Haferkamp Ralf Dahrendorf Guido Brunner Karl-Heinz Narjes Alois Pfeiffer Peter Schmidhuber Martin Bangemann Monika Wulf-Mathies Michaele Schreyer Günter Verheugen Günther Oettinger Ursula von der Leyen

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