Emanuelis Zingeris

Emanuelis Zingeris
Member of the Seimas
Assumed office
15 November 2004
ConstituencyMulti-member
In office
25 November 1996 – 17 October 2000
ConstituencyMulti-member
In office
25 November 1992 – 24 November 1996
Preceded byLiudvikas Saulius Razma
Succeeded byVytenis Andriukaitis
ConstituencyŽirmūnai
Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Assumed office
2009
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas
Assumed office
2010
President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies
Assumed office
2010
Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania
Assumed office
1998
Personal details
Born (1957-07-16) 16 July 1957 (age 67)
Kaunas, Lithuania
Political partyHomeland Union
European People's Party
SpouseVirginija Zingeris
ChildrenDovydas and Estera Zingeris

Emanuelis Zingeris (born 16 July 1957) is a Lithuanian philologist, museum director, politician, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, currently serving as a Member of the Seimas (1990–2000 and since 2004), chairman of its foreign affairs committee (since 2010), Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (since 2009) and President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies (since 2010).[1] A Lithuanian Jew, he has been director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, honorary chairman of Lithuania's Jewish community, and is Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, that proposed the establishment of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.

  1. ^ "Lietuvos Respublikos Aukðèiausiosios Tarybos AKTO Dël Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybës atstatymo signataras Emanuelis Zingeris" (in Lithuanian). Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Retrieved 2008-12-13.