Michael Cramer (born 16 June 1949) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019.
In 2004 Cramer was first elected to the European Parliament, and was re-elected in 2009 for the Green Party.
[1] He was part of the Parliament's delegation to the 2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland.
He is also the founder of the Iron Curtain Trail, a project to complete a long-distance cycling route following the old border of the Iron Curtain in Europe.
[3] In 2018, Cramer announced that he would not stand in the 2019 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.