Viola von Cramon-Taubadel

Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, often officially referred as simply Viola von Cramon (née Gehring, born Halle (Westphalia), 23 March 1970) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024 and of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, from 2009 to 2013.

[1] Viola was born in Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia, the elder daughter of restaurant owner Hartwig Gehring and his wife Margit.

She was a member of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan).

Von Cramon served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and was its rapporteur on relations with the Western Balkans.

[9] In response to an invitation by President Hashim Thaçi, Federica Mogherini appointed her to lead the EU mission to observe 2019 elections in Kosovo.