• February 21 — Alfred Andersch, German writer (born 1914) March 5 — Wilhelm Hoegner, German politician (born 1887) April 22 — August von Finck Sr., German...
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    Franz Josef Strauss (category German Army officers of World War II)
    Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) from 1961 until 1988, member of the federal cabinet in different positions between 1953 and 1969 and minister-president of...
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    (SPD), who have dominated the city of Munich until 2020. Hitherto, Wilhelm Hoegner has been the only SPD candidate to ever become Minister-President; notable...
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  • Fritz Schäffer (CSU) 1945 - 1946: Wilhelm Hoegner (SPD) 1946 - 1954: Hans Ehard (CSU) 1954 - 1957: Wilhelm Hoegner (SPD) 1957 - 1960: Hanns Seidel (CSU) 1960...
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    the holocaust squarely. Bismarck himself had whispered the truth to the cabinet chief of Count Ciano: the Jews were not being transferred to the east to...
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    the twelve Ministers-President of Bavaria since 1945, with only Wilhelm Hoegner (1945–1946, 1954–1957) of the SPD also holding the office. Conservatism...
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    "Bundeskanzlerin und Bundeskabinett vereidigt" [Federal Chancellor and cabinet sworn in] (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. Schlee, Maxime (14 March 2018)...
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    Theodor Oberländer (category Abwehr personnel of World War II)
    Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War in the Second and Third Cabinets of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from 1953 to 1960, and as a Member of the...
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    Walter Scheel (category Luftwaffe personnel of World War II)
    play prize to Alfred Behrens on 8 May 1974. On 14 May, he chaired the cabinet meeting once. Hans Dietrich Genscher became Scheel's successor as party...
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    of Transport Georg Leber in Kiesinger cabinet on 12 April 1967, he retained the post in the first Brandt cabinet until resigning on 4 February 1972, after...
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    Heinrich Windelen (category German prisoners of war in World War II)
    Refugees and War Victims in the Cabinet Kiesinger in 1969 and as Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations in the Cabinet Kohl II from 1983 to 1987. Windelen...
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    of the Adenauer cabinet". Other Christian Democrats made it clear to Adenauer that they would like to see Oberländer out of the cabinet, and finally in...
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  • leader (for example appointing and dismissing cabinet members or defining the political guidelines of the cabinet) and typical powers and functions of a head...
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    foreign minister and as the vice chancellor in Kurt Georg Kiesinger's cabinet, and became chancellor in 1969. As chancellor, he maintained West Germany's...
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  • Willi Ankermüller (category German Army personnel of World War II)
    regional election in 1950, a new Interior Minister took office: Wilhelm Hoegner who was known as the father of the new Bavarian constitution. In his parliamentary...
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    Gerhard Stoltenberg (category Kriegsmarine personnel of World War II)
    politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He served as Minister-President...
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    Helmut Schmidt (category Luftwaffe personnel of World War II)
    1982, the coalition broke apart, with the four FDP ministers leaving his cabinet. Schmidt continued to lead a minority government composed only of SPD members...
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    coalition under Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger took office, he left the cabinet, having served as a federal minister for seventeen years, a record beaten...
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    life. He established contact with the Bavarian Social Democrat Wilhelm Hoegner and the former Reich Chancellor Joseph Wirth. Together they drew up plans...
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    Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski (category German Army officers of World War II)
    appointed Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation in the grand coalition cabinet of Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. He resigned from office on 2 October...
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    served in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Helmut Schmidt. In 1975, Rohde became a member of the SPD's executive committee. Rohde's cabinet post ended on...
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    Adenauer, chancellor of Germany, attempted to remove Schäffer from his cabinet as his tight fiscal policies were felt as a hindrance to Germany's economic...
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    Rainer Barzel (category German World War II pilots)
    (1964–1973), as Minister of Intra-German Relations (1982–1983) in Helmut Kohl's cabinet, and as President of the Bundestag (1983–1984). The 1972 election is commonly...
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    Rhine-Westphalia, of which he was the Minister of Reconstruction in the cabinet of Karl Arnold. In 1950, Steinhoff became the Vice Chairman of the SPD...
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    Werner Dollinger (category German Army personnel of World War II)
    after Minister Walter Scheel and his FDP cabinet colleagues had resigned. In the succeeding grand coalition cabinet of Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Dollinger...
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    Hermann Höcherl (category German Army officers of World War II)
    Upon the 1961 federal election, he became Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and retained this office, when Adenauer was...
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    Richard Stücklen (category German military personnel of World War II)
    Konrad Adenauer's cabinet on 29 October 1957. He was the youngest German Federal minister at that time. He kept his post in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard...
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    Thomas Dehler (category German Army personnel of World War II)
    the Christian Social Union – combined to elect Social Democrat Wilhelm Hoegner as prime minister. A major issue for Dehler was the replacing Bavaria's...
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    Heinemann became Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, but then left the cabinet, and later the CDU, together with several other party members who disagreed...
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