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    Walter Scheel (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈʃeːl] ; 8 July 1919 – 24 August 2016) was a German statesman. A member of the Nazi Party who joined the Free Democratic...
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  • ichthyologist Karl Scheel (1866–1936), German physicist Mildred Scheel (1932–1985), German doctor; second wife of Walter Scheel Walter Scheel (1919–2016), German...
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    Chancellor Walter Scheel was appointed acting chancellor and served for nine days until the election of Helmut Schmidt on 16 May 1974. Scheel not taken...
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    Stern. Retrieved 8 April 2018. McFadden, Robert D. (24 August 2016). "Walter Scheel, Leading Figure in West German Thaw With the East, Dies at 97". The...
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    1974 West German presidential election (category Walter Scheel)
    FDP) nominated Vice-Chancellor Walter Scheel; the Christian Democratic Union nominated Richard von Weizsäcker. Scheel won the election by 32 votes on...
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    Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm. The new chairman elected delegates in 1968 Walter Scheel, a European-oriented liberals, although it came from the national liberal...
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    refused to sign the "Architects Act" for the same reason. In 1976, Walter Scheel vetoed a bill about simplification measures regarding the conscientious...
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  • as Chancellor, Walter Scheel was acting Chancellor for nine days. ^ Following Willy Brandt's resignation as Chancellor, Walter Scheel was acting Chancellor...
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    Democrats (SPD) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP). The Vice-Chancellor was the Free Democrat Walter Scheel (FDP). Cabinet of Germany Cabinet Brandt II...
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    ensured a corresponding precedent and appointed former vice-chancellor Walter Scheel as acting chancellor. The Basic Law does not state who shall perform...
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    Following Brandt's resignation as Chancellor on 7 May 1974, Vice-Chancellor Walter Scheel (FDP) served as Acting Chancellor for nine days, until the inception...
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    Brandt II returned to government the next day, again with FDP chairman Walter Scheel as vice-chancellor and foreign minister. Defeated Rainer Barzel resigned...
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  • Willy Brandt Walter Scheel Brandt I SPD 254 of 496 FDP Term Chancellor Vice Chancellor Cabinet Parties Seats 1972–1974 Willy Brandt Walter Scheel Brandt II...
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    of the President of the Federal Republic Walter Scheel and the founder of the German Cancer Aid. Mildred Scheel was the third child of a radiologist and...
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    Schleicher 56 days 32 8 Max von Baden 37 days 33 26 Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk 21 days 34 – Walter Scheel (acting) 9 days 35 25 Joseph Goebbels 1 day 36...
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    this position had been Hermann Müller from 1928 to 1930. FDP chairman Walter Scheel succeeded Brandt as vice-chancellor and foreign minister. Brandt's government...
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    Germany on 23 May 1979. Deeming his reelection to be unlikely, incumbent Walter Scheel elected not to seek a second term. The two candidates to replace him...
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    1973 Salvador de Madariaga 1974 1975 1976–2000 1976 Leo Tindemans 1977 Walter Scheel 1978 Konstantinos Karamanlis 1979 Emilio Colombo 1980 1981 Simone Veil...
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    1973 Salvador de Madariaga 1974 1975 1976–2000 1976 Leo Tindemans 1977 Walter Scheel 1978 Konstantinos Karamanlis 1979 Emilio Colombo 1980 1981 Simone Veil...
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    of Germany in 2017, where he endorsed the government's candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier. That same year, he led his party's successful campaign for the...
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    institution was founded on September 25, 1974, by Mildred Scheel during the term of her husband, Walter Scheel, as federal president of Germany. It became the leading...
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  • Maier – Thomas Dehler – Hans-Dietrich Genscher – Otto Graf Lambsdorff – Walter Scheel – Guido Westerwelle – Christian Lindner In the Contributions to liberal...
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    due to his Nazi past, as candidate, whereafter incumbent President Walter Scheel (FDP) chose to renounce a second term. On 23 May 1979, Carstens was...
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    Rhine-Westphalia Konrad Adenauer Ludwig Erhard Kurt Georg Kiesinger 6 Walter Scheel (1919–2016) 30 January 1968 1 October 1974 6 years, 244 days  North...
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    1973 Salvador de Madariaga 1974 1975 1976–2000 1976 Leo Tindemans 1977 Walter Scheel 1978 Konstantinos Karamanlis 1979 Emilio Colombo 1980 1981 Simone Veil...
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    Walter Hallstein (17 November 1901 – 29 March 1982) was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first president of the Commission of the...
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  • Staff); 1989–1991 Interior) Rudolf Scharping, SPD (1998–2002 Defense) Walter Scheel, FDP Karl Schiller, SPD (1966–1972 Economy and additionally 1972–1972...
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  • 1964 and 1966) Jelle Zijlstra (Netherlands, Nov 1966 – April 1967) Walter Scheel (West Germany, May 1974) Malcolm Fraser (Australia, first term only...
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    over being drawn into the Arab–Israeli conflict. As foreign minister Walter Scheel put it in October 1972, one had to "defend against actions by both sides...
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  • the Soviet Union and West Germany. It was signed by Willy Brandt and Walter Scheel for West Germany's side and by Alexei Kosygin and Andrei Gromyko for...
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