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    Franz Josef Strauss (German: Strauß [fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈʃtʁaʊs]; 6 September 1915 – 3 October 1988) was a German politician. He was the long-time chairman...
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    Munich Airport (German: Flughafen München „Franz Josef Strauß“) (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. To...
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    Franz Josef Strauss (26 February 1822 – 31 May 1905) was a German musician. He was a composer, a virtuoso horn player and accomplished performer on the...
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    Josef Strauss (20 August 1827 – 22 July 1870) was an Austrian composer. He was born in Mariahilf (now Vienna), the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna...
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    Hauser told Senate investigators that West German Minister of Defence Franz Josef Strauss and his party had received at least $10 million for the purchase...
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    Fabio Strauss (born 1994), Austrian footballer Ferdinand Strauss, The founder of the mechanical toy industry in America Franz Josef Strauss (or Strauß, 1915–1988)...
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    times.' The last chapter written maybe in Siberia or elsewhere. — Franz Josef Strauß It turned out that most local CSU leaders and also conservative CDU...
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    best known. Strauss was the son of Johann Strauss I and his first wife Maria Anna Streim. Two younger brothers, Josef and Eduard Strauss, also became...
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    Ude, Kurt Eisner, Franz-Josef Strauß, Roman Herzog, Leonard John Rose, Henry Kissinger Football players: Max Morlock, Karl Mai, Franz Beckenbauer, Sepp...
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    political level due to the strong influence of Bavarian politician Franz Josef Strauss from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Munich Airport, which commenced...
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    2018, the CSU had the absolute majority in the Bavarian Landtag. Franz Josef Strauß (1915–1988) had left behind the strongest legacy as a leader of the...
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  • Reichenstein (1740–1825), Hungarian mineralogist Franz Josef Strauß (1915–1988), German politician Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806-1871)...
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    Schutzstaffel and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany Franz Josef Strauß (1915–1988), politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (1978–1988)...
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  • agent Jean Violet under the name Cercle Pinay. Konrad Adenauer and Franz Josef Strauss were co-founders and reconciliation between France and Germany was...
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  • around minister of defense Franz Josef Strauss, which, together with the Starfighter scandal and the Spiegel scandal, led to Strauss' dismissal as defense...
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    to play second fiddle, when CSU leader Franz Josef Strauss became the CDU/CSU's candidate for chancellor. Strauß was also unable to defeat the coalition...
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    formed Bundeswehr and was close to the German defense minister, Franz Josef Strauss. Schnez served from 1968 to 1971 with the rank of lieutenant-general...
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  • between Franz Josef Strauss, federal minister of defense, and Rudolf Augstein, owner and editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel. The affair cost Strauss his office...
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    by Minister President Franz Josef Strauss and was formed by the Christian Social Union. It was replaced by the Cabinet Strauss III. Bayerischer Ministerpräsident...
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    Kammhuber and his superior, the West German Minister of Defence, Franz-Josef Strauß, relieved Oberstleutnant Siegfried Barth, commander of the pilots'...
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    notable and serious such incident was in 1976, when the CSU under Franz Josef Strauß ended the alliance with the CDU at a party conference in Wildbad Kreuth...
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    explanations, among them Springer's future rival in publishing Franz Burda, Franz Josef Strauss who was to lead Bavaria's ruling Christian Social Union, and...
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    old town. Due to its proximity and easy access to Munich and the Franz Josef Strauss International Airport, Landshut became a powerful and future-oriented...
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    elected Chancellor, CSU leader Franz Josef Strauß. It was the first time that their candidate was from the CSU. Strauß, immensely popular in Bavaria,...
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  • pushy, wealthy teenage girls at the fictitious Franz Josef Strauss-Gymnasium in Munich. (Several of Strauss' descendants have protested the use of his name...
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    Johann Strauss was born in Leopoldstadt (now in Vienna). Strauss's parents, Franz Borgias Strauss (10 October 1764 – 5 April 1816) and Barbara Dollmann (3...
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    in 1962 caused the coalition to fall apart over Defence Minister Franz Josef Strauss' actions which violated press freedom, leading to all FDP ministers...
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    for election as Chancellor, but he lost out to fellow conservative Franz-Josef Strauß. Albrecht did not contest the 1990 state elections. Instead, then-President...
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    background. When the Ministry of Defence, under its new secretary Franz Josef Strauss, learned from the 1958 evaluation on the proving grounds about multiple...
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    Wiener Blut (operetta) (category Operas by Johann Strauss II)
    Sources Mailer, Franz, Josef Strauss, Genius Against His Will, Pergamon Press, 1985 Based on original text by Peter Kemp, The Johann Strauss Society of Great...
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