Kiesinger, Kurt Georg

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German jurist and politician (CDU)
Federal chancellor when Brandt was foreign minister

1904 born
1933-1945 Member of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party)
1940-1945 Associate in the Foreign Office, last as deputy director of the Broadcasting Department
1948 Joined the CDU
1949-1958 and 1969-1980 Member of the Bundestag
1958-1966 Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg
1966-1969 Federal Chancellor
1967-1971 Federal Chairman of the CDU
1971-1988 Honorary Chairman of the CDU
1988 died

Index of References

Biography

Governing Mayor and Candidate for Chancellor 1957-1966

1966: 27 Nov, 1 Dec

Foreign Minister and Federal Chancellor in Bonn 1967-1974

1967: 31 Jan, April, 13 Oct
1968: 31 Jan, 17-21 March, 15 July, 18 Dec
1969: 17 May, 4 June, 28 Sept

Politics

Sources/Videos

Sources/Documents and Objects

Letter from Kurt Georg Kiesinger to Willy Brandt, 22 August 1967

Travels

1967-1974

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