Kiesinger, Kurt Georg

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

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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 Ostpolitik and policy on Germany 1955–1989 Chairman of the SPD 1964–1987	Sources/Videos Bundestag election on 28 September 1969 Bundestag debate in Bonn on the state of the nation, 14 January 1970
Sources/Documents and Objects Letter from Kurt Georg Kiesinger to Willy Brandt, 22 August 1967	Travels 1967-1974