Schiller, Karl

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German economist and politician (SPD)
In Berlin and Bonn Brandt‘s man for economic policy

  • 1911 born
  • 1937-1945 Member of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party)
  • Since 1946 Member of the SPD, although withdrawing in 1972 and re-joining in 1980
  • Since 1947 Professor for Economics at the University of Hamburg
  • 1961-1965 Economics senator in Berlin
  • 1964-1972 Chairman of the economic policy committee in the SPD’s executive committee
  • 1965-1972 Member of the Bundestag (SPD)
  • 1965-1966 deputy chairman of the SPD Bundestag fraction
  • 1966-1971 Federal Minister for Economics
  • 1971-1972 Federal Minister for Economics and Finance
  • 1994 died
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Governing Mayor and Candidate for Chancellor 1957-1966

Foreign Minister and Federal Chancellor in Bonn 1967-1974

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