Kurt Georg Kiesinger , born on April 6th, 1904 and dead on March 9th, 1988, was a West German politician member of the Union Christian Democrat (CDU). It was federal chancellor of 1966 to 1969, with the head of a great coalition of the Christian-Democrats and social democrats.

Biography

After studies of right crowned in 1934 by a doctorate, Kiesinger becomes in 1933 member of the Nazi party and works with the office of the Foreign affairs under Joachim von Ribbentrop. With the defeat of the Third Reich, he is imprisoned in a camp of internment of 1945 with 1946 before being cleared in 1948.

Member of CDU since 1947, he becomes member of the Bundestag to his creation in 1949. Of 1949 with 1966, it fulfills various functions like deputy, European deputy, president of the Bade-Wurtemberg then president of the Bundestag.

In 1966, at the time of the governmental crisis according to the resignation of Ludwig Erhard, it is essential finally like the third chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Chief of a government supported by a coalition between the two great right parties and of left, CDU and the SPD, it must compose with ministers like Willy Brandt and Franz-Josef Strauß. In spite of these difficulties this coalition lasts until the elections of 1969 and votes several important reforms of which that of the mode of election of the Bundestag.

After these elections and in spite of a victory of the CDU which forms the parliamentary group most important, Willy Brandt succeeds Kiesinger thanks to the support of FDP, a coalition that this last regards until its death as undemocratic.

He was publicly slapped by Beate Klarsfeld at the time of a congress of CDU to the cries of “Kiesinger, Nazi, resigns”.

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