biography
pronunciation:
[hiynuhman]
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| lived:
| (1899–1976)
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| biography:
| West German statesman and president (1969–74), born in Schwelm, W Germany. He studied at Marburg and Münster, practised as an advocate from 1926, and lectured on law at Cologne (1933–9). After the war he was a founder of the Christian Democratic Union, and was minister of the interior in Adenauer's government (1949–50), resigning over a fundamental difference over defence policy. Heinemann, a pacifist, opposed Germany's re-armament. He formed his own Neutralist Party, but later joined the Social Democratic Party, was elected to the Bundestag (1957) and was minister of justice in Kiesinger's ‘Grand Coalition’ government (1966–9). |
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