biography
| name: |
Kiesinger, Kurt Georg
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pronunciation:
[keesinger]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–88)
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| biography:
| German statesman and chancellor (1966–9), born in Ebingen, SW Germany. He studied at Berlin and Tübingen, practised as a lawyer (1935–40), and served during World War 2 at the Foreign Office on radio propaganda. Interned after the war until 1947, he was exonerated of Nazi crimes. In 1949 he became a Conservative member of the Bundestag, and succeeded Erhard as chancellor. Long a convinced supporter of Adenauer's plans for European unity, he formed with Brandt a government combining the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats, until in 1969 he was succeeded as chancellor by Brandt. |
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