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pronunciation:
[bah(r)shuhl]
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| German politician and lawyer, born in Glienicke, near Berlin, E Germany. From 1979 to 1982 he represented the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as minister of the interior, after which until 1987 he was premier of Schleswig-Holstein. Accused of involvement in a slander campaign against the German Social Democratic Party's Björn Engholm in regional elections that year, he was adjudged responsible by the Landtag but in 1995 was partially absolved. His death in a hotel room in Geneva took place in mysterious circumstances; a local court brought in a verdict of suicide. |
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