biography
pronunciation:
[shoybluh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| German politician, born in Freiburg im Breisgau, SW Germany. In 1981–4 he was Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer der Christlich-Demokratische Union/Christlich Soziale Union (CDU/CSU)-Fraktion in the Bundestag. As Bundesinnenminister (1989–91) he was the architect of the unification contract (1990) with the German Democratic Republic. An assassination attempt in 1990 left him paralysed. In 1991 he became chairman of the CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion in the Bundestag. |
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