| Hans-Dietrich Genscher was born on the 21st of March 1927 in Reideburg (Saal district), married, one child |
Stations: |
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Elementary School, High School |
| 1943 - 1945 |
Air-force Assistant, Imperial Labour Service, Military Service, American and British Captivity |
| 1946 |
Supplementary High School Graduation
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| 1946 - 1952 |
Member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Regional Association Saxony Anhalt |
| 1949 |
First degree in law in Leipzig |
| Since 1952 |
Member of the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.)
|
| 1954 |
Second degree in law in Hamburg
Attorney in Bremen |
| 1956 |
Academic Assistant to the F.D.P. faction in the Bundestag |
| 1959 - 1965 |
Leader of the F.D.P. faction in the Parliament, as well as from 1962 to 1964 Whip to the F.D.P.
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| 1965 - 1998 |
Member of the German Parliament
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| 1965 - 1969 |
Parliamentary Whip to the F.D.P.
|
| 1968 - 1974 |
Deputy leader of the F.D.P.
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| 1969 - 1974 |
Federal Minister Internal Affairs
|
| 1974 - 1985 |
Leader of the F.D.P., member of the German Executive Board
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| 1974 - 1992 |
Federal Minister International Affairs and Deputy Chancellor
|
| 18th May 1992 |
Resignation of his own choice
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| Since May 1992 |
Honorary chairman of the F.D.P.
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| 1998 |
Chairman of the board of the WMP EUROCOM AG, Berlin
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| 1999 |
Resumption of his legal profession as partner of the law society
Büsing, Müffelmann & Theye based in Berlin. Further locations of the chambers are Bremen and
Frankfurt a.M. The 32 Attorneys presently at the chambers advise their inland and foreign
clients on all legal issues with main emphasis on commercial law.
|
| 2000 |
Managing Director and Shareholder of the Hans-Dietrich Genscher Consult GmbH
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| December 2001 |
President of the German Society for Foreign Politics |
