  | lawyer; state attorney at the Supreme Court of Berlin 1935-1939
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  | 1939 enters the Foreign Office
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  | 1945-1947 interned by the Allies at the end of the war
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  | 1948 Land director for the CDU in South Württemberg-Hohenzollern
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  | 1949-1969 Member of the Bundestag
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  | 1966-1969 Federal Chancellor of the “Grand Coalition”
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  | 1967-1971 Chairman of the CDU
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  | Honorary Chairman of the CDU after 1971 |