Lübke, Heinrich

*		1897
†		1972

Beruf
German politician

Lübke advocates the formation of the “Grand Coalition” of CDU/CSU and SPD and undertakes numerous state visits to developing countries.

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	1931-1933 delegate of the Central Party in the Prussian House of Delegates
	1940-1944 Deputy director of a construction group to build “revenge weapons” in Peenemünde
	enters the CDU in 1945
	1947-1952 Land Minister of Economics in North Rhine-Westphalia
	1949/50 and 1953-1959 Delegate of the CDU in the German Bundestag
	1953 Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture, and Forestry
	1959 elected Federal President, reelected 1964