Klaus Francke

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Klaus Francke's candidate poster for the 1998 Bundestag election

Klaus Francke (born July 17, 1936 in Hamburg ; † June 28, 2020 ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Francke, who was of Protestant faith, completed an apprenticeship in wholesale and foreign trade after completing secondary school and obtained his sales assistant certificate in 1958. From 1958 he worked as a commercial clerk in the mineral oil industry . Since 1971 he has been a consultant at Deutsche BP in Hamburg. Klaus Francke was the father of three children.

He was President of the German-Romanian Society for Northern Germany, Deputy Chairman of the German-Bulgarian Forum and from 1999 to 2008 also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the PR agency Industrie-Contact AG.

Francke has been the first chairman of the association Rettet die Deichstrasse eV since 1977 and of the association Förderkreis Mahnmal St. Nikolai eV in Hamburg since 2005. In Berlin he was chairman of the Invalidenfriedhof eV association

politics

Francke joined the Junge Union and the CDU in 1956 , from 1964 to 1989 he was district chairman of the CDU district association Hamburg-Wandsbek and a member of the state executive. From 1966 to 1978 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament and the parliamentary group committee. From 1966 to 1976 he was also a member of the Wandsbek district assembly . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 1998, and on November 7, 2001 he replaced Gunnar Uldall , who had been appointed Hamburg Senator for Economic Affairs, in parliament, where he remained until September 2002. From 1990 to 1998 he headed the German delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Klaus Francke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media: Klaus Francke, chairman of the St. Nikolai memorial association, died at the age of 83 on June 30, 2020, accessed on June 30, 2020
  2. Election questionnaire: Klaus Francke, if you were Federal Chancellor ... September 19, 1998, accessed on June 30, 2020 (German).
  3. http://www.ic-gruppe.com/people/klaus-francke.html
  4. Archived copy ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ The sponsorship group memorial St. Nikolai eV | St. Nikolai Memorial. Retrieved on May 21, 2020 (German).
  6. http://www.foerderverein-invalidenfriedhof.de/verein.htm