Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski
| Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski | |
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Wischnewski speaking at a SPD party convention, 1988
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| Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation | |
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In office 1 December 1966 – 2 October 1968 |
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| Chancellor | Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
| Preceded by | Werner Dollinger |
| Succeeded by | Erhard Eppler |
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| Born |
24 July 1922 Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany |
| Died | 24 February 2005 (aged 82) Cologne, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski (24 July 1922 – 24 February 2005) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Born in Allenstein, East Prussia (now Olsztyn, Poland), Wischnewski obtained his Abitur degree in Berlin in 1941. He then served in a Panzergrenadier division of the Wehrmacht armed forces during World War II, achieving the rank of Oberleutnant, and was decorated with the Iron Cross.
After the war, Wischnewski joined the SPD. He was employed by a metal-working company and from 1952 trained as an IG Metall union secretary. Upon the 1957 federal election, he became a member of the Bundestag parliament and also a SPD board member in the Cologne district. He was elected federal chairman of the party's Young Socialists youth organisation in 1959 and joined the SPD federal committee in 1970, from 1979 as deputy chairman. From 1961 to 1965 he also was an elected member of the European Parliament.
On 1 December 1966, Wischnewski was appointed Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation in the grand coalition cabinet of Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. He resigned from office on 2 October 1968, to become SPD federal executive director.
Again in May 1974, he again joined the federal government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as a state secretary in the Foreign Office, after the 1976 federal election as a state minister in the German Chancellery.
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