Uwe Barschel

Uwe Barschel (13 May 1944 in Glienicke, Province of Brandenburg - 11 October 1987 in Geneva) was a West German politician (CDU) and from 1982 to 1987 he was Minister-President in the State of Schleswig-Holstein. The circumstances of his death are still not entirely clear, and inquiries have not been able to prove or disprove theories of suicide or murder.

Barschel grew up in Börnsen near Hamburg, raised by his grandparents. In 1971, Barschel was licensed to work as a lawyer. In addition to his political activity, Barschel had works published about public law and political science.

Barschel joined the Junge Union in 1960. Two years later he became a member of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany) (CDU). In Schleswig-Holstein, Barschel was chairman of the Junge Union from 1967 to 1971 and deputy chairman of the CDU in 1969.

Barschel was a member of the Landtag in Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 until his death. In 1979, he was appointed Minister of Finance by then minister-president Gerhard Stoltenberg. In the same year he took over the Ministry of the Interior and he became one of the delegates from Schleswig-Holstein in the Bundesrat.

After Stoltenberg had been appointed Federal Finance Minister by new chancellor Helmut Kohl, Barschel was elected the new minister-president in October 1982. Aged only 38, he was the youngest minister-president in history of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).

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