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Born September 6, 1915 • Munich • Germany
Died October 3, 1988 (aged 73) • Regensburg
Title / Office Bundestag (1949-1962), West Germany
Founder Christian Social Union
Political Affiliation Christian Social Union
Role In Spiegel affair

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Maximilian I
king of Bavaria
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Helmut Schmidt
chancellor of West Germany
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Albrecht Theodor Emil, count von Roon
Prussian minister of war
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Chlodwig Karl Viktor, prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
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Maximilian II
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Louis I, detail from an oil painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach; in the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Louis I
king of Bavaria
Maximilian II Emanuel, engraving by Karl Gustav Amling, 1682
Maximilian II Emanuel
elector of Bavaria
Speer, Albert
Albert Speer
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