Kiesinger, Kurt Georg

Kiesinger, Kurt Georg

▪ German statesman
born April 6, 1904, Ebingen, Germany
died March 9, 1988, Tübingen, West Germany
 conservative politician and chancellor (1966–69) of the Federal Republic of Germany whose “grand coalition” brought the Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party of Germany) (SPD) into the government for the first time since 1930.

      Kiesinger was educated at Berlin and Tübingen, after which he began to practice law. He joined the Nazi Party after Adolf Hitler (Hitler, Adolf)'s accession to power in 1933 but remained largely inactive in it and refused to join the National Socialist lawyers' guild in 1938. During World War II he served as assistant chief of the radio propaganda department in the foreign ministry. Interned by U.S. forces after the war, Kiesinger was finally cleared by Allied and German denazification courts. He joined Konrad Adenauer (Adenauer, Konrad)'s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and began his parliamentary career in the newly formed Federal Republic of Germany (1949). From 1949 to 1958 he was a member of the Bundestag (federal lower house), where he served as chairman of the foreign policy committee and defended Adenauer's pro-Western foreign policy as well as his conservative domestic course. From 1958 to 1966 he was minister-president of Baden-Württemberg and from 1962 to 1963 Bundesrat (federal upper house) president.

      Kiesinger replaced Ludwig Erhard (Erhard, Ludwig) as chancellor on December 1, 1966, after the latter had lost the support of the CDU's coalition partner in the government, the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Kiesinger was able to deflect hostile publicity about his former membership in the Nazi Party. His government, a grand coalition between the CDU and the SPD, remained in power for nearly three years, during which time the West German economy improved after it had begun to falter under Erhard. Kiesinger continued a pro-Western foreign policy but to some degree eased tensions with the Soviet bloc. His party fared well in the 1969 election, but the SPD formed a coalition with the FDP. On October 20, 1969, Kiesinger was replaced as chancellor by Willy Brandt (Brandt, Willy) of the SPD.

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