German statesman, born in Offenbach, WC Germany. A successful lawyer, he was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Party. He went into politics in Hesse (1945), and was elected to the Federal Diet at Bonn (1949), where he played a prominent part in drafting the Constitution. He became foreign minister in 1955, but resigned in 1961.
He belonged to a family of Italian origin which settled in Hesse in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim.
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Preceded by: Konrad Adenauer |
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs 1955–1961 |
Succeeded by: Gerhard Schröder |
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