The former head of the FDP and Federal Minister of Economics, Martin Bangemann, is dead. This was announced by the head of the FDP, Christian Lindner. Bangemann was 87 years old.
Former FDP chairman Martin Bangemann is dead. The former Federal Minister of Economics and EU Commissioner for Industry died at the age of 87, as FDP leader Christian Lindner said in Berlin on Wednesday. Lindner praised Bangemann, who was head of the FDP from 1985 to 1988, as a “passionate liberal”, “fighter for the social market economy” and “great European”.
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