SPD politician
Hamburg’s ex-mayor Klose died
Hans-Ulrich Klose in February 2013 at the state party conference of the Hamburg SPD. photo
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The social democrat Hans-Ulrich Klose died at the age of 86.
Hamburg’s former mayor Hans-Ulrich Klose is dead. The SPD politician died on Wednesday at the age of 86, as his wife Anne Steinbeck-Klose told the German Press Agency on Thursday.
Klose was head of government in Hamburg from 1974 to 1981 and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag from 1991 to 1994. More soon