Hans Filbinger

Hans Karl Filbinger was a conservative German politician and a leading member of the centreright Christian Democratic Union in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the first chairman of the CDU BadenWrttemberg and vice chairman of the federal CDU. He was Minister President of BadenWrttemberg from 1966 to 1978 and as such also chaired the Bundesrat in 197374. He had to resign as minister president and party chairman after allegations about his role as a navy lawyer and judge in the Second World War. While the CDU BadenWrttemberg elected him honorary chairmana position he held until his death, he remained a controversial figure. He also founded the conservative think tank Studienzentrum Weikersheim, which he chaired until 1997.

Filbinger was born onSeptember 1913 in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden. He studied law and economics at the University of Freiburg, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and in Paris. Having earned his doctorate in 1939 with the dissertation Limits to majority rule in stock and corporation law, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Freiburg. In 1940 he passed his final examination.

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