Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union . He served as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1955 to 1961.
Brentano was born in Offenbach am Main, the son of the Centre politician Otto von Brentano, a member of the 1919 Weimar National Assembly. The Brentano family, of Italian origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of HesseDarmstadt 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. He was related to famous German poets such as Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim . The author Bernard von Brentano was his elder brother.
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