Karl-Hermann Flach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Karl-Hermann Flach

German journalist and politician

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1929

Place of Birth: Königsberg

Date of Death: 25-Aug-1973

Profession: writer, politician, journalist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Karl-Hermann Flach

  • Karl-Hermann Flach (October 17, 1929 – August 25, 1973) was a German journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). Flach was born in Königsberg.
  • He became a member of the liberal LDP (in the Soviet zone of Germany) and worked in 1948/1949 for the LDP newspaper Norddeutsche Zeitung in Schwerin.
  • In October 1949 he fled to West-Berlin and became a member of the FDP.
  • In 1949-1953 he studied political science. In 1956 he started to work for the federal headquarters of the party and had important campaign jobs in 1957 and 1961.
  • But in 1962 he left the party organisation for the Frankfurter Rundschau, a leading newspaper then considered liberal.
  • From 1971 on he worked again for the FDP, this time as secretary-general of chairman Walter Scheel.
  • Being elected to the Bundestag in 1972 he became vice chairman of the Bundestag party. Flach died prematurely in Frankfurt, aged 43, in 1973 after having suffered a stroke a month before. Flach belonged to the left wing of his party and is considered an important contributor to social liberalism.
  • He was one of the authors of the left liberal Freiburger Thesen, a programmatic paper the party accepted at its congress in October 1971.
  • They stand for the turn to the left the party started in 1968 to become more independent from the conservatives and have a coalition with the social democrats (1969-1982).
  • He has been honoured with several prizes for his work as a journalist.
  • Later came a foundation and a prize named after him.

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