Information AboutHans-ulrich Klose |
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| 1937 births | |
| members of the german bundestag | |
| politicians of the social democratic party of germany | |
| german natives of silesia | |
| first mayors of hamburg | |
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EARLY LIFE After the end of the World War II Klose's family left Breslau and moved to Bielefeld . In 1957 he received his high-school diploma and started studying law in Freiburg and Hamburg . In 1961 he passed the ''First'', in 1965 the ''Second Legal State Examination'', and started working as a Lawyer in Hamburg. POLITICAL CAREER After joining the ''Social Democratic Party of Germany'' (SPD) in 1964, he became member of the city parliament (''Bürgerschaft'')) in Hamburg in 1970 , where he was vice chairman of his faction. Two years later he became first chairman of the SPD faction. In October 1973 , Klose succeeded Heinz Ruhnau as minister of the interior of Hamburg. Only a year later, on November 12 , 1974 Hans-Ulrich Klose became First Mayor (''Erster Bürgermeister'') of the ''Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg'' at the age of 37. After a party internal argument about a near Nuclear Powerplant in Brokdorf , he resigned from his office on May 25 , 1981 . In 1983 Klose was elected as a member of the german parliament, the Bundestag , for the SPD. From 1987 to 1991 he was Treasurer of his party (''Bundesschatzmeister''). From 1991 to 1994 he became the leader of SPD faction in the Bundestag, and in this position also leader of the opposition. He quit this job in 1994, to make room for the SPD candidate for German Chancellor at that time, Rudolf Scharping . Instead he was elected one of the Vice Presidents of the german Bundestag the same year. PERSONAL LIFE Since 1992 Hans-Ulrich Klose is married with his third wife, a physician. He has two daughters and two sons from his first two marriages. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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