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Klaus Kinkel
(17 December 1936 – 4 March 2019) was a
German
civil servant, lawyer, and politician. He was a member of the
Free Democratic Party
(FDP).
He served as
Federal Minister of Justice
(1991?1992),
Foreign Minister
(1992?1998) and
Vice Chancellor of Germany
(1993?1998) in the government of
Helmut Kohl
.
[1]
He was also chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party from 1993 to 1995. He was President of the
Federal Intelligence Service
(1979?1982).
Kinkel was born in
Metzingen
,
Baden-Wurttemberg
. He died on 4 March 2019 in
Sankt Augustin
,
North Rhine-Westphalia
, aged 82.
[2]
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