Kai-Uwe von Von HASSEL

Background

Hassel was born in Gare, German East Africa (now in Lushoto, Tanga Region, Tanzania), where his father Theodor von Hassel (1868–1935) had served as a Schutztruppe officer

Education

Real Gymnasium, Flensburgh. Farming and trade in Tanganyika.

Career

He served as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1954 to 1963, as Federal Minister of Defence from 1963 to 1966, and as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims from 1966 to 1969. From 1969 to 1972 he was the 4th President of the Bundestag. After the First World War, the Hassel family was banished from Tanganyika by the British mandate administration and settled in Glücksburg, Schleswig-Holstein.

Hassel took his Abitur school-leaving exam in 1933, trained as an agribusiness merchant, and returned to the Tanganyika Territory in 1935.

At the beginning of the Second World War he was interned in Dar es Salaam by the British authorities and was again banished to Germany. After the war, Hassel joined the newly established Christian Democrat party in the Flensburg district and from 1947 served as mayor of Glücksburg.

On 11 October 1954 Hassel assumed the office of a Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein. From 1955-1956, he was President of the German Bundesrat.

He was closely associated with Ludwig Erhard"s two Chancellorships, serving as Minister of Defense from 16 October 1963 to 1 December 1966.

He then served in Kurt Georg Kiesinger"s Chancellorship from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969 as "Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims". Following his service in the government, Hassel was president of the Bundestag from 5 February 1969 to 13 December 1972, having been elected when the previous president, Eugen Gerstenmaier, resigned during a financial scandal. He died aged 84, when he suffered a heart attack during the Charlemagne Award ceremony in the Aachen city hall in 1997.

Achievements

• Kai-Uwe von Hassel has been listed as a noteworthy government official by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Of County Council 1948-1954. Of Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag 1950-1965. Of Bundestag 1965-1980.

European Parliament.

1979-1984. Board of directors Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, Bonn since 1962. Board of directors Doctorate.E.G.: German Finance Company for Investment in Developing Countries since 1983.

Connections

Married Elfriede Frolich (deceased). Married Monika Weichert, June 30, 1972. Children– Joachim (deceased), Barbara Weisse.

Father:

Theodor Hassel

Mother:

Emma (Jebsen) Hassel

Spouse:

Elfriede Frolich

Spouse:

Monika Weichert

child:

Joachim Hassel (deceased)

child:

Barbara Weisse Hassel