Hans Leussink (2 February 1912 in

Schüttorf Schüttorf ( Northern Low Saxon: ''Schüttrup'') is a town in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in southwesternmost Lower Saxony near the Dutch border and the boundary with Westphalia ( North Rhine-Westphalia). The town of Schüttorf forms with ...

– 16 February 2008 in

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) was a German teacher and politician. He served as the country's Minister for Education and Research from October 1969 to March 1972 in Cabinet Brandt I under Chancellor

Willy Brandt Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Ge ...

. His descendants live in Canada and the Netherlands. He was the oldest former minister of all time in Germany until his death on 16 February 2008. In 1994 Leussink was elected as Foreign Honorary Member of the

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.American Academy of Arts and Sciences
''Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 1780–2011''
p. 361 (PDF).

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