Paul Lücke

Paul Lücke (13 November 1914 – 10 August 1976) was a German

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and

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. He served as Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior from 1965–1968. Lücke was a member of the Christian Democratic Union since the party's foundation in 1945. In the 1949 election he gained a seat in the inaugural

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, which he held until 1972. Following the 1965 election, Lücke was appointed Minister of the Interior by

Ludwig Erhard Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic ...