Bruno Heck (20 January 1917 in

Aalen Aalen () is a former Free Imperial City located in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, about east of Stuttgart and north of Ulm. It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district and is its largest town. It is also the la ...

– 16 September 1989 in

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) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Heck was born into a poor Swabian

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family.Ein konservativer Moralist
, obituary in the German newspaper ''Die Zeit'' of 22 September 1989. He studied philosophy and

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at the

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. From 1957 to 1976 Heck was a member of the German

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. Heck was Minister of Family Affairs and Youth from 1962 to 1968. After the resignation of the FDP ministers in 1966, he additionally headed the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development for a short time. Heck headed the

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from 1968 to 1989.History of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
/ref> The Bruno Heck Science Prize, awarded biannually by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, was named in his honor.Bruno Heck Science Prize
at the website of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

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