Hermann Fellner (20 December 1950 – 17 May 2020) was a German

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, representative of the

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. He was a member of the

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of Germany. Fellner was in its youth chairman of the local federation of the

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Ehenfeld - Massenricht. During his studies he was active in the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten. In 1980, Fellner moved into the German Bundestag as the youngest member of parliament at the time as a direct representative of the

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constituency. He was a member of the German Bundestag until 1990. During this time, he held the office of domestic policy spokesman for the CSU state-group (Landesgruppe), among other things. When asked in 1985, in connection with the sale of the Flick Group to

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, whether compensation should be paid to forced laborers during the Nazi era, Fellner said that he saw Later, Fellner recommended that Deutsche Bank pay compensation even without a legal obligation, and explained his statements, which had been criticized as anti-Semitic and for which he apologized to the Bundestag on 16 January 1986, after initial rejection, to the effect that he did not question compensation from a moral standpoint, but there was no legal basis for it.

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1950 births 2020 deaths Members of the Bundestag for Bavaria Members of the Bundestag 1987–1990 Members of the Bundestag 1983–1987 Members of the Bundestag 1980–1983 Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria {{Germany-CSU-politician-stub

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