Manfred Carstens (born 23 February 1943, in Molbergen) is a German politician of

Christian Democratic Union of Germany The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (german: link=no, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands ; CDU ) is a Christian democratic and liberal conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-rig ...

(CDU).

Life

Emstek Emstek is a municipality in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km east of Cloppenburg Cloppenburg (; nds, Cloppenborg; stq, Kloppenbuurich) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of ...

Carstens worked for a local bank. Carstens worked as a German politician for party CDU. From 1972 to 2005 Carstens was a member of German

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the German Federalism, federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representat ...

. Carstens is married and has three children.German Bundestag: Biography of Carstens
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