Klaus Francke

Klaus Francke (17 July 1936 – 28 June 2020^[1]) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.^[2]

Klaus Francke
Klaus Francke's candidate poster for the 1998 federal election
Member of the Bundestag
In office 1976 – 1998, 2001-2002
Personal details
Born	(1936-07-17)17 July 1936 Hamburg, Germany
Died	28 June 2020(2020-06-28) (aged 83) Hamburg, Germany
Political party	CDU

Life

Francke joined the Junge Union and the CDU in 1956, and from 1964 to 1989 he was district chairman of the Hamburg-Wandsbek CDU district association and a member of the state executive board. From 1966 to 1978 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 1998, and on 7 November 2001 he again succeeded Gunnar Uldall in Parliament until 2002.^[3]