The World - News from Oct. 10, 1988
Count Otto Lambsdorff, a former economics minister convicted last year of tax evasion, has been elected head of the Free Democrats, junior partners in West Germany’s coalition government. Lambsdorff, who resigned from the government in 1984 during a scandal over alleged illegal political contributions by the West German Flick industrial group, won the job of party chairman by a vote of 211 to 187 at the congress in Wiesbaden. He defeated challenger Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer, a high-ranking official in the West German Foreign Ministry.
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