Karl Schiller; Leftist West German Economics Minister
Karl Schiller, 83, a Social Democrat whose tenure as economics minister in the 1960s helped establish his leftist party as a responsible partner in West German politics. A professor of economics at the University of Hamburg, Schiller became economics minister in 1966. In the Social Democratic government of Willy Brandt that followed, Schiller took the additional post of finance minister in 1971, becoming known as the “super-minister” until his 1972 resignation over policy differences. In Hamburg on Monday of abdominal hemorrhaging.
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