Heinrich Lübke
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Karl Heinrich Lübke was a German politician, who served as president of West Germany from 1959 to 1969.
Lübke in 1959
Lübke's birthplace in Enkhausen with a memorial plaque, 2008
Lübke's official Landtag portrait, 1932
Lübke (center, back) at Peenemünde in 1941
Gustav Heinemann
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Gustav Walter Heinemann was a German politician who was President of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He served as mayor of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 19
Heinrich Lübke
…hobbies in comparative linguistics and microbiology. Lübke's political friends ignored him, if they did not avoid him. His successor in the presidency, Gustav Heinemann, however, kept in contact with him. Trips to Tenerife, in autumn 1969 and at Christmas in 1970 and 1971, brought no improvement in his condition…
Heinemann in 1969
Heinemann, at the general synod of the Protestant Church in Germany, 1949
Farewell at Cologne station, 1974