Klaus Kinkel

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name = Dr. Klaus Kinkel


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office = Member of Parliament
term_start = 1994
term_end = 2002
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majority = Heinz Lanfermann
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Dr. Klaus Kinkel (born December 17, 1936) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). From 1992 to 1998, he was foreign minister and vice chancellor (from 1993) of Germany.

He was born in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, into a Catholic family. He took his Abitur at the Staatliches Gymnasium Hechingen and studied law at the universities of Tübingen, Bonn and Cologne. He became a member of A.V. Guestfalia Tübingen, a Catholic student fraternity that is member of the Cartellverband. Kinkel took his first juristic state exam at Tübingen, the second in Stuttgart and was eventually promoted dr. jur.

He then worked at the Federal Ministry for the Interior as a personal referent for the Federal Minister and leader of the Minister bureau. From 1974 to 1979 he worked in the Foreign Ministry, and from 1979 to 1982 he was president of the Federal Intelligence Service. Then he was appointed state secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice.

He became a member of FDP in 1991, and was a member of parliament from 1994 to 2002. He was Federal Minister of Justice from January 18, 1991 to May 18, 1992, and was then Minister of Foreign Affairs to October 26, 1998. From January 21, 1993, he was also Vice Chancellor of Germany.

From 1993 to 1995 he was chairman of the FDP.

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