Heinrich Krone

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Heinrich Krone
Krone (left) meeting Colombian politician Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 1964
Member of the Bundestag
In office
7 September 1949 – 19 October 1969
Personal details
Born(1895-12-01)1 December 1895
Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany
Died15 August 1989(1989-08-15) (aged 93)
Bonn, Germany
Political partyCDU

Heinrich Krone (1 December 1895 – 15 August 1989) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Shortly after beginning his

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Berlin. In 1949 he served in the first post-war West German federal parliament, the Bundestag. From 1955 to 1961 he served as the chairman of the CDU faction in the Bundestag, and was a trusted colleague of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He remained in the Bundestag until 1969, serving several times as a minister under Chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard.[1]