Erhard Eppler
German politician (1926–2019)
Biography
Erhard Eppler (9 December 1926 – 19 October 2019) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and founder of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). He studied English, German and history in Frankfurt, Bern and Tübingen, achieved a PhD and worked as a teacher. He met Gustav Heinemann in the late 1940s, who became a role model. Eppler was a member of the Bundestag from 1961 to 1976. He was appointed Minister for Economic Cooperation first in 1968 during the grand coalition of Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU) and Willy Brandt (SPD), continuing under Chancellor Brandt in 1969 and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD) in 1974, when he stepped down.
An early thinker on environmental sustainability and peace movements, Eppler was involved in various controversies within his party. He was president of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag (German Protestant Church Assembly) from 1981 to 1983 and again from 1989 to 1991.
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development
- member of the German Bundestag
- member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
- President of the DEKT
Awards & honours (4)
- Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
- Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- honorary doctor of the University of Augsburg
- Brenz-Medaille in Silber
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