 Complete the following phrase:  Neubert was born into the family of a Protestant minister in 1940 in Herschdorf, a hillside village near Erfurt in central southern Germany. He grew up in nearby . Between 1958 and 1963 he studied Theology at Jena. After 1964 he worked at initially as a vicar and later as the minister in charge for the parish. From 1973 he was combining his parish duties with work as a at nearby Weimar. In 1976, probably on the advice of Robert Havemann, he joined the CDU, in western Germany a political party of the moderate right, but in the politically and by this time physically 