What is Egon Bahr?
{{Infobox politician | image = Egonbahr2005.jpg | name = Egon Bahr | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|3|18|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Treffurt]], [[Thuringia]], [[Germany]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|8|20|1922|3|18|df=y}} | death_place= | office = [[Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany]] | term_start = 1972 | term_end = 1974 | office2 = [[Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)|Minister for Economic Cooperation]] | term_start2 = 1974 | term_end2 = 1976 | predecessor2 = [[Erhard Eppler]] | successor2 = [[Marie Schlei]] | party = SPD | occupation = Politician, statesman, journalist }} '''Egon Karl-Heinz Bahr''' (18 March 1922 &ndash; 20 August 2015) was a [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|German SPD]] politician.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of Political Biography|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=27|url=https://www.questia.com/read/34683400/a-dictionary-of-political-biography|author=Dennis Kavanagh|accessdate=31 August 2013|chapter=Bahr, Egon|archive-date=21 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921064758/http://www.questia.com/read/34683400/a-dictionary-of-political-biography|url-status=dead|via=Questia}}</ref> During World War II Bahr was expelled from the [[Wehrmacht]] because he was partly of [[Jewish]] descent.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-42762757.html www.spiegel.de]</ref> After the war he worked as a journalist and a diplomat before entering into politics. Bahr was promoted by West German Chancellor [[Willy Brandt]] to serve as Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office from 1969 until 1972. Between 1972 and 1990 he was an MP in the [[Bundestag]] of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] and from 1972 until 1976 was also a Minister of the Federal Government. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bahr, Egon}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Members of the German Bundestag]] [[Category:German diplomats]] [[Category:German jou