Bruno Heck | |
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Minister of Family Affairs and Youth | |
In office 13 December 1962 – 1 October 1968 | |
Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer Ludwig Erhard Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Preceded by | Franz-Josef Wuermeling |
Succeeded by | Aenne Brauksiepe |
Minister of Housing and Urban Development | |
In office 8 November 1966 – 1 December 1966 | |
Chancellor | Ludwig Erhard |
Preceded by | Ewald Bucher |
Succeeded by | Lauritz Lauritzen |
Personal details | |
Born | Aalen, Germany | 20 January 1917
Died | 16 September 1989 Blaubeuren, West Germany | (aged 72)
Political party | CDU |
Bruno Heck (20 January 1917 – 16 September 1989) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Heck was born into a poor Swabian catholic family.[1] He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Tübingen. From 1957 to 1976 Heck was a member of the German Bundestag.
Heck was Minister of Family Affairs and Youth from 1962 to 1968.[2] After the resignation of the FDP ministers in 1966, he additionally headed the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development for a short time.
Heck headed the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 1968 to 1989.[3] The Bruno Heck Science Prize, awarded biannually by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, was named in his honor.[4]