Franz Blücher

Infobox Politician
name = Franz Blücher
birth_date = 24 March 1896
birth_place = Essen, German Empire
death_date = death date and age|1959|03|26|1896|03|24
death_place = flagicon|Germany Bad Godesberg, West Germany
office = Vice-Chancellor of Germany

term_start = 20 September 1949
term_end = 29 October 1957
predecessor = Franz Von Papen
successor = Ludwig Erhard
party = FDP

Franz Blücher (24 March 1896 – 26 March 1959) was a German politician and member of the Lower House of the German Parliament ("Bundestag").

Blücher was born on 24 March 1896 in Essen, Rhine Province, German Empire.

Blücher was a member of the Free People's Party (FVP) of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). The FVP was a splitter party of the FDP and the German Party (DP).

From 1949-1953, Blücher was Minister for Matters of the Marshall Plan and then Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development until 1957. He was also Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 1949-1957. Blücher was the first person to occupy this position since Franz von Papen occupied it in 1934.

Blücher died on 26 March 1959 in Bad Godesberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany ("Bundesrepublik Deutschland", or West Germany).

Persondata
NAME = Blücher, Franz
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = German politician
DATE OF BIRTH = 24 March 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH = Essen, German Empire
DATE OF DEATH = 26 March 1959
PLACE OF DEATH = Bad Godesberg, West Germany