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Franz Blücher
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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).
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