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Walter Scheel

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Walter Scheel

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President of West Germany (1974-1979)

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Walter Scheel was a German politician and military personnel who served as the president of Germany, Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Member of the European Parliament. A member of the Free Democratic Party and the Nazi Party, he was also affiliated with the German Academy for Language and Literature. His professional roles included positions as a general manager and business consultant. Scheel was born in Solingen in 1919 and died in Bad Krozingen in 2016.

During World War II, he served as a senior lieutenant in the Luftwaffe. His career locations included Düsseldorf, Bonn, Strasbourg, and Brussels. Scheel received several awards, including the Charlemagne Prize, the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Orden wider den tierischen Ernst, and the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He was married to Mildred Scheel and was a member of the Protestant Church in Germany.

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Person · Open Library

Works
24

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1919
Active to
2016
politician
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
926
Total plays
3,459

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

    · 1983 · cited 31,554x

  2. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,798x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,989x

  4. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    · 2011 · cited 13,464x

  5. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

    · 1943 · cited 13,228x

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Encyclopedic overview

Personal details BornWalter Scheel (1919-07-08)8 July 1919 Höhscheid, Rhine Province, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Died24 August 2016(2016-08-24) (aged 97) Bad Krozingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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