Hans Apel

Hans Eberhard Apel (25 February 1932 – 6 September 2011) was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1972 to 1974 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Foreign Minister. From 1974 to 1978 he was the Minister of Finance and from 1978 to 1982 he was the Minister of Defence.

Hans Apel
Federal Minister of Defence
(West Germany)
In office
16 February 1978  1 October 1982
ChancellorHelmut Schmidt
Preceded byGeorg Leber
Succeeded byManfred Wörner
Federal Minister of Finance
(West Germany)
In office
16 May 1974  16 February 1978
ChancellorHelmut Schmidt
Preceded byHelmut Schmidt
Succeeded byHans Matthöfer
Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Foreign Office
(West Germany)
In office
15 December 1972  16 May 1974
ChancellorWilly Brandt
MinisterWalter Scheel
Succeeded byHans-Jürgen Wischnewski
Deputy Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag
(West Germany)
In office
28 September 1969  19 November 1972
In office
6 March 1983  5 September 1988
Member of the German Bundestag
In office
19 October 1965  20 December 1990
Personal details
Born25 February 1932
Hamburg, Germany
Died6 September 2011(2011-09-06) (aged 79)
Hamburg, Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party
(1955–until his death)
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg
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