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Hans Krüger (6 July 1902 – 3 November 1971) was a West German politician of Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as Federal Minister for Expellees and Refugees of the Federal Republic of Germany from 17 October 1963 to 7 February 1964, as President of the Federation of Expellees and as a Member of Parliament from 1957 to 1965. He stepped down from cabinet amid controversy about his war-time background.
Biography
Education and work
Krüger was born in Neustettin, Province of Pomerania now Szczecinek, Poland. He completed studies devoted to political sciences and law in 1922 and afterwards worked as a judge.
Nazi activity
Krüger participated in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. At the time he was a member of the Nazi Party and other Nazi organisations such as the Reichsbund Deutscher Beamter (German Civil Service), the NS-Rechtswahrerbund (National Socialist Lawyers Association), and the Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland (Association for Germanism Abroad). He worked as a judge in Lauenburg (Lębork), Stargard (Stargard Szczeciński) and after 1940 in Chojnice (Konitz), where he was made an NSDAP-Ortsgruppenleiter in 1943 and where he passed out several death sentences. From 1943-1945 he served in the German Navy.
Post war activity
After the war Krüger became a CDU politician and co-founder of the Federation of Expellees, joining them in 1948 and serving as their first president from 1959-1964. He was also a member of the German Bundestag from 1957-1965. He became the German Minister for Expellees, Refugees, and War Claimants in 1963, but resigned from the cabinet and the chairmanship of the Federation of Expellees in 1964 amid controversy about his work during the Nazi era.
Krüger died in Bonn.
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