13 August 2021(2021-08-13) (aged 94) Hattenhofen, Germany
Political party
FDP
Georg Gallus (6 July 1927 – 13 August 2021[1]) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as member of the German Bundestag.[2]
Life[]
On 10 September 1970, Gallus entered the Bundestag to replace Ralf Dahrendorf, who had resigned. He was then a member of the Bundestag until 1994. He always entered the Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list. On 16 December 1976, Gallus was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Forestry in the Federal Government headed by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Following the break-up of the social-liberal coalition, he initially resigned from office on 17 September 1982.
Following the election of Helmut Kohl as Federal Chancellor, Gallus was reappointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Forestry on 4 October 1982. Gallus then left the government on 21 January 1993 at the same time as the previous Federal Minister Ignaz Kiechle.
Literature[]
Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN978-3-11-184511-1.
Speaker: , Petra Kelly, Otto Schily until 3 April 1984; , , Antje Vollmer until 30./31. January 1985;
, , Christian Schmidt until 1 February 1986; , , until 18 July 1986); (8 September 1986)
Speaker: , , until 26 January 1988; , , until 30 January 1989, , Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin, Antje Vollmer until 15 January 1990; , (until 21 June 1990), Marianne Birthler (from 4 October 1990), Antje Vollmer