Karl-Hermann Flach - Wikipedia Karl-Hermann Flach From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Karl-Hermann Flach" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Karl-Hermann Flach Karl-Hermann Flach (October 17, 1929 – August 25, 1973) was a German journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). Flach was born in Königsberg. He became a member of the liberal LDP (in the Soviet zone of Germany) and worked in 1948/1949 for the LDP newspaper Norddeutsche Zeitung in Schwerin. In October 1949 he fled to West-Berlin and became a member of the FDP. In 1949-1953 he studied political science. In 1956 he started to work for the federal headquarters of the party and had important campaign jobs in 1957 and 1961. But in 1962 he left the party organisation for the Frankfurter Rundschau, a leading newspaper then considered liberal. From 1971 on he worked again for the FDP, this time as secretary-general of chairman Walter Scheel. Being elected to the Bundestag in 1972 he became vice chairman of the Bundestag party. Flach died prematurely in Frankfurt, aged 43, in 1973 after having suffered a stroke a month before. Flach belonged to the left wing of his party and is considered an important contributor to social liberalism. He was one of the authors of the left liberal Freiburger Thesen, a programmatic paper the party accepted at its congress in October 1971. They stand for the turn to the left the party started in 1968 to become more independent from the conservatives and have a coalition with the social democrats (1969-1982). He has been honoured with several prizes for his work as a journalist. Later came a foundation and a prize named after him. See also[edit] Contributions to liberal theory Authority control BNF: cb122832461 (data) GND: 118533622 ISNI: 0000 0000 8115 5303 LCCN: no92020518 NTA: 070710023 SUDOC: 031659101 VIAF: 36979816 WorldCat Identities: lccn-no92020518 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl-Hermann_Flach&oldid=969541780" Categories: 1929 births 1973 deaths Members of the Bundestag for Hesse German journalists German male journalists 20th-century German journalists People from Königsberg German social liberals German male writers Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany) Hidden categories: Articles lacking sources from February 2011 All articles lacking sources Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Deutsch فارسی Français Latina مصرى Türkçe Edit links This page was last edited on 26 July 2020, at 02:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement