Walter Scheel
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President of West Germany
Why Is Walter Scheel Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Scheel was a German statesman. A member of the Nazi Party that joined the Free Democratic Party of Germany in 1946, he first served in government as the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development from 1961 to 1966 and later as President of Germany from 1974 to 1979. He led the FDP from 1968 to 1974.