  | 1960-66 director of the Press and Information bureau of the Land Berlin
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  | 1967-69 Ministerial director in the Foreign Office
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  | 1972 Federal plenipotentiary for Berlin and Federal Minister for Special Issues
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  | 1974-76 Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation
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  | 1972-90 SPD delegate in the German Bundestag
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  | 1977-81 Managing director of the SPD
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