Klaus Francke (17 July 1936 – 28 June 2020[1]) was a German politician of the
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.[2]
Life
Francke joined the
Junge Union and the CDU in 1956, and from 1964 to 1989 he was district chairman of the
Hamburg-Wandsbek CDU district association and a member of the state executive board. From 1966 to 1978 he was a member of the
Hamburg parliament. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 1998, and on 7 November 2001 he again succeeded
Gunnar Uldall in Parliament until 2002.[3]