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Oct 08, 1923 Arnsdorf, Saxony, Germany 100 years old
German politician
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About Wilhelm Knabe
- Wilhelm Knabe (born 8 October 1923 in Arnsdorf, Saxony) is a noted German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant, politician and a co-founder of the Green Party in Germany.
- He served as one of three speakers (that is, chairmen) of the Greens at the federal level from November 1982 until December 1984.
- He also served as the 1.
- Speaker of the party in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Knabe was a Member of the Bundestag from 1987 until 1990.
- He was vice mayor of the city of Mülheim from 1994 to 1999. Before he became involved with Green politics, Knabe was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany from 1946 to 1966. As a Christian Democrat, Knabe fled the totalitarian communist regime of East Germany in 1959, and settled in West Germany.
- He is the father of noted historian Hubertus Knabe.
