16 minutes agoFormer Bundestag President Philip Jenninger dies
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Former Bundestag president, conservative Philip Jenninger, driven to resign in 1988 after a controversial speech about Germany's Nazi past, died at the age of 85, Bundestag reported today. MPs for 21 years (1969-1990) of the Christian-democrat Union (CDU), the party leading today German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Jenninger, died today”, Bundestag stressed in [...]
MPs for 21 years (1969-1990) of the Christian-democrat Union (CDU), the party leading today German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Jenninger, died today”, Bundestag stressed on the website.
President-elect of the Chamber of Deputies in 1984, he faced a brutal break from political career four years later.
On November 10, 1988, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Crystal Night, the uprising performed by the Nazis on the night of November 9th-10, 1938, he gave a speech in which he mentioned who the Nazis ' motives might have been at the time.
