Bruno Heck was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union

Christian Democratic Union (Germany)

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 (CDU).

Heck was born into a poor Swabia

Swabia

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n catholic

Catholic

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 family. He studied philosophy

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 and theology

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 at the University of Tübingen. From 1957 to 1976 Heck was a member of the German Bundestag

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.

Heck was Minister of Family Affairs and Youth from 1962 to 1968. After the resignation of the FDP

Free Democratic Party (Germany)

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 ministers in 1966, he additionally headed the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development

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 for a short time.

Heck headed the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

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from 1968 to 1989. The Bruno Heck Science Prize, awarded biannually by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, was named in his honor.