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Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff, known as Otto Graf Lambsdorff, (20 December 1926 – 5 December 2009) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party. == Biography == Lambsdorff was born in Aachen (Rhineland) to Herbert Graf Lambsdorff and Eva, née von Schmidt. He attended school in Berlin and Brandenburg an der Havel and became an officer cadet in the Wehrmacht in 1944. In April 1945 he was severely wounded in an Allied strafe attack and lost his lower left leg. Lambsdorff was a prisoner of war until 1946. After World War II he passed his Abitur and studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne where he obtained a PhD. In 1951 he became a member of the liberal FDP, and from 1972 to 1998 he represented this party in the Federal Diet, the ''Bundestag''. He was also chairman of the FDP from 1988 until 1993.〔(Obituary in ''Die Welt'' ) 〕〔(Official Biography ) 〕 Within and outside his party he was known as a representative of the market liberals; a mocking name was ''der Marktgraf'' ("the market count", a play on ''Markgraf'', "margrave"). From 1977 until 1982, and again from 1982 until 1984, Graf Lambsdorff was the West German Federal Minister of Economics, when he was forced to resign over the Flick Affair. On 16 February 1987, he was convicted by the Bonn State Court of tax evasion. In 1999 Lambsdorff was appointed as the federal envoy to the negotiations for the compensation of the victims of forced labor in Germany during World War II by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, which led to the establishment of the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future".〔(Spiegel ) 〕 He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Centre Against Expulsions〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.z-g-v.de/english/aktuelles/?id=37 )〕 and a jury member of the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award. He was honorary president of Liberal International. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Otto Graf Lambsdorff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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