Heribert Blens

Heribert Blens (19 February 1936, Cologne, West Germany) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Life
Blens became a member of the CDU as early as 1955, and from 1969 to 1987 he was a member of the Cologne City Council. He was also one of the mayors of Cologne from 1975 to 1987. Blens has a doctorate in law. After working at the administrative courts in Cologne and Düsseldorf, he was a member of the German Bundestag from 1983 to 2002.