Klaus Francke

Klaus Francke (17 July 1936 – 28 June 2020 ) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Life
Francke joined the Junge Union and the CDU in 1956, and from 1964 to 1989 he was district chairman of the Hamburg-Wandsbek CDU district association and a member of the state executive board. From 1966 to 1978 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 1998, and on 7 November 2001 he again succeeded Gunnar Uldall in Parliament until 2002.