Hassel. 49. an energetic and strongwilled man. has repeatedly demonstrated great administrative and political ability since he Joined Adenauers Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1946. He was born in German East Africa. the son of a German planter in what is now Tanganyika. During World War I his family was expelled. In 1935 Hassel returned to Africa and worked himself up to director of several plantations. In the spring of 1940 he was deported again to Germany and became a lieutenant in the German Army. He was captured by the British In Italy in 1945. After the war he became mayor of a small resort town on the Baltic Sea and a member of the state legislature of SchleswigHolstein.
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