Helmut Link

Helmut Link (6 February 1927 – 26 February 2009) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.^[1]

Helmut Link
Helmut Link on a candidate poster for the 1983 federal elections
Member of the Bundestag
In office 20 October 1969 – 20 December 1990
Personal details
Born	(1927-02-06)6 February 1927
Died	26 February 2009(2009-02-26) (aged 82)
Nationality	German
Political party	CDU

Life

Link joined the CDU in 1957 and was a member of the Frankfurt city council for the CDU from 1960 to 1969. In the 1969 federal elections Link was elected to the German Bundestag via the Hessian state list of the CDU. Link remained a member of the German Bundestag until 1990 and was initially always elected via the Hessian state list. In 1983 and 1987 he was elected directly in the Bundestag election district Frankfurt am Main III.

Literature

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.