Heribert Blens

Heribert Blens (19 February 1936 – 26 January 2025^[1]) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.^[2]

Heribert Blens
Candidate poster of Heribert Blens for the Bundestag elections 1998
Member of the Bundestag
In office 29 March 1983 – 17 October 2002
Personal details
Born	(1936-02-19)19 February 1936 Cologne, West Germany (now Germany)
Died	26 January 2025(2025-01-26) (aged 88) Cologne, Germany
Political party	CDU

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.