Hans-Christian Ströbele

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Hans-Christian Ströbele (7 June 1939 – 29 August 2022) was a German politician and lawyer.

Ströbele made his school exam abitur in Marl (Westphalia). Then he studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin (at the Free University of Berlin. He wss a lawyer in Berlin (until 1990 West Berlin) from 1969. He was involved in the student revolt of 1968.[source?] He was one of the lawyers of the Rote Armee Fraktion terrorists in the Stammheim trial.

From 1970 to 1974 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Later he was one of the founders of the "Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection," which later became the Berlin section of the Green Party of Germany.

He died on 29 August 2022 in Berlin, Germany from a long-illness at the age of 83.[1]

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  1. "Mit 83 Jahren: Grünen-Politiker Hans-Christian Ströbele gestorben" [Green politician Hans-Christian Ströbele died]. FAZ.NET (in German). 31 August 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.