Max Frauendorfer, chief personal aide to the late Heinrich Himmler who, in turn, was Hitler’s chief of the Gestapo, today became a deputy to the Bundestag (lower house of Parliament), as a representative of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic party. He was elected by the party today to fill a seat vacated by another Christian Democratic deputy who resigned his parliamentary post.
Frauendorfer ran for Parliament in 1958, and was defeated when his Nazi past was widely publicized. He ran again in 1961 and just missed election. He was elected by the party to the vacant post today because he had the highest number of votes among the unsuccessful candidates for the seat won by the man who has resigned.
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