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Werner Dollinger
Werner Dollinger (10 October 1918 – 3 January 2008) was a German politician and economist, a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He served as Federal Minister for the Treasury from 1962 to 1966, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation in 1966, Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications from 1966 to 1969, and as Federal Minister of Transport from 1982 to 1987.
Life.
Born in Neustadt an der Aisch in Middle Franconia, Dollinger studied economics and social sciences in Nuremberg,
Minister Werner Dollinger, in agreement with the Minister of Finance, responded to a request of the then Deutsche Bundesbahn and approved funding to build the line as part of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1985 under section 14.3c of the Bundesbahn Act ("Bundesbahngesetz"). The costs were then estimated at about DM 2.3 billion; the construction would commence in 1987, although the planning approval process had not yet started. When completed, the travel time between Hamburg and Basel would be reduced by two hours to five and a half