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Alfons Goppel
Alfons Goppel (1 October 1905 – 24 December 1991) was a German politician of the CSU party and Prime Minister of Bavaria (1962–1978).
Biography.
Alfons Goppel was born in Reinhausen, near Regensburg, one of the nine children of the baker Ludwig Goppel and his wife Barbara.
He married Gertrud Wittenbrink in 1935 and they had six sons.
Goppel studied law in Munich from 1925 to 1929 and, after graduating, moved back to Regensburg, where he became a lawyer. He
he was a member of the European Parliament, as such being part of the first freely elected group of MPs in 1979. He died, aged 86, in Johannesberg, near Aschaffenburg.
One of his sons, Thomas Goppel, later served amongst others as Minister of Science, Research and the Arts (2003–2008).
The "Alfons-Goppel-Stiftung" ("Alfons Goppel Foundation"), formed in 1980 and named after him, supports needy children in third-world countries.
Honors.