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1926- . German socialist politician, chair of
the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1987.
A formerleader of the SPD in Bavaria and
mayor of Munich, he served in the Brandt and
Schmidt West German governments in the 1970s
as housing and then justice minister and
then, briefly, as mayor of West Berlin. A
centrist, compromise figure, Vogel
unsuccessfully contested the 1983 federal
election as chancellor candidate for the SPD
and in 1987 replaced Brandt as party chair.