Erhard Eppler

Erhard Eppler was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party and founder of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit. He studied English, German and history in Frankfurt, Bern and Tübingen, achieved a PhD and worked as a teacher. He met Gustav Heinemann in the late 1940s, who became a role model. Eppler was a member of the Bundestag from 1961 to 1976.