Editing Franz Josef Strauss (section)

{{Short description|Chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) from 1961 until 1988}}
{{Distinguish|text=[[Franz Strauss]], 19th-century musician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Franz Josef Strauss
|image        = Franz Josef Strauß 1982.jpg
|image_size   =
| caption = Strauss in 1982
|office       = [[List of ministers-president of Bavaria|Minister-President of Bavaria]]
|deputy       = {{unbulleted list|Karl Hillermeier|[[Max Streibl]]}}
|term_start   = 6 November 1978
|term_end     = 3 October 1988
|predecessor  = [[Alfons Goppel]]
|successor    = [[Max Streibl]]
| office1             = [[Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria|Leader]] of the [[Christian Social Union in Bavaria|Christian Social Union]]
| 1blankname1         = {{nowrap|General Secretary}}
|1namedata1   = {{unbulleted list|[[Friedrich Zimmermann]]|Anton Jaumann|[[Max Streibl]]|Gerold Tandler|[[Edmund Stoiber]]|[[Otto Wiesheu]]}}
|term_start1  = 18 March 1961
|term_end1    = 3 October 1988
|predecessor1 = [[Hanns Seidel]]
|successor1   = [[Theo Waigel]]
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|office2      = [[Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany)|Minister of Finance]]
|chancellor2  = [[Kurt Georg Kiesinger]]
|term_start2  = 2 December 1966
|term_end2    = 22 October 1969
|predecessor2 = [[Kurt Schmücker]]
|successor2   = [[Alex Möller]]
|office3      = [[Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)|Minister of Defence]]
|chancellor3  = [[Konrad Adenauer]]
|term_start3  = 16 October 1956
|term_end3    = 16 December 1962
|predecessor3 = [[Theodor Blank]]
|successor3   = [[Kai-Uwe von Hassel]]
|office4      = [[Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)|Minister for Atomic Affairs]]
|chancellor4  = [[Konrad Adenauer]]
|term_start4  = 20 October 1955
|term_end4    = 16 October 1956
|predecessor4 = ''Position established''
|successor4   = [[Siegfried Balke]]
|office5      = [[Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany|Minister for Special Affairs]]
|chancellor5  = [[Konrad Adenauer]]
| alongside5          = [[Heinrich Krone]], [[Robert Tillmanns]], Hermann Schäfer
|term_start5  = 6 October 1953
|term_end5    = 12 October 1955	
|predecessor5 = ''Position established''
|successor5   = [[Heinrich Krone]] {{small|(1961)}}{{Collapsed infobox section end}}}}
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| office6             = Member of the<br />[[Landtag of Bavaria]] <br /> for [[Upper Bavaria]]
| term_start6         = 30 October 1978
| term_end6           = 3 October 1988
| predecessor6        = ''multi-member district''
| successor6          = Hans Koller
|office7       = [[Member of the German Bundestag|Member]] of the [[Bundestag]] <br /> for [[Weilheim (electoral district)|Weilheim]]
| term_start7        = [[1949 West German federal election|7 September 1949]]
| term_end7           = 29 November 1978
| predecessor7        = ''Constituency established''
| successor7          = Heinrich Reichold
| office8             = [[Member of the European Parliament|Member]] of the [[European Parliament]] <br /> for [[West Germany]]
| term_start8         = 1952
| term_end8           = 1956
| predecessor8        = ''multi-member district''
| successor8          = ''multi-member district''{{Collapsed infobox section end}}}}
|birth_name   = Franz Josef Strauß
|birth_date   = {{Birth date|df=yes|1915|9|6}}
|birth_place  = [[Munich]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], [[German Empire]] {{small|(now [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]])}}
|nationality  = German
|death_date   = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1988|10|3|1915|9|6}}
|death_place  = [[Regensburg]], [[Bavaria]], [[West Germany]]
| party              = [[Christian Social Union in Bavaria|Christian Social Union]] {{small|(1946–1988)}}
|relations    =
|residence    =
|alma_mater   = [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Politician|Teacher|Civil Servant}}
|spouse       = {{Marriage|Marianne Zwicknagl|1957|1984|end=died}}
|children     = 3, including [[Monika Hohlmeier|Monika]]
|signature    = StraussFranzJosefSignature02 mono 25p transp.png
|website      =
|footnotes    =
}}
'''Franz Josef Strauss''' ({{Langx|de|Strauß|link=no}} {{IPA|de|fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈʃtʁaʊs|}}; 6 September 1915 – 3 October 1988) was a German politician. He was the long-time chairman of the [[Christian Social Union in Bavaria]] (CSU) from 1961 until 1988, member of the federal cabinet in different positions between 1953 and 1969 and [[minister-president]] of the [[States of Germany|state]] of [[Bavaria]] from 1978 until 1988. Strauss is also credited as a co-founder of European aerospace conglomerate [[Airbus]].

After the [[1969 West German federal election|1969 federal elections]], West Germany's [[CDU/CSU]] alliance found itself out of power for the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic. At this time, Strauss became more identified with the regional politics of Bavaria. While he ran for the [[Chancellor of Germany (1949–present)|chancellorship]] as the candidate of the CDU/CSU in [[1980 West German federal election|1980]], for the rest of his life Strauss never again held federal office. From 1978 until his death in 1988, he was the head of the Bavarian government. His last two decades were marked by a fierce rivalry with [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]] chairman [[Helmut Kohl]].<ref name="David Wilsford 1995 pp. 432">David Wilsford, ed. ''Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe: A Biographical Dictionary'' (Greenwood, 1995) pp. 432–40.</ref>