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German politician. He helped found the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) in 1945 and was elected to the Bundestag in 1949. He served as minister of defense (1956-62) and minister of finance (1966-69). Head of the CSU from 1961, he was the party's unsuccessful candidate for chancellor in 1980. As premier of Bavaria (1978-88), he pursued economic policies that made it one of Germany's most prosperous states.
Austrian composer. His father, Johann Strauss, Sr. (1804-1849), was a self-taught musician who established a musical dynasty in Vienna. A violinist, he played in a dance orchestra from 1819; when it split in two (1824), he took over the second group, for which he began to write waltzes, galops, polkas, and quadrilles, eventually publishing more than 250 works. As bandmaster of a local regiment, he also wrote marches, incl. the Radetsky-March. After he left his family (1842), Johann Jr. soon surpassed his father's popularity and productivity, becoming known as the "Waltz King." By inducing his brothers, Josef (1827-1870) and Eduard (1835-1916), to take over his conducting duties, he gained more time to compose the symphonic waltzes for which he is best known, incl. The Beautiful Blue Danube (1867) and Tales from the Vienna Woods (1868). His operettas include the popular Die Fledermaus (1874) and The Gypsy Baron (1885). Eduard's son Johann (1866-1939), a conductor and composer in Berlin, was the last of the dynasty.
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