Georg Leber (7 October 1920 – 21 August 2012)[1] was a German Trades Union leader and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

[2] After serving as radio operator in the Luftwaffe (the German air force) in World War II,[3] he joined the SPD in 1947.

He kept this position and became minister for postal service and long-distance communication under the joint SPD-FDP administration.

[8] Leber quit politics in 1986, and with his wife retired to the Bavarian countryside.

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