Karl-Hermann Flach

Karl-Hermann Flach (October 17, 1929 – August 25, 1973) was a German journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP).

But in 1962 he left the party organisation for the Frankfurter Rundschau, a leading newspaper then considered liberal.

[6] Flach belonged to the left wing of his party and is considered an important contributor to social liberalism.

He was one of the authors of the left liberal Freiburger Thesen, a programmatic paper the party accepted at its congress in October 1971.

[7] The stand for the turn to the left the party started in 1968 to become more independent from the conservatives and have a coalition with the social democrats (1969–1982).