Long-time CDU member of the state parliament Michael Billen is dead
Created: 01/04/2022, 10:23 AM
Michael Billen at the CDU New Years Reception of the CDU District Association Bitburg-Prüm 2020. © Harald Tittel / dpa / Archive
The former CDU member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament Michael Billen has died after a long and serious illness.
The party and parliamentary group confirmed this on Tuesday in Mainz.
The Eifel CDU politician and trained agricultural master was 66 years old.
Billen left parliament at his own request in May 2020.
He had been a member of the state parliament for 24 years.
Mainz - Billen was one of the most prominent and well-known CDU politicians in the country.
Most recently he was a district councilor in the Eifel district.
He leaves behind a wife, four children and numerous grandchildren.
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