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Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia (1958–1966); substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1958–1958); member of the German Bundestag (1957–1958); mayor (1952–1952)."},{"q":"Where did Franz Meyers study?","a":"Franz Meyers was educated at University of Cologne, University of Freiburg."}],"related":[{"name":"Ole von Beust","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ole-von-beust"},{"name":"Herbert Weichmann","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/herbert-weichmann"},{"name":"Henning Voscherau","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/henning-voscherau"},{"name":"Kurt Sieveking","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kurt-sieveking"},{"name":"Hans-Ulrich Klose","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hans-ulrich-klose"},{"name":"Peter Tschentscher","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/peter-tschentscher"},{"name":"Karl Arnold","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/karl-arnold"},{"name":"Fritz Steinhoff","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/fritz-steinhoff"},{"name":"Cevdet Yılmaz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/cevdet-ylmaz"},{"name":"Farkhad Akhmedov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/farkhad-akhmedov"},{"name":"Vadym Novynskyi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vadym-novynskyi"},{"name":"Petro Poroshenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/petro-poroshenko"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/franz-meyers-3f21813ba9.jpg","width":500,"height":706,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0 de","credit":"CDU","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KAS-Meyers,_Franz-Bild-6210-1.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Franz Meyers","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Meyers","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q75963","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75963","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: KAS-Meyers, Franz-Bild-6210-1.jpg by CDU (CC BY-SA 3.0 de)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KAS-Meyers,_Franz-Bild-6210-1.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Franz Meyers, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: KAS-Meyers, Franz-Bild-6210-1.jpg — CDU, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.","cite":"\"Franz Meyers\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/franz-meyers. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-02T07:06:57Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/franz-meyers","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/franz-meyers","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/franz-meyers?lang=ne"}}