Later Life
From 1967 onward, he wrote and was active in German politics. From 1969 to 1972 he was a member of the Bundestag (the German federal parliament) for the CDU.
After leaving the Commission, from 1968 to 1974 he was president of the council of the European Movement, which was founded in 1948 as the umbrella organization of various organizations in favour of European integration. He was to retain that post until 1974.
From 1969 to 1972, he was a member of the German Federal Parliament for the Christian Democratic Union.
He later moved from his country house in Westerwald to Stuttgart, in order to write.
He fell ill in early 1980 and died in Stuttgart on 29 March 1982, at the age of 80. He was buried 2 April 1982 at the Waldfriedhof Cemetery in Stuttgart..
He remained a bachelor all his life.
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