# "Franz Josef Strauss, Defence Minister, reviews the Luftwaffe in 1958" – 1:40
This Lockheed coup, known as the "Deal of the Century", caused major political controversy in Europe and West German Minister of Defence Franz Josef Strauss was almost forced to resign over the issue.
The show follows the adventures of a group of pushy, wealthy teenage girls at the fictitious Franz Josef Strauss-Gymnasium in Munich.
Franz Liszt | Richard Strauss | Franz Schubert | Franz Kafka | Levi Strauss & Co. | Johann Strauss II | Franz Joseph I of Austria | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Boas | Strauss | Franz Ferdinand (band) | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Josef Mengele | Josef Albers | Franz Lehár | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Franz Josef Land | Franz Werfel | Franz von Papen | Franz Kline | Franz Beckenbauer | Josef Schwarz | Levi Strauss | Franz Marc | Peter Strauss | Neil Strauss | Josef Terboven | Franz Kneisel | Franz Joseph | Leo Strauss |
In 1982 it was revealed from the papers of former Bavarian state security chief Hans Langemann that Crozier was an attendant of Le Cercle and headed a secret international group that tried to influence the West German federal election of 1980 by using secret service connections and cover-up financial transactions in order to make Franz Josef Strauß Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Franz Josef Strauss, a major politician in post WWII Germany, became the target of the broadcasting and publishing media blitz that Armstrong unleashed upon Europe through the daily offshore pirate radio station broadcasts by his son Garner Ted Armstrong, The Plain Truth and the Ambassador College campus at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, England.
In 2002, Edmund Stoiber was the candidate for Chancellor for the CDU/CSU, the first time a CSU politician was chancellor candidate since the candidacy of Franz Josef Strauss in 1980.
In 1961, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported Franz Josef Strauss, minister of defense in Konrad Adenauer's cabinet, had advised his American colleague, Thomas Gates, to contract the company Fibag (Finanzbau Aktiengesellschaft) for construction of several thousand apartments for the American military in Germany.