Andreas Schockenhoff (23 February 1957 – 13 December 2014) was a German politician for theCDU. From 1990 until his death in 2014, he served as a member of the GermanBundestag. In the general election in 2013, he was elected the seventh consecutive year as a direct mandate for the federal electoral district Ravensburg in the German Bundestag.
From 2006 until early 2014, Schockenhoff served as coordinator for theCabinet of Germany, and was responsible for German-Russian cooperation. As distinctive foreign policymaker he was known for his criticism ofVladimir Putin's government, and supported a more active German role in international crises.[1]
He announced in 2011 that he was undergoing therapy for his alcohol addiction.[2]
Schockenhoff was born inLudwigsburg, Germany. He died inRavensburg, Germany, aged 57[3][4][5] from either heart failure or heat exposure after entering a sauna.[6]The day before his death, Schockenhoff participated in a radio show where he defended Ukraine's sovereignty and called outRossiyskaya Gazeta's correspondent who had tried to label Russian elite troops as "insurgents."[7]
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