Anton Stark

Stark studied philosophy, Catholic theology, economics and law in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg and Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia. Afterwards, he received a doctoral degree on the concept of the "social constitutional state" in 1959. Before he entered the Bundestag, he was a lawyer and an adviser for the Stuttgart farmers association.^[2]

He entered the Bundestag in 1965 and was elected for the first time on September 19 that year, increasing the CDU's first vote in the constituency to 50% from 39.7%.^[2]