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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|3|26|1896|3|24|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Bad Godesberg]], [[West Germany]]
| office = [[Vice- Chancellor of West Germany]]
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| president = [[Theodor Heuss]]
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After the end of [[World War II]], he was one of the founders of the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] (FDP) and served as chairman in the British occupation zone (1946-1949) and as Federal Chairman (1949-1954).
 
From 1949 to 1957, Blücher was a member of Chancellor [[Konrad Adenauer]]'s cabinet. As representative of the second-largest government party, he was the first [[vice- chancellor of West Germany]] and also held the [[Federal Ministry for Matters of the Marshall Plan|Ministry for Matters of the Marshall Plan]], which in 1953 was renamed ''Ministry for Economic Cooperation''<!---Do not link to "Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development" as this is a different ministry founded only in 1961.-->.
 
In 1956, Blücher – along with other fifteen ministers and parliamentarians – sided with Chancellor Adenauer against his party and formed the [[Free People's Party (Germany)|Free People's Party]] (FVP), which early in 1957 merged with the [[German Party (1947)|German Party]] (DP).