Bernhard Bauknecht

Bernhard Bauknecht (March 31, 1900 – October 23, 1985) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.[1]

Bernhard Bauknecht
Bernhard Bauknecht
Member of the Bundestag
In office
7 September 1949 – 19 October 1969
Personal details
Born(1900-03-31)31 March 1900
Ravensburg
Died23 October 1985(1985-10-23) (aged 85)
Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU

Life

From 1946 to 1952 Bauknecht was a member of the Advisory State Assembly and then of the State Parliament for Württemberg-Hohenzollern. In the state parliament he headed the committee for food and agriculture. From 1949 to 1969 he was a member of the German Bundestag. There he represented the constituency of Biberach. From 1953 to 1969 he was Chairman of the Bundestag Committee for Food, Agriculture and Forestry.

In the 1949 Bundestag elections he achieved the best first-past-the-post result ever achieved in a constituency, with 82% of the votes cast.

Literature

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.

References
  1. "Die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages - 1.-13. Wahlperiode: Alphabetisches Gesamtverzeichnis; Stand: 28. Februar 1998" [The members of the German Bundestag - 1st - 13th term of office: Alphabetical complete index] (PDF). webarchiv.bundestag.de (in German). Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Bundestages (WD 3/ZI 5). 1998-02-28. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
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