Hans Wellhausen

Hans Wellhausen (born September 19, 1894 in Bad Münder am Deister , † September 3, 1964 in Rummelsberg ) was a German politician ( FDP , CSU ).

Life and work

Wellhausen studied after high school law . After the second state examination, he was a member of the government in Bremen in the 1920s . He later became factory director and was chairman of the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbahn from 1952 .

Political party

Wellhausen joined the NSDAP in 1942 and after the war became a member of the FDP , of which he was a member of the federal executive committee between 1951 and 1955. On February 23, 1956 he left the FDP with the ministerial wing (so-called Euler group ) and belonged to the new parliamentary group “Democratic Working Group”. In contrast to its other members, however, he did not participate in the founding of the FVP , but entered the CSU on June 23, 1956 .

MP

Wellhausen was 1948/49 member of the Economic Council of the Bizone , where he was from July 9, 1948 chairman of the patent law committee . He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1957. From 1949 to 1953 he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. From September 19, 1951 to 1957, he was chairman of the Bundestag committee for finance and tax issues, and in 1953 also the special committee to consider the laws on German foreign debt, the " London Debt Agreement " .

Honors

• 1955: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• Bremen. In: Hermann Sacher: Staatslexikon , Volume 1, Freiburg im Breisgau 1926, Sp. 1049 ff.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 937.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Bähr , Ralf Banken, Thomas Flemming: Die MAN: Eine deutsche Industriegeschichte , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2008, p. 284, ISBN 978-3-406-57762-8 .