Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm

Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm

Otto Christian Knut Hans Konstantin Hubertus von Kühlmann, Freiherr von Stumm-Ramholz (born October 17, 1916 in Munich , † January 19, 1977 in Bad Soden-Salmünster ), known as Knut Freiherr von Kühlmann-Stumm , was a German politician ( FDP , later CDU ). From 1966 to 1968 he was opposition leader in the German Bundestag.

Life and work

Kühlmann-Stumm was the son of Richard von Kühlmann (1873-1948), the State Secretary of the Foreign Office of the German Empire in the war years 1917/18, and his first wife Margarete von Stumm (1884-1917, from 1913 Baroness von Stumm-Ramholz ). He attended the Salem boarding school on Lake Constance, where he passed the secondary school leaving certificate. He then completed a bank apprenticeship in Berlin . After successfully passing the commercial assistant examination, he joined the Wehrmacht in 1936, which he belonged to until the end of the war in 1945. During the Second World War he was temporarily an escort officer of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel .

After returning from captivity, Kühlmann-Stumm took over the agricultural and forestry operations he had inherited in Ramholz , Schlüchtern district , and became the general agent for several German breeding cattle exporters. As a partner in the Stumm Group , he represented the family as deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Stumm GmbH holding company and was a member of the supervisory board of several subsidiaries. He was killed in a traffic accident.

Political party

Originally, Kühlmann-Stumm was a member of the FDP, whose Hessian state executive he had belonged to since 1956. From 1956 to 1958 he was the state treasurer. In 1972 he left the Liberals in protest against the new Ostpolitik and joined the CDU.

From 1959 to 1960 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

MP

Kühlmann-Stumm was a member of the German Bundestag from 1960, when he replaced the late Max Becker , with a brief interruption until 1976.

After the Bundestag election in 1961 , Konrad Adenauer Kühlmann-Stumm offered the office of Federal Finance Minister as part of the coalition negotiations between the Union parties and the FDP , which he refused because, as an industrialist, he could not make impartial decisions. In fact, he became deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group . When Erich Mende entered the federal government, von Kühlmann-Stumm was elected leader of the Liberal parliamentary group on November 5, 1963. He held this office until January 23, 1968. On December 1, 1966, when the Federal Government Kiesinger took office, he was also the leader of the opposition.

From 1968 to December 7, 1971, Kühlmann-Stumm was again deputy parliamentary group leader. In protest against the new Ostpolitik of the Federal Government Brandt / Scheel , he voted for the opposition candidate Rainer Barzel (CDU) in the constructive no-confidence vote against Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt ( SPD ) on April 27, 1972 , although he was still a member of the ruling party FDP. Logically, on May 17, 1972, he also voted against the Eastern Treaties and then left the Liberals. On May 30, 1972, Kühlmann-Stumm resigned from the Bundestag . In the new elections in November 1972 , he ran for the CDU and was re-elected to the Bundestag.

Honors

• 1968: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , reviewed and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 148ff.
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 466.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FDP parliamentary group: Chief Knut . Der Spiegel , November 13, 1963, accessed on August 2, 2012 (issue 46/1963, pp. 46–48). 
2. ↑ Short biography at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 8, 2012.