Wilhelm Gontrum

Wilhelm Gontrum (born March 24, 1910 in Schotten ; † October 13, 1969 in Lumda ) was a German CDU politician .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Giessen , Gontrum studied philosophy, natural sciences, history, German and Protestant theology at the university there from 1929 to 1933. After taking both exams, he became pastor in Watzenborn-Steinberg in 1935 (until 1958). Since 1950 he has been a member of the regional church synod of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . In 1956 he founded the Association of German Family Holidays and became its president. This association got into economic difficulties in 1962 and had to be reorganized by the state and church and taken over by the Inner Mission .

Political party

Gontrum was a founding member of the CDU in Gießen in 1945. From 1950 to 1954 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU in Hesse . In 1961 he became chairman of the Central Hesse district association. On September 20, 1962, he resigned from the CDU after the Hessian CDU state chairman Wilhelm Fay had asked him to resign from his offices and mandates because of the affair surrounding the family holiday club.

MP

From 1948 Gontrum was a member of the district council in the Gießen district and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1965.

Web links

• The pastor could not count. The recovery work of CDU member Gontrum went bankrupt . In: Die Zeit, September 21, 1962.