Bernhard Bauknecht Explained

Bernhard Bauknecht
Office:Member of the Bundestag
Term Start:7 September 1949
Term End:19 October 1969
Birth Date:31 March 1900
Birth Place:Ravensburg
Death Place:Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Party:CDU
Nationality:German

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

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

Book: Vierhaus. Rudolf. Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002. Jahn. Bruno. 2002. De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. 978-3-11-184511-1. Herbst . Ludolf. München. de. Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002. 1715.

Notes and References

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