Hermann Ehren

Hermann Ehren
Announcement poster of the CDU Tecklenburg for an election meeting with Hermann Ehrens on the occasion of the Landtag election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1947
Member of the Bundestag
In office 7 September 1949 – 15 October 1961
In office 4 October 1962 – 30 November 1964
Personal details
Born	(1894-10-17)17 October 1894 Essen
Died	30 November 1964(1964-11-30) (aged 70) Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	CDU

Hermann Ehren (October 17, 1894 – November 30, 1964) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Political career

In 1945, he joined the CDU and in 1946 became chairman of the refugee committee for Westphalia. Ehren belonged to the second appointed state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1946/47 and was a member of the zone advisory council of the British occupation zone in 1947/48.

In the 1949 Bundestag elections, he ran for election in the Meschede-Olpe constituency, won it and moved to the German Bundestag, where he remained until 1961, having been elected in 1953 and 1957 via the state list. On October 4, 1962, he succeeded Robert Pferdmenges and was again a member of parliament until his death in 1964.

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.