Gottfried Leonhard | |
Office: | Member of the Bundestag |
Term Start: | 7 September 1949 |
Term End: | 17 October 1965 |
Birth Date: | 14 March 1895 |
Birth Place: | Nöttingen, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire |
Death Place: | Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany |
Party: | CDU |
Gottfried Leonhard (March 14, 1895 - October 7, 1983) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and member of the German Bundestag.[1]
Leonhard was a co-founder of the CDU in Pforzheim in 1945 and was at times the district chairman of the CDU there. After the Second World War, he was initially a member of the city council of Pforzheim. He was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden for constituency 24 (Pforzheim) from 1946 to 1950.
Leonhard was a member of the German Bundestag from 1949 to 1965 and represented the constituency of Karlsruhe-Land as a directly elected member. From 21 May 1953 until the end of the first legislative period, he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag Committee for Postal and Telecommunications Affairs.
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.