Peter Horn (politician)
German politician (1891–1967)
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Peter Horn (April 15, 1891 – June 26, 1967) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.[1]
Life
After 1945 Horn participated in the foundation of the CDU. From 1947 he was chairman of the Frankfurt am Main district association. Horn was a member of the Economic Council from 1947 to 1949, where he was Chairman of the Postal and Telecommunications Committee and Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. In 1950 he was a member of the Hessian State Parliament for a few months.
Horn was a member of the German Bundestag from 10 June 1950, when he succeeded Hans Schlange-Schöningen, until 1965. In 1953 and 1957 he was elected to parliament in the constituency of Frankfurt I directly and in 1961 via the Hessian state list of his party.
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.
