Gottfried Leonhard

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| name = Gottfried Leonhard

| office = Member of the Bundestag

| image = KAS-Leonhard, Gottfried-Bild-2439-1.jpg

| caption = Gottfried Leonhard on a campaign poster for the 1957 federal elections

| term_start = 7 September 1949

| term_end = 17 October 1965

| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|3|14|| df=y}}

| birth_place = Nöttingen, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|10|7|1895|3|14|df=y}}

| death_place = Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany

| party = CDU

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Gottfried Leonhard (March 14, 1895 – October 7, 1983) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and member of the German Bundestag.{{Cite web|title=Die Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages - 1.-13. Wahlperiode: Alphabetisches Gesamtverzeichnis; Stand: 28. Februar 1998|url=http://webarchiv.bundestag.de/cgi/show.php?fileToLoad=627&id=12|date=1998-02-28|website=webarchiv.bundestag.de|publisher=Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Bundestages (WD 3/ZI 5)|language=de|trans-title=The members of the German Bundestag - 1st - 13th term of office: Alphabetical complete index|access-date=2020-05-21|format=PDF}}

Life

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.

Literature

{{cite book|editor1-last=Vierhaus|editor1-first=Rudolf|title=Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002|last2=Jahn|first2=Bruno|date=2002|publisher=De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur|isbn=978-3-11-184511-1|last1=Herbst |first1=Ludolf|location=München|language=de|trans-title=Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002|pages=1715}}

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