Hanns Seidel

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Hanns Seidel
Minister President of Bavaria
In office
16 October 1957 – 22 January 1960
PresidentTheodor Heuss
Heinrich Lübke
ChancellorKonrad Adenauer
Preceded byWilhelm Hoegner
Succeeded byHans Ehard
Minister for Economy
In office
1947–1954
Personal details
Born(1901-10-12)12 October 1901
CSU
OccupationLawyer

Franz Wendelin "Hanns" Seidel (

Christian Social Union of Bavaria
.

Biography

Seidel was born in Schweinheim, now part of Aschaffenburg, one of seven children; his parents were Johann and Christine Seidel. He was originally baptized under the name Franz Wendelin but was soon called simply Hanns. His father died when he was seven and the family had to live in relative poverty from then on. Despite those circumstances, he managed to obtain a good education.

Hanns Seidel studied law in

Eastern Prussia
to avoid arrest but returned home soon after.

He was elected to the

Franz Josef Strauß in a highly contested party vote. He immediately went to modernize the party and its politics.[1]

After

Minister-President of Bavaria, Hanns Seidel was elected by the Landtag as Minister-President on 16 October 1957. He had to resign from this post on 21 January 1960 due to health reasons and died the year after, at the age of 59, in Munich
.

The Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (Hanns Seidel Foundation), formed in 1967, a taxpayer-money funded political research foundation closely associated with the CSU, is named after him.

References

  1. ^ Modernizing Bavaria: The Politics of Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU, 1949-1969 google book review, author: Mark S. Milosch, publisher: Berghahn Books, page 50, accessed: 10 May 2008

External links

  • Official website of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (in English)
  • Official Bavarian government website - Hanns Seidel biography (in German)
  • Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg - Boisls bayrische Biography - Hans Seidel (in German), page 717
  • Andreas Bitterhof (2008). "Seidel, Hanns". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 29. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 1342–1348.
    ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6
    .
  • Hanns Seidel Foundation website - Biography of Hanns Seidel
Political offices
Preceded by
Prime Minister of Bavaria

1957 – 1960 		Succeeded by
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