Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm

Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm (born October 17, 1916, in Munich; died January 19, 1977, in Bad Soden-Salmünster), was a German politician for the Free Democtratic Party.

Life

Kühlmann was the son of German entrepreneur and industrialist Richard von Kühlmann (1873–1948) and Margarete Freiin von Stumm (1884–1917). He attended school at Schloss Salem. After school he worked for a bank in Berlin. From 1936 to 1945 he served in the German Wehrmacht. After World War II he ran his own farm in Ramholz. He inherited a share of family mining company Gebrüder Stumm in Neunkirchen, Saarland.

From 1956 to 1972 Kühlmann was member of the German FDP. From 1960 he was member of German Bundestag. During the period of the Kiesinger cabinet, Kühlmann-Stumm served as opposition leader from 1966 to 1968. He left the FDP because of its support for the Ostpolitik of chancellor Willy Brandt, joining the conservative CDU instead.

Kühlmann married Jutta von Stumm, and they had a son named Magnus von Kühlmann-Stumm.

Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm died in a car accident on 19 January 1977 in Bad Soden-Salmünster.

Awards

1968: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

References

Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany) Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany Members of the Bundestag 1976–1980 Members of the Bundestag 1972–1976 Members of the Bundestag 1969–1972 Members of the Bundestag 1965–1969 Members of the Bundestag 1961–1965 Members of the Bundestag 1957–1961 Members of the Bundestag for Hesse Barons of Germany Alumni of Schule Schloss Salem 1916 births 1977 deaths Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany