Hermann Ehren
Announcement poster of the CDU Tecklenburg for an election meeting with Hermann Ehrens on the occasion of the Landtag election in North Rhine-Westphalia 1947
Member of the Bundestag
In office 7 September 1949 – 15 October 1961
In office 4 October 1962 – 30 November 1964
Personal details
Born	(1894-10-17)17 October 1894 Essen
Died	30 November 1964(1964-11-30) (aged 70) Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	CDU

Hermann Ehren (17 October 1894 – 30 November 1964) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.^[1]

Political career

In 1945, he joined the CDU and in 1946 became chairman of the refugee committee for Westphalia. Ehren belonged to the second appointed state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1946/47 and was a member of the zone advisory council of the British occupation zone in 1947/48.

In the 1949 Bundestag elections, he ran for election in the Meschede-Olpe constituency, won it and moved to the German Bundestag, where he remained until 1961, having been elected in 1953 and 1957 via the state list. On 4 October 1962 he succeeded Robert Pferdmenges and was again a member of parliament until his death in 1964.

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.