Carl Damm (politician, born 1927)

Carl Damm
Candidate poster Carl Damms for the 1980 federal election
Member of the Bundestag
In office 19 October 1965 – 4 November 1980
Personal details
Born	(1927-02-20)20 February 1927 Koblenz
Died	8 December 1993(1993-12-08) (aged 66) Hamburg, Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	CDU
Children	Franziska Hoppermann (granddaughter)

Carl Damm (February 2, 1927 – December 8, 1993) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Life

Damm joined the CDU after 1945 and was deputy state chairman of the Hamburg CDU from 1968 to 1974. From 1953 to 1966 Damm was a member of the Hamburg State Parliament and was a member of the Hamburg-Block Parliamentary Group in the third legislative period (1953-1957). In the 1965 federal elections he was elected to the German Bundestag, of which he was a member until 1980. He had always entered parliament via the Hamburg state list.

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.