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Hans-Christoph Seebohm was born on 4 August, 1903 in Emanuelssegen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (today Murcki district, part of Katowice, Poland), is a German politician (1903–1967). Discover Hans-Christoph Seebohm's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

Popular As Hans-Christoph Seebohm
Occupation Mining director, industrial manager, politician
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 4 August, 1903
Birthday 4 August
Birthplace Emanuelssegen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (today Murcki district, part of Katowice, Poland)
Date of death 17 September, 1967
Died Place Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Nationality Poland

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Children 2, including Thomas Seebohm

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1903

Hans-Christoph Seebohm (4 August 1903 – 17 September 1967) was a German politician of the national conservative German Party (Deutsche Partei, DP) and after 1960 the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

1928

Passing the Staatsexamen in 1928, he worked as a junior civil servant at Halle and obtained a doctorate level degree from the Technical College of Berlin in 1932.

1937

In line with West German government policy at the time, he questioned the borders of Germany, referring to the borders of the 1937 German Reich as base of any border revision and stating that Germans should also never forget about the eastern territories lost after World War I according to the resolutions of the Treaty of Versailles, while at the same time demanding restoration of the 1938 Munich Agreement, advocating the “return of the stolen Sudeten German homeland to the Sudeten German people.”

Seebohm's irredentist leanings about the Sudetenland were a source of embarrassment for the Bonn government, which had to counter West Germany didn't have any claim on these regions and causing him to be chided by Erhard.

Adenauer had hoped he would have so much work to do he wouldn't have time for radical activities.

Der Spiegel described him as someone who “with never tiring energy defies Cabinet decision whenever a demagogic opportunity presents itself.”

Seebohm died a few months after his retirement and is buried in the Bad Pyrmont cemetery.

1938

He became a mining director at Silesian Gleiwitz and Bytom and upon the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938/39 supervised the "Aryanization" of the mines at Královské Poříčí (Königswerth).

1946

Seebohm became president of the chamber of commerce at Braunschweig and was a member of the Landtag state assembly of Lower Saxony from 1946 until 1951.

From 1946 until 1948 he held the office of Minister for Reconstruction, Labour and Health in Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf's Lower Saxon state government.

1947

After World War II, he joined the regionalist Lower Saxon State Party in the British occupation zone under Heinrich Hellwege, which in 1947 was renamed German Party (DP).

1949

In the run-up to the first federal election of 1949, he and his party fellows Hellwege and von Merkatz negotiated a national conservative alliance with the Deutsche Rechtspartei and Hessian National Democrats, which however were aborted by the British occupation forces.

From 1949 until his death he was a member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Hamburg-Harburg.

From 20 September 1949 until 30 November 1966 he also served as Federal Minister for Transport, firstly under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who forced him to join the CDU in 1960 as he wouldn't support the DP any longer; then under Ludwig Erhard, under whom he ultimately, but briefly, served as Vice-Chancellor.

Seebohm was a firm supporter of the Bundesbahn, and went to some length to hamstring the trucking industry.

1952

In 1952, Seebohm was elected DP chairman, but refused to assume office.

1953

In April 1953, second trailers were prohibited.

1954

In 1954 a law was passed dictating that half of all transports in Germany had to be carried by train; this would be promoted by subventioning rates for train transports.

Trucking remained popular, however, due to its higher flexibility.

1956

Thus, in 1956, the rules were tightened yet more: Sunday truck traffic was prohibited, along with a host of other new restrictions.

Trucks were restricted to a 24 t GVW, with a maximum axle load of 8 t, and a maximum overall length of 14 m. A minimum power-to-weight requirement of 6 PS/tonne (max 373 lb/hp) was instituted.

These various restrictions forced truck manufacturers to develop entirely new trucks meeting the ever tightening requirements, and had a detrimental effect on exports.

1959

From 1959 Seebohm acted as spokesperson of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft (Sudeten German Homeland Association) of German expellees from Czechoslovakia, where he held his so-called "weekend speeches".

1960

In 1960 an easing of the restrictions was announced; railroad and trucking transport were now working in conjunction.

Paradoxically, meeting the tough restrictions had forced the German trucking industry to become lean and innovative, leaving them in a much stronger position than before Seebohm's programs.

1966

He was the minister of Transport for 17 years and the vice-chancellor of West Germany in 1966.

Seebohm attended school in Dresden, Saxony and studied mining at the universities of Munich and Berlin-Charlottenburg.

When the 1966 grand coalition under Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger took office, he left the cabinet, having served as a federal minister for seventeen years, a record beaten only by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's 23 years (with an interruption in 1982) but as of 2011 still the record for uninterrupted service.