Alois Hundhammer

Alois Hundhammer
Alois Hundhammer (1963)
Parliamentary group leader of the CSU
In office 1946–1951
Personal details
Born	(1900-02-25)25 February 1900 Moos
Died	1 August 1974(1974-08-01) (aged 74) Munich

Alois Hundhammer (25 February 1900, Moos – 1 August 1974, Munich) was one of the most prominent politicians in Bavaria after World War II.

Alois Hundhammer, the first of thirteen children, was born to Alois and Maria (Grill) Hundhammer on 25 February 1900 on his parent's farm in Moos. His upbringing was heavily shaped by the country lifestyle and his parent's Catholic religion. He attended the monastic school Scheyern Abbey and, despite his father's initial protest, the humanistic Dom-Gymnasium in Freising.

Hundhammer's studies were interrupted in the summer of 1918 by World War I, in which he served briefly on the Western Front before enlisting in the Freikorps and taking part in the battle for Munich against the Bavarian Soviet Republic in April 1919. After the conclusion of fighting, he was able to begin studying history, philosophy, and economy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in the winter semester of 1919/1920. He married Adelheid Hillenbrand in 1923.

Hundhammer received his doctorate in 1923 with a thesis entitled "Die Geschichte des Bayerischen Bauernbundes" ("The History of the Bavarian Farmers' League). He completed a second doctorate three years later with a work on "the agricultural trade association of Bavaria." In 1927 he became general secretary of the Upper Bavarian Christian Farmers Union. Hundhammer became the youngest representative in the Bavarian Landtag after being elected in the state elections of 1932.