Hans-Christoph Seebohm
| Hans-Christoph Seebohm | |
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Vice Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) |
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In office 8 November 1966 – 1 December 1966 |
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| Chancellor | Ludwig Erhard |
| Preceded by | Erich Mende |
| Succeeded by | Willy Brandt |
| Federal Minister of Transport | |
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In office 20 September 1949 – 30 November 1966 |
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| Chancellor |
Konrad Adenauer (1949-1963) Ludwig Erhard (1963-1966) |
| Preceded by | none |
| Succeeded by | Georg Leber |
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| Born |
4 August 1903 Emanuelssegen, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (today Murcki district, part of Katowice, Poland) |
| Died | 17 September 1967 (aged 64) Bonn, West Germany |
| Nationality |
German 
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| Political party |
DP CDU (from 1960) |
| Alma mater | Technical College of Berlin |
| Occupation | Mining director, industrial manager, politician |
| Religion | Protestant [1] |
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). He was Federal Minister of Transport for 17 years and the fourth Vice-Chancellor of West Germany in 1966.
Seebohm attended school in Dresden, Saxony and studied mining at the universities of Munich and Berlin-Charlottenburg. 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. 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).
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). 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. 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. In 1952, Seebohm was elected DP chairman, but refused to assume office.
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