Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm

Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm (born October 17, 1916, in Munich; died January 19, 1977, in Bad Soden-Salmünster), was a German politician for the Free Democtratic Party.

Baron Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm

Life
Castle Ramholz

Kühlmann was the son of German entrepreneur and industrialist Richard von Kühlmann (1873–1948) and Margarete Freiin von Stumm (1884–1917). He attended school at Schloss Salem. After school he worked for a bank in Berlin. From 1936 to 1945 he served in the German Wehrmacht. After World War II he ran his own farm in Ramholz.[1] He inherited a share of family mining company Gebrüder Stumm in Neunkirchen, Saarland.

From 1956 to 1972 Kühlmann was member of the German FDP.[2] From 1960 he was member of German Bundestag. During the period of the Kiesinger cabinet, Kühlmann-Stumm served as opposition leader from 1966 to 1968. He left the FDP because of its support for the Ostpolitik of chancellor Willy Brandt,[3] joining the conservative CDU instead.

Kühlmann married Jutta von Stumm, and they had a son named Magnus von Kühlmann-Stumm.[3]

Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm died in a car accident on 19 January 1977 in Bad Soden-Salmünster.

Awards

References
  1. Spiegel.de:Knut Freiherr von Kühlmann-Stumm (German), 1962
  2. "Häuptling Knut". Der Spiegel. November 12, 1963 – via www.spiegel.de.
  3. Frankfurter Rundschau: Marodes Märchenschloss-Bewegte Familiengeschichte (German)
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