Hermann Josef Pünder (1 April 1888 in Trier – 3 October 1976 in

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) was a German politician in the German Centre Party and the Christian Democratic Union. His older brother was the lawyer Werner Pünder.

Life

After attending school in Bad Münstereifel, Pünder studied Law in

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, Berlin and London. He finished his studies in 1911 with a ''Dr. jur.'' In 1919 he became a senior official in the Reich Ministry of Finance, and was then the state secretary from 1926 to 1932 in the Reich Chancellery under the

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Hans Luther (Centre Party), Wilhelm Marx (Centre Party), Hermann Müller (SPD) and Heinrich Brüning (Centre Party). In his spare time he also taught at the

Deutsche Hochschule für Politik The Deutsche Hochschule für Politik (DHfP), or ''German Academy for Politics'', was a private academy in Berlin, founded in October 1920. It was integrated into the Faculty for Foreign Studies (''Auslandswissenschaftliche Fakultät'') of the Humbol ...

in Berlin, partly at the same time as the later President of Germany Theodor Heuss. After the assassination attempt against Hitler on 20 July 1944, Pünder was arrested by the Gestapo, and deported for participating in the conspiracy against Hitler to the concentration camps at Buchenwald and

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. He belonged to a group of relatively prominent prisoners of the security services of the Third Reich, who were transported all across Germany and were freed in South Tyrol at the end of the war by the Wehrmacht officer

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Puender, Hermann Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Mayors of Cologne 1888 births 1976 deaths