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Walter Bartram

German politician (1893-1971)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ96652 ↗
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Walter Bartram (21 April 1893 – 29 September 1971) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Life

On 5 September 1950 Walter Bartram was elected Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein in a coalition with the BHE, FDP and DP.

Bartram became a member of the CDU in 1946. He was district chairman of the CDU in Neumünster. On 4 May 1952 he succeeded Carl Schröter (CDU) in the German Bundestag. He was then a member of the German Bundestag until 1957, representing the constituency of Segeberg - Neumünster.

Literature

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German).

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1893, 1971, 1950, 1946—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Walter, Bartram and German is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Walter Bartram” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.