[1] He was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1951 to 1953 and was chairman of the FDP faction there in 1951/52.
He was a member of the German Bundestag from 3 October 1952, when he succeeded Wilhelm Nowack, who had been appointed Minister of Finance of Rhineland-Palatinate, until 1957, and again from 4 November 1959, when he succeeded Fritz Glahn, who had resigned, until 1961.
He always entered parliament via the FDP state list for Rhineland-Palatinate.
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