Gerhard Karl Hans Tötemeyer (21 May 1935 – c. 31 January 2024) was a Namibian academic and politician who served as deputy minister of local government from 2000 to 2004.
Gerhard Karl Hans Tötemeyer was born in Gibeon, and spent the first four years of his life in Keetmanshoop, where his father worked as a missionary.
In 1987, shortly before Namibian Independence, he moved to Windhoek and became Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management Science at the University of Namibia.
[1] After independence in 1990, Tötemeyer was a member of the first Delimitation Commission of Namibia,[3] a body that infrequently decides on the administrative division of the country.
[4] He was director of elections between 1992 and 1998, became a member of Parliament in 2000 and was appointed deputy minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development.