Rudolf Amelunxen

Amelunxen in 1954

Rudolf Amelunxen (30 June 1888 – 21 April 1969) was a German politician of the Zentrum and the 1st Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia (1946/47). He was born in Cologne and died in Grafschaft Abbey / Schmallenberg.

From 1926 to 1932 he was the regional president of the Westphalian Münster Region, however, furloughed after the Putsch in Prussia. On 5 July 1945 the British military government appointed him upper president of the Province of Westphalia, an office he held until Westphalia merged in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1946.

External links

Online
Rudolf Amelunxen in the German National Library catalogue

Minister Presidents of North Rhine-Westphalia

Rudolf Amelunxen Karl Arnold Fritz Steinhoff Franz Meyers Heinz Kühn Johannes Rau Wolfgang Clement Peer Steinbrück Jürgen Rüttgers Hannelore Kraft

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 805655 LCCN: nr89016535 ISNI: 0000 0000 8080 6047 GND: 118648764

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