Ernst Lemmer

Ernst Lemmer was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and former member of the German Bundestag.

Life

He became a member of the German Democratic Party in 1918. During World War Two he was an international correspondent for Neue Züricher Zeitung and later Pester Lloyd. He was accused later, during his time as a correspondent, as being a propagator of Nazi policy abroad by Telegraf. However, a CIA report said he might have been part of the Lucy spy ring, although Walter Schellenberg also said he was a member of Amt VI.
Lemmer was a member of the German Bundestag from the increase in the number of Berlin delegates on 1 February 1952 until his death. He was also one of the co-founders of the CDU in June 1945. From 15 November 1956 to 29 October 1957 he was Federal Minister of Post and Telecommunications in Konrad Adenauer's second cabinet, and then Federal Minister for Pan-German Affairs from 29 October 1957 to 11 December 1962. From 19 February 1964 to 26 October 1965 he was in Ludwig Erhard's first cabinet as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War-Affected Persons.