title: Bernhard Günther
text: # Bernhard Günther
  
  Bernhard Günther (November 4, 1906 – October 31, 1981) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
  
  ## Life
  
  In 1945 he was a co-founder of the CDU in Cologne.
  
  Since 1947 Günther was a city councillor in Cologne, in 1948 he was elected by the state parliament to the economic council of the Bizone. Günther was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1965. He was always directly elected to parliament in the constituency of Düren-Monschau-Schleiden. Günther was a member of the Bundestag's finance and transport committees
  
  ## 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). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.
  
  