11 Facts About Eduard Hamm

Eduard Hamm later became a member of the Bavarian Landtag and the German Reichstag, representing the German Democratic Party.

Eduard Hamm served as Minister for Trade, Industry and Commerce in the government of the Free State of Bavaria from 1919 to 1922, and later as Reich Minister for Economics under Chancellor Wilhelm Marx.

Eduard Hamm was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 following the 20 July Plot and died under mysterious circumstances in prison.

Eduard Hamm was married to Maria von Merz and had three children.

Eduard Hamm then began studying law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen and passed the first exam in 1902 and the second in 1905.

Eduard Hamm was a scholarship holder of the Stiftung Maximilianeum and a member of the Akademischer Gesangverein Munchen.

Eduard Hamm resigned his seat in the state parliament after being elected to the German Reichstag in the June 1920 Reichstag election, where he served until 1924.

From 31 May 1919 to 24 July 1922, Eduard Hamm was Minister for Trade, Industry and Commerce in the governments of the Free State of Bavaria led by the Prime Ministers Hoffmann, von Kahr and Lerchenfeld-Kofering.

Eduard Hamm withdrew from active political life and worked as a lawyer in Berlin and Munich in the following years.

The suicide theory was later repeated in literature and interpreted to mean that Eduard Hamm wanted to avoid revealing the names of accomplices.

Eduard Hamm was married to Maria von Merz since 1907, with whom he had two daughters and a son.