Richard Hammer (politician)

Richard Hammer (7 February 1897 – 3 October 1969) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Life
Hammer was a member of the state parliament in Hesse from 1946 to 9 December 1949. He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1957. In 1949 he was directly elected in Darmstadt with 36.8% of the valid votes cast, and in 1953 he entered parliament via the Hessian FDP state list. Since 7 December 1949, he had been chairman of the Bundestag's Committee on Health Care.