Preuße, Protestant, Pragmatiker

Zusatztext

Friedemann Utz examines the contributions made by the jurist Walter Strauß (1900-1976) to the legal development of the early Federal Republic of Germany against the backdrop of his personal career. Born to Jewish parents in Berlin, Strauß was dismissed from his position in the Reich ministry in 1935. He survived National Socialism in Berlin and became a founding member of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union). As a result of the many years he spent as an undersecretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice, significant decision-making processes which took place during the early years of the Federal Republic become the focus of this study. Due to the diversity of the fields of law influenced by Walter Strauß, this volume is able to contribute a great deal of new facts to the history of law in postwar Germany and in the first decades of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Autorenportrait

Geboren 1969; Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Tübingen; 1995-99 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit an der Forschungsstelle für internationale Privatrechtsgeschichte in Tübingen; Rechtsanwalt.

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