Artur Strater

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Artur Sträter on a state election poster in 1950

Artur Sträter (born June 1, 1902 in Altenvoerde ; † October 4, 1977 in Hagen ) was a German lawyer , publisher and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school at the humanistic grammar school, Sträter first completed an apprenticeship at a bank and then began studying law in Munich and Münster , which he completed with a doctorate to become a Dr. jur. finished. Then he settled as a lawyer in Soest . From 1941 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . Sträter had a Jewish grandmother, which is why he was considered a “quarter Jew” by the Nazis . He had some difficulties with membership in Soest clubs, but otherwise remained unmolested. His brother Bernd lost his license to practice as a dentist on August 1, 1933. After the end of the war, Sträter worked again as a lawyer and notary in Soest.

On March 10, 1946, Sträter received the license to found a daily newspaper. The publishing house "Westfalenpost GmbH" was founded on April 1st, 1946 in Soest. The first issue of the Westfalenpost appeared on April 26, 1946. Soest remained the headquarters of the publishing house until the end of 1949, and in 1950 it moved to Hagen. Until his death he acted as editor of the daily newspaper Westfalenpost in Hagen , after that it was his wife Dorita Sträter, née. Boelitz. From 1950 to 1970 he was Chairman of the Broadcasting Council of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne .

Political party

Sträter and his father-in-law, Otto Boelitz , who had been Prussian Minister of Culture in the 1920s, co-founded the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) of Westphalia on September 2, 1945 in Bochum. He was also a co-founder of the CDU in Soest, as its district chairman in 1945/46. Later he was a member of the state executive committee of the CDU Westphalia-Lippe as well as the state presidency of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia and the party's federal committee .

MP

Sträter was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament from 1946 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1970 . In 1947/48 he was a deputy member of the Zone Advisory Council for the British Zone .

Public offices

Announcement of an event with Strater in 1949

In June 1945, Sträter was appointed President of the Düsseldorf administrative district by the British military government . He later served several times as a minister in various state governments of North Rhine-Westphalia , which were headed by Prime Ministers Rudolf Amelunxen , Karl Arnold and Franz Meyers . He was Minister of Justice from 1946 to 1947, 1948 to 1950 and from 1962 to 1966 . From 1950 to 1954 he was Minister of Economics and Transport , from 1954 to 1956 and from 1960 to 1962 Minister of Federal Affairs and from 1958 to 1960 Minister of Finance . In addition, Sträter held the post of Deputy Prime Minister from 1950 to 1954 and from 1958 to 1962.

Trivia

In 1961, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported under the title Die Sträter-Depesche that Sträter used his political office at night in a state of drunkenness in an elaborate manner in order to be able to send a telegram contrary to the postal regulations.

Quote

“Men have often sat in the special courts who have prevented unimaginable suffering. The German judge in its entirety remained intact in the Third Reich. He did not surrender to Hitler. ”- Arthur Sträter in June 1947

Honors

See also

Cabinet Amelunxen II - Cabinet Arnold I - Cabinet Arnold II - Cabinet Arnold III - Cabinet Meyers I - Cabinet Meyers II - Cabinet Meyers III

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In addition: Dorita Sträter: Chronicle of the Westphalia Post 1946 to 1950. In: Communications of the Association for History and Home Care Soest. 29 (1999), pp. 6-9. Anne Sträter: The Soest dentist Bernd Sträter - a racially persecuted person during the Nazi era (with additions by Gerhard Köhn). In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte und Heimatpflege Soest 37 (2007), pp. 8–12.
  2. ^ The Sträter dispatch , Der Spiegel 14/1961
  3. rbbKultur: the Rosenburg file - how the Nazi justice system was (not) processed after 1945. July 17, 2019, accessed on July 18, 2019 (min. 3:22).

Web links

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