Bernhard Leverenz

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Justice Minister Bernhard Leverenz (left) and his successor Gerhard Gaul (Photo: 1967)

Bernhard Leverenz (born February 15, 1909 in Grabow ; † June 4, 1987 in Karlsruhe ) was a German politician ( FDP ). He was Minister of Justice of the State of Schleswig-Holstein from 1954 to 1962 and from 1963 to 1967 .

Life and work

After graduating from high school , Bernhard Leverenz, the son of a Chief Justice Inspector, studied law in Rostock and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1927 to 1931 , which he completed with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship , he also passed the Great State Examination in 1934. In the same year he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. at the University of Rostock with the thesis "The Prima-facie-Proof " . He then worked as a court assessor at the regional courts in Neustrelitz and Schwerin . On October 1, 1935, he resigned from civil service and was instead admitted to practice as a lawyer in Rostock. In 1938 he became a specialist lawyer for tax law and in 1943 also a notary in the district of the Rostock Higher Regional Court . From January 1942 until the end of the war, Leverenz was a naval judge , most recently with the rank of chief staff judge .

After the end of the Second World War , Leverenz worked as a tax advisor in Rostock from November 1946 , but left the Soviet zone of occupation in November 1947 and went to Kiel . Here he worked as a public prosecutor at the Kiel Public Prosecutor's Office until 1949 and then again as a lawyer. From 1950 he was also a notary again.

From 1972 to 1981 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Bernhard Leverenz was married and had two children.

Political party

In 1949 Leverenz became a member of the FDP. From 1951 he was deputy chairman and from 1952 to 1963 regional chairman of the FDP in Schleswig-Holstein . He was also a member of the FDP federal executive from 1952 to 1964 .

MP

From 1954 to 1963 Leverenz was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein . Here he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group from October to November 1954 and from October 1962 to January 1963 . Leverenz always entered the state parliament via the state list .

Public offices

On October 11, 1954, Leverenz was appointed as Minister of Justice in the state government of Schleswig-Holstein led by Prime Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel ( CDU ). From October 27, 1958, he was also Deputy Prime Minister.

Leverenz became known for his “understanding” for National Socialist lawyers and civil servants. At the Justice Ministers' Conference in October 1959 he argued that there had also been "upright judges at the People's Court ". In the state parliament in Kiel on January 16, 1961, he said: "I cannot disqualify someone who was an SS leader just because of this fact!"

After the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1962 , Leverenz resigned from the state government on October 21, 1962 because coalition negotiations with the CDU had stalled. After a nearly three-month CDU minority government, Leverenz was reappointed Justice Minister in the state government now headed by Helmut Lemke . After the state elections in 1967, he finally resigned from office on May 10, 1967.

Honors

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment (1) by Bernhard Leverenz in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ^ Enrollment (2) by Bernhard Leverenz in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  3. ^ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde-Sawade affair. How lawyers and medical professionals covered the Nazi euthanasia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5717-7 . Part C: The political and criminal investigation into the Heyde / Sawade case , Chapter 3: The Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Justice under the direction of Bernhard Leverenz (FDP) as chief prosecutor in the Heyde / Sawade case? , Pp. 238-241.
  4. ↑ Quoted in: Klaus Bästlein: “Nazi blood judges as pillars of the Adenauer regime”. The GDR campaigns against Nazi judges and public prosecutors, the reactions of the West German judiciary and their failed “self-cleaning” 1957–1968 . In: Klaus Bästlein, Annette Rosskopf, Falco Werkentin: Contributions to the legal history of the GDR . 4th edition, Berlin 2009 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR , vol. 12), ISBN 978-3-934085-05-3 , pp. 53–93, quoted on p. 70.

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SURNAME Leverenz, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the State Parliament, State Minister in Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabow
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1987
Place of death Karlsruhe