Claus Leusser

Claus Leusser (born October 21, 1909 in Aschaffenburg ; † January 10, 1966 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and civil servant .

Life

After graduating from high school, Leusser was accepted into the Maximilianeum Foundation and studied law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1931 he passed the first and in 1934 the second state law examination with distinction and was appointed public prosecutor in 1935. However, Leusser refused to join the NSDAP and was therefore regularly overlooked for promotions. From 1942 until the end of the war he was in the Wehrmacht.

Immediately after his appointment as Bavarian Prime Minister, Fritz Schäffer appointed Leusser to the State Chancellery in June 1945 and initially made him head of the legal department, and in September 1945 also the general secretariat of the Council of Ministers. In July 1948, under Prime Minister Hans Ehard , Leusser also took over the department for constitutional issues and special assignments.

Leusser worked in 1946 as general secretary of the preparatory constitutional committee in the deliberation of the new Bavarian constitution as well as as Bavarian representative at the constitutional convention on Herrenchiemsee from August 10 to 23, 1948. He was a member of the editorial committee which, on behalf of the minister-presidents of the federal states, wrote a “draft constitution elaborate (should), which could serve as a basis for the Parliamentary Council ”. In November 1948, Ehard named Leusser as the representative of the Bavarian State Government at the Parliamentary Council and in May 1949 Leusser returned fully to the State Chancellery.

Due to his election by the Federal Council , he was a member of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court from September 7, 1951 to January 18, 1952 . He resigned because he took over the office of representative of the Free State of Bavaria at the federal government from the late Ernst Rattenhuber . His successor at the Federal Constitutional Court was Egon Schunck ; Leusser remained the Bavarian representative in Bonn until 1963. He then moved to the Bavarian Ministry of Justice as head of office.

Leusser edited the central commentary on the Bavarian constitution together with Hans Nawiasky . On July 3, 1959, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

literature

• Claus Leusser , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 16/1966 of April 11, 1966, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Karl-Ulrich Gelberg: Biographical information. In: Ders .: Hans Ehard. The federal policy of the Bavarian Prime Minister 1946-1954. Düsseldorf 1992, p. 545 f.
• The Federal Constitutional Court , 2nd edition 1971, p. 233.