Eduard Strater

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Eduard Sträter (born June 8, 1884 in Düsseldorf ; † February 20, 1958 there ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Career

Sträter was born as the son of the secret medical councilor Ludwig Sträter and his wife Luise, née Oppenhoff. His two second cousins Hermann Sträter and Hermann Joseph Sträter and his great-uncle August Sträter also belonged to the family. In his Catholic parental home, Eduard Sträter was taught classical humanistic values. He attended the Royal High School and studied law and political science after graduating.

During the First World War he volunteered for the infantry and became a lieutenant in the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 . After being wounded several times, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. In 1919 he joined the Prussian general state administration. His career took him to the regional councils of Trier, Aachen, Cologne and Düsseldorf. After the end of the Second World War, he was appointed President of the Government of Düsseldorf in mid-1945 by the British military government . In spring 1946 he was dismissed from office; Kurt Necker was his successor on April 16, 1946 . Then Sträter was chairman of the Bergisches Schulfonds.

He was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Klöckner Group and several times President of the Düsseldorf Rotary Club .

In 1952 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

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