Hans Rau (politician, 1925)

Hans Rau (born May 6, 1925 in Tübingen ; † December 6, 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

Rau passed his Abitur in 1944 at the humanistic grammar school in Stuttgart and then took part in the Second World War as a soldier . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner. After his return from captivity, he began studying law and political science at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , which he completed with the second state examination in law. He then worked as a bank clerk. From 1955 to 1970 Rau worked as a research assistant for the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Tübingen and Hamburg. During this time he went on numerous trips abroad and from the 1960s onwards worked primarily as a researcher on Ibero-American law.

politics

Rau had been a member of the FDP since 1961. In 1970 he was elected to the Hamburg parliament, to which he belonged until 1974, although his mandate was suspended on February 19, 1971 due to a constitutional amendment. On April 22, 1970 he was elected to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and took over the management of the tax authorities there (until December 31, 1970 together with Otto Hackmack (SPD), then alone). Together with Reinhard Philipp , he took over the office of second mayor on October 3, 1972 . On April 30, 1974, he resigned from the state government.

See also

• Senate Weichmann III - Senate Schulz I