Heinz Braun (politician)

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Heinz Braun (born April 10, 1888 in Neuss , † December 22, 1962 in Zurich , Switzerland ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPS ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Braun first attended a teachers' seminar and then worked as a primary school teacher. He then studied philology and law at the universities in Bonn and Halle . He worked as a lawyer in Magdeburg from 1924 and was a member of the board of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold during the Weimar Republic , which he represented in court proceedings as a lawyer. He was also a city councilor for Magdeburg. After the National Socialists came to power, Braun was briefly taken into " protective custody " in 1933 . He then fled to the Saar region , where he worked as an editor for the Magdeburg Volksstimme . He emigrated to France in 1935 , continued his journalistic work there and from 1936 worked as a legal advisor for the Office pour les refugiés Sarrois . After the German occupation of France in 1940 he fled to Great Britain via Casablanca . There he was from 1942 to 1945 as a member of the group of parliamentarians around Karl Höltermann in the Ministry of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Office in London .

After the Second World War , Braun returned to Germany. He was an advisor at the Nuremberg Court of Justice in 1945/46 and worked from 1946 to 1951 as attorney general in Saarland .

politics

Braun joined the SPS after 1945, belonged to the Constitutional Commission of the Saarland and the Legislative Assembly of the Saarland in 1947 and was then a member of the Saarland Landtag until 1955 . From December 20, 1947 to April 14, 1951 and again from December 23, 1952 to July 17, 1954, he was Minister of Justice in the Saarland government led by Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann . He was also President of the Europa-Union Saar from 1949 to 1955 . from 1949 to 1956 he was also a city councilor in Saarbrücken. After the Saar referendum , he withdrew from active politics. In March 1958 he moved to Switzerland.

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