Renatus Weber

Renatus Weber (born March 4, 1908 in Annemasse , Haute-Savoie , † March 29, 1992 ) was a German CDU politician and a member of the Hamburg parliament .

Life

Renatus Weber studied law in Heidelberg , Denver ( USA ) and Hamburg. At the University of Hamburg he was chairman of the DVP university group and received his doctorate in 1934 with the thesis "The development of the legal status of non-profit organizations in the United States of America" .

From 1934 to 1946 Weber was employed by the Hamburg Regional Court . There he worked as a public prosecutor from 1937 to 1946. During this time he was also a soldier in World War II from 1940 to 1945 and was taken prisoner by the British until 1946.

From 1946 to 1948 he was a judge at the Hamburg District Court and since 1948 a lawyer. In his function as a lawyer, he then defended German war criminals in British and Belgian courts. After his political work in Hamburg and Bonn, he was again a lawyer in Hamburg from 1967 to 1983.

politics

Weber was from 1949 to February 9, 1955 and from 1957 to 1959 a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the CDU, which he had joined in 1948. In the intervening period from 1953 to 1957 he was a member of the Senate of the Hamburger Block under Kurt Sieveking . His senatorial position was that of the representative of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg at the federal government in Bonn. From 1949 onwards he was a member of the constitutional committee and was involved in drafting the Hamburg constitution.

After his mandate in the citizenry, he changed from 1959 to 1967 to the Federal Ministry for Affairs of the Bundesrat and the Länder , which at the time did not have a State Secretary , as Ministerial Director with the function of Office Head . After that, he was presumably given temporary retirement.

Honors

• 1967: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

plant

• Retired Mayor Dr. Kurt Sieveking on his 70th birthday on February 21, 1967 , Verlag Wachholtz, Neumünster1967.
• Hamburg speeches in the Federal Council , Verlag Cram, de Gruyter & Co, Hamburg 1957.
• The Constitution of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , together with Wilhelm Drexelius , Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1953 (2nd revised edition 1972)
• The development of the legal status of non-profit enterprises in the United States of America , 1934, at the same time dissertation at the University of Hamburg.

literature

• The Hamburg citizenship 1946–1971 , edited by Erich Lüth , Hamburg 1971.
• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : From the “working group” to the big party. 40 Years of the Christian Democratic Union in Hamburg (1945-1985) , published by the State Political Society, Hamburg 1986, p. 266.
• Günter Buch , Archive for Christian-Democratic Politics (Bonn): The holdings of the Archive for Christian-Democratic Politics of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Brief overview. In: Publication by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. 3rd, modified and updated edition, Knoth, Melle, 1992, p. 182.

Web links

• Literature by and about Renatus Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short entry about Weber in the Federal Archives