Richard Behn

Richard Behn (born July 4, 1886 in Lübeck , † March 8, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DVP , DP , GDP ).

Life

Richard Wilhelm Arnold Behn studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1911 on the subject of the prerequisites for acquiring citizenship in German cities in the Middle Ages . He was then admitted to the bar in Hamburg. He maintained a joint law firm with his partners Wolfgang Borchert, Walter Grimm and Rudolf Sieveking. Behn was a member of the German People's Party in the Weimar Republic , for which he was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1926 to 1931 . After the general election in April 1932, he stood up as a leading DVP politician for a right-wing coalition including the NSDAP . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP.

After the Second World War he joined the German Party , for which he was re-elected to the Hamburg state parliament in 1953 on the list of the Hamburg bloc , to which he belonged until 1957. After the merger of the DP with the GB / BHE , he became a member of the new All-German Party , for which he ran unsuccessfully as a top candidate on the Hamburg state list in the 1961 federal election.

Web links

• Behn, Richard, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Baack to Bychel] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 80 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 568 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website : Members of the Göttingen Law Faculty
2. ^ Research center for contemporary history in Hamburg (ed.): Hamburg in the "Third Reich". Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-903-1 , p. 53.