Ulrich Klug

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Ulrich Klug (born November 7, 1913 in Barmen ; † May 7, 1993 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer , university professor and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

After graduation Klug took up a study of law at the University of Berlin in which he in 1938 with the promotion of Dr. jur. (Dissertation: The central importance of the protection concept for the purpose of punishment ) ended. His professional career began in various positions in the banking industry, most recently from 1952 to 1957 as director of Commerzbank AG in Karlsruhe. At the same time he was a private lecturer at the University of Heidelberg from 1950 to 1957 . He then accepted an extraordinary professorship for legal philosophy and criminal law at the University of Mainz . Finally, in 1960, he was appointed full professor for criminal law, civil and criminal procedural law as well as for legal philosophy at the University of Cologne . In 1965 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cordoba . In 1962 he appeared as a lawyer in the " Spiegel Affair ". In 1972 he worked on the alternative draft of a penal code and in 1979 he drafted a counter-concept for the model draft of a uniform police law of the federal and state governments presented by the conference of interior ministers . From 1979 to 1982 he acted as federal chairman of the Humanist Union .

politics

Klug had been a member of the FDP since 1968 and belonged to the party's left wing. From March 1, 1971 to April 29, 1974 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia . From April 30, 1974 until his resignation on February 23, 1977, he was Senator of the Judicial Authority in the Senates of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg led by First Mayors Peter Schulz and Hans-Ulrich Klose . In mid-November 1982 he resigned from the FDP because of the Bonn turnaround (the support of Helmut Kohl as Federal Chancellor).

From 1969 to 1982 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

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Individual evidence

  1. Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Klug, Ulrich, p. 233 .
  2. So politically naive . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1977 ( online ).
  3. Citizens at last . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1977 ( online ).
  4. Now or never . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1982 ( online ).