Gustav Radbruch
| Gustav Radbruch | |
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| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 26 October 1921 – 14 November 1922 |
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| Chancellor | Joseph Wirth |
| Preceded by | Eugen Schiffer |
| Succeeded by | Rudolf Heinze |
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In office 13 August 1923 – 23 November 1923 |
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| Chancellor | Gustav Stresemann |
| Preceded by | Rudolf Heinze |
| Succeeded by | Erich Emminger |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 November 1878 Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia |
| Died | 23 November 1949 (aged 71) Heidelberg |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Berlin University of Heidelberg |
| Profession | Lawyer, legal philosopher |
Gustav Radbruch (21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949) was a German legal scholar and politician. He served as Minister of Justice of Germany during the early Weimar period. Radbruch is also regarded as one of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th century.
Born in Lübeck, Radbruch studied law in Munich, Leipzig and Berlin. He passed his first bar exam ("Staatsexamen") in Berlin in 1901, and the following year he received his doctorate with a dissertation on "The Theory of adequate causation." This was followed in 1903 by his qualification to teach criminal law in Heidelberg. In 1904, he was appointed Professor of criminal and trial law and legal philosophy in Heidelberg. In 1914 he accepted a call to a professorship in Königsberg, and later that year assumed a professorship at Kiel.
Radbruch was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and held a seat in the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924. In 1921-22 and throughout 1923, he was minister of justice in the cabinets of Joseph Wirth and Gustav Stresemann. During his time in office, a number of important laws were implemented, such as those giving women access to the justice system, and, after the assassination of Walter Rathenau, the law for the protection of the republic.
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