Hans-Joachim von Merkatz
| Hans-Joachim von Merkatz | |
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Hans-Joachim von Merkatz (left)
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| German Federal Minister of Justice | |
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In office 1956–1957 |
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| Preceded by | Fritz Neumayer |
| Succeeded by | Fritz Schäffer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 July 1905 Stargard, Province of Pomerania |
| Died | 25 February 1982 (aged 76) Bonn, Germany |
| Nationality |
 Germany
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| Political party |
German Party Christian Democratic Union |
| Alma mater | University of Jena |
| Profession | Lawyer, politician |
Hans-Joachim von Merkatz (7 July 1905 – 25 February 1982) was a German politician. He was Federal Minister of Justice from 1956 to 1957. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1961. He was a member of the German Party before joining the Christian Democrats in 1960.
Merkatz was born at Stargard in the Prussian province of Pomerania into a family of Prussian officers and functionaries, ennobled in 1797. His father, Hauptmann in the German army, died near Vilnius in 1915, during World War I. Merkatz received his primary education in Wiesbaden (Hesse), Jena and Naumburg (both in Thuringia). Initially immatriculated for agriculture, he turned to study law and national economics at the University of Jena from 1928 to 1931.
Merkatz received his doctorate at the University of Jena in 1934 and his approbation as a lawyer in 1935. The same year, von Merkatz started lecturing foreign and international law at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in Berlin. In 1938, he became secretary general of both the Ibero-American Institute and the German-Spanish Society, both in Berlin. The German-Spanish Society, founded in 1918, was concerned with the public relations to Spain. Since the Nazi take-over of 1933, the society was increasingly incorporated into the Nazi propaganda apparatus, and used to propagate the New Order ideology.
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