Heinrich von Brentano
| Heinrich von Brentano | |
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Brentano in 1960
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Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs West Germany
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In office 6 June 1955 – 30 October 1961 |
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| Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer |
| Preceded by | Konrad Adenauer |
| Succeeded by | Gerhard Schröder |
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6 June 1904 Offenbach, German Empire |
| Died | 14 November 1964 (aged 60) Darmstadt, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
| Alma mater | University of Giessen |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo (6 June 1904 – 14 November 1964) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1955 to 1961.
Brentano was born in Offenbach am Main, the son of the Centre politician Otto von Brentano, a member of the 1919 Weimar National Assembly. The Brentano family, of Italian (Lombard) origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim. He was related to famous German poets such as Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) and Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859). The author Bernard von Brentano (1901–1964) was his elder brother.
Upon his Abitur degree in 1922, Heinrich von Brentano studied jurisprudence at the University of Munich and took his first and second Staatsexamen in 1925 and 1929. He received his doctorate from the University of Giessen and from 1932 worked as a lawyer in Darmstadt, from 1943 until 1945 as a prosecutor in Hanau.
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