Kuno von Westarp
| Kuno von Westarp | |
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Westarp in 1924
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| Chairman of the German National People's Party |
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In office 24 March 1926 – 20 October 1928 |
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| Preceded by | Oskar Hergt |
| Succeeded by | Alfred Hugenberg |
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| Born | 12 August 1864 Ludom, Province of Posen Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | 30 July 1945 (aged 80) Berlin, Germany |
| Political party | German National People's Party |
| Occupation | Jurist |
Count Kuno Friedrich Viktor von Westarp (12 August 1864 – 30 July 1945) was a German Conservative politician.
Westarp was born in Ludom (present-day Ludomy, Poland) in the Prussian Province of Posen, the son of a senior forestry official. He attended the Gymnasium secondary school in Potsdam and studied jurisprudence at the universities of Tübingen, Breslau, Leipzig, and Berlin, passed the Staatsexamen in 1886 and did his military service in Breslau and Potsdam, where he was elevated to a reserve officer of the 1st Foot Guard regiment.
In 1887 he began his career in civil service at the administrative district (Landkreis) office in Freienwalde, Brandenburg whose head was Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, the later Chancellor of Germany. After his second Staatsexamen in 1891 Westarp continued he career as an assessor in Gostyn and Bomst in Posen, and in Stettin. He joined the service of the Prussian State Ministry in 1902 and became Chief of Police in the Schöneberg and Wilmersdorf suburbs of Berlin, before in 1908 he was appointed a senior judge at the Prussian administrative court.
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