Thomas Dehler
| Thomas Dehler | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 20 September 1949 – 20 October 1953 |
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| Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer |
| Preceded by | Inaugural |
| Succeeded by | Fritz Neumayer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
14 December 1897 Lichtenfels, Kingdom of Bavaria |
| Died | 21 July 1967 (aged 69) Wiesenttal, Bavaria, West Germany |
| Political party | Free Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Munich University of Würzburg University of Freiburg |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Thomas Dehler (14 December 1897 – 21 July 1967) was a German politician. He was the Federal Republic of Germany's first Minister of Justice (1949–1953) and chairman of Free Democratic Party (1954–1957).
Dehler was born in Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. After graduating from grammar school in 1916, he fought in World War I.
After the war, he studied medicine but soon switched to law and political science, which he studied in Munich, Freiburg and Würzburg. He passed his state examinations in 1920 and 1923, respectively. In 1920, he attained his doctorate with the dissertation "The statement of grounds in penal verdicts". In these days (1923) he also became co-founder of an anti-antisemitic student fraternity "Südmark-Monachia" in Munich. In remembrance of his studies at Würzburg, he later, in 1948, joined the student fraternity "Humanitas" Würzburg as an Alter Herr (alumnus).
After 1923, he worked as a solicitor in Munich and, after 1925, in Bamberg.
In 1925, Dehler had married Irma Frank, a Jewish woman.
In 1920, Dehler joined the liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) and in 1926 was elected district party chairman in Bamberg. In 1924 he was among the founding members of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, a paramilitary group founded in defence of the Weimar Republic. In 1930, the DDP merged with the Young German Order into German State Party, of which Dehler remained a member until its dissolution in 1933.
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