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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Ernst Benda
- Ernst Benda (15 January 1925 – 2 March 2009) was a German legal scholar, politician and judge.
- He served as the fourth president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983.
- Benda briefly served as Minister of the Interior of Germany (1968 to 1969). Ernst Benda was born in Berlin, the son of an engineer.
- Following school, he served in the Kriegsmarine from 1943 to 1945.
- After the war, he studied law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in East Berlin, but in 1948 moved to the University of Wisconsin and then to the Free University of Berlin in West Berlin.
- 1956 he started to work as a lawyer in Berlin. From 1946 Benda was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
- From 1954 to 1957 he was a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin, the parliament of Berlin.
- 1957 he was elected to the Bundestag, the West German parliament.
- In 1965 he was involved in bringing significant changes to West Germany's statutes of limitations for murder.
- Without these changes, it would not have been possible to bring charges of murder against erstwhile National Socialists.
- Since 1967 he was Secretary of State in the German interior ministry and since 1968 Minister of the Interior.
- 1969 he was appointed as a judge to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
- From 1971 to 1983 he was president of the court.
- From 1984 Benda was a professor of law at the University of Freiburg.
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Engelbert Reineke
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| Description | German photographer Deutsch: Deutscher Fotograf des Presse- und Informationsamts der Bundesregierung, Bundesbildstelle. Bekannt fĂ¼r seine Aufnahme Willy Brandts beim Kniefall von Warschau. | ||
| Date of birth | 1939 | ||
| Location of birth | LĂ¼dinghausen | ||
| Work location | Germany | ||
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