Ernst Benda
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Ernst Benda

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Date of birth15 January 1925
Place of birthBerlin, Germany
Date of death2 March 2009(age 84)
Place of deathKarlsruhe, Germany
NationalityGermany
Political partyCDU
Alma materFree University of Berlin
4th President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
In office8 December 1971 - 20 December 1983
Succeeded byWolfgang Zeidler
Preceded byGebhard Müller
6th Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany
In office2 April 1968 - 21 October 1969
Succeeded byHans-Dietrich Genscher
Preceded byPaul Lücke

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Ernst Benda (15 January 1925 � 2 March 2009) was a German legal scholar, politician and judge. He served as the 4th 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. After 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 � Madison 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 member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 1954 to 1957 he was 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 professor of law at the University of Freiburg.


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Im-Salzkammergut--Bezirksfeuerwehrkommandant OBR Robert -Benda- freute sich sehr über die große Teilnahme an diesem Bewerb und sprach den Gruppen Respekt aus, die sich fair den ... - Date : Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:53:54 GMT+00:00
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Ostthüringer Zeitung--Dabei steht nicht nur Barockes bevor, sondern Clara und Robert Schumann sowie Georg -Benda- wird ebenfalls gebührende Reverenz erwiesen. ... - Date : Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:29:59 GMT+00:00
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Mitteldeutsche Zeitung---...- -Benda-, eine zur Weihnachtszeit von Graun, ertönten die Ratswahlkantate von Doles sowie Sakralmusik vom Weißenfelser Kantor Gärtner und von Johann -Ernst- ... - Date : Mon, 31 May 2010 17:43:40 GMT+00:00

Interior Ministers of Germany

Imperial Interior Secretaries
(1871 �1918) German Empire		 Karl Hofmann * Karl Heinrich von Boetticher * Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner * Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg * Clemens von Delbrück * Karl Helfferich * Max Wallraf * Karl Trimborn
Weimar Republic
(1918 �1933) Weimar Republic		 Friedrich Ebert * Hugo Preuß * Eduard David * Erich Koch-Weser * Georg Gradnauer * Adolf Köster * Rudolf Oeser * Wilhelm Sollmann * Karl Jarres * Martin Schiele * Otto Geßler * Wilhelm Külz * Walter von Keudell * Carl Severing * Joseph Wirth * Wilhelm Groener * Wilhelm von Gayl * Franz Bracht
Nazi Germany
(1933 �1945) Nazi DE		 Wilhelm Frick * Heinrich Himmler * Paul Giesler * Wilhelm Stuckart
German Democratic Republic
(1949 �1990) GDR		 Karl Steinhoff * Karl Maron * Friedrich Dickel * Lothar Ahrendt * Peter Michael Diestel
Federal Republic of Germany
(1949 �) DE		 Gustav Heinemann * Robert Lehr * Gerhard Schröder * Hermann Höcherl * Paul Lücke * Ernst Benda * Hans-Dietrich Genscher * Werner Maihofer * Gerhart Baum * Jürgen Schmude * Friedrich Zimmermann * Wolfgang Schäuble * Rudolf Seiters * Manfred Kanther * Otto Schily * Wolfgang Schäuble * Thomas de Maizière



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