Hans Ehard (10 November 1887 in Bamberg – 18 October 1980 in Munich) was a German lawyer and politician, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party.
Hans Ehard was born in Bamberg in 1887, son of a local official, August Ehard. He was married in 1916 to Annelore Maex. After his wife died in 1957, he married Sieglinde Odörfer in 1960.
After studying jurisprudence in Munich and Würzburg Ehard became public prosecutor in the Bavarian Ministr...
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Hans Ehard (10 November 1887 in Bamberg – 18 October 1980 in Munich) was a German lawyer and politician, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party.
Hans Ehard was born in Bamberg in 1887, son of a local official, August Ehard. He was married in 1916 to Annelore Maex. After his wife died in 1957, he married Sieglinde Odörfer in 1960.
After studying jurisprudence in Munich and Würzburg Ehard became public prosecutor in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice in 1919. In this office, he was the main prosecutor of Hitler and Ludendorff in 1924, after their failed attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government in 1923. In 1933 he became President of the high court in Munich, a position he held until the end of the war. He sympathised with the Bavarian People's Party but was not politically active in those years.
After the war, in 1945, he briefly served under Schäffer as Minister of Justice, later serving in Hoegner's first cabinet as undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Justice. He...
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