Gustav Radbruch
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Gustav Radbruch was a German legal scholar and politician. He served as Minister of Justice of Germany during the early Weimar period. Radbruch is also regarded as one of the most influential legal ph
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Radbruch's grave in Heidelberg
The Law for the Protection of the Republic was the name of two laws of the Weimar Republic that banned organisations opposed to the "constitutional republican form of government" along with their prin
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…laws were implemented, such as those giving women access to the justice system, and, after the assassination of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, the Law for the Protection of the Republic, which increased the punishments for politically motivated acts of violence and banned organizations that opposed the "constitutional republican form…
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Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, whose assassination by right-wing extremists in 1922 led to passage of the First Law for the Protection of the Republic