Hans A. Engelhard

Hans A. Engelhard
Engelhard at the Free Democratic Party convention in 1982
Federal Minister of Justice of Germany
In office
4 October 1982 – 18 January 1991
Preceded byJürgen Schmude
Succeeded byKlaus Kinkel
Member of the Bundestag
In office
13 December 1972 – 10 November 1994
Personal details
Born(1934-09-16)16 September 1934
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Died11 March 2008(2008-03-11) (aged 73)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Political partyFree Democratic Party
Alma materUniversity of Munich
ProfessionJurist

Hans Arnold Engelhard (16 September 1934 – 11 March 2008) was a German jurist.[1] A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), he served as German Federal Minister of Justice in the Cabinet Kohl I, II, and III, between 1982 and 1991.[2]

Born in Munich, Engelhard studied law at the University of Erlangen and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and received his second Staatsexamen in 1963.[3][4]

Having joined the Free Democratic Party in 1954, he won a seat in the Bundestag in the 1972 German federal election.[5]

In 1982, he succeeded Jürgen Schmude as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany, and served until 1992.[2]

  1. ^ "Hans A. Engelhard". www.munzinger.de. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Von Recht und Unrecht - 170 Jahre Geschichte des Justizressorts" (PDF). www.bmj.de. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  3. ^ Görtemaker, Manfred; Safferling, Christoph (17 July 2013). Die Rosenburg: Das Bundesministerium der Justiz und die NS-Vergangenheit – eine Bestandsaufnahme (in German). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-647-30046-7. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  4. ^ Amtliches Handbuch des Deutschen Bundestages: 11. Wahlperiode (in German). Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt. 1988. p. 86. ISBN 978-3-87576-191-7. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Die Bundesminister und Bundesministerinnen der Justiz ab 1949". bundesarchiv.de. Retrieved 2 February 2024.