Hans Arnold Engelhard (16 September 1934 – 11 March 2008) was a German

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), he served as German Federal Minister of Justice in the

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, II, and III, between 1982 and 1991. Born in

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, Engelhard studied law at the

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and the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, and received his second

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in 1963. Having joined the Free Democratic Party in 1954, he won a seat in the

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in the

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. In 1982, he succeeded

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as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany, and served until 1992.

Awards

* 1984:

Bayerischer Verdienstorden The Bavarian Order of Merit (german: Bayerischer Verdienstorden) is the Order of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria. It is awarded by the Minister-President of Bavaria as a "recognition of outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria ...

* 1989:

Bundesverdienstkreuz The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

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