Paul von Krause
Paul Georg Christof von Krause ( born April 4, 1852 in Karbowo in Strasburg at the Drewenz, † December 17, 1923 in Berlin) was a German jurist and politician ( National Liberal Party ).
He studied from 1870 to 1873 in Leipzig, Heidelberg and Berlin, the Law and Social Sciences and was four years later received his doctorate in Göttingen. During his studies, he became in 1870 a member of the fraternity Leipzig Germania. In 1878 he was assessor and then Attorney representative in Insterburg and Königsberg. From 1880, Krause was also active as a lawyer and from 1887 as a notary in Königsberg. In 1890 he moved to Berlin. In 1888 he was elected for the first time for the National Liberal Party in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, where he - was a member until 1917 - since 1896 as second vice president.
Krause has held numerous senior positions in the German judiciary, he was a board member of the German Bar Association (1902-1909) and Chairman of the Berlin Bar Association ( 1905-1917 ). Also, the Association for the German inland navigation he sat from 1904 to 1906 before. They appointed him in 1906 to the Privy Council of Justice, raised him anlälich anniversary of the Emperor in 1913 in the hereditary peerage, and finally appointed him in 1917 to the State Secretary in the Reich Justice Office. He was the last in this position, because with the end of the Empire and the emergence of the Reich Ministry of Justice, he retired on 13 February 1919 from this office. In his legal career, especially his contribution to the preparation of the General Part of the Civil Code and the German tax reform stands out.
His political activity, he continued in the Weimar Republic. Krause joined the successor party to the National Liberals, the German People's Party, and sat from 1919 until his death in the Prussian State Assembly or in the Prussian Landtag.
From his marriage with Anna Burchard closed in 1880, he had four sons. The oldest, Paul (1882-1946) was later district in cross- ford and member of the County Council; the youngest, Helmuth (1893-1980), physician in Berlin and husband of the grotesque dancer Valeska Gert.