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Preceded by
  
Willi Weyer

Profession
  
Lawyer

Party
  
Free Democratic Party

Alma mater
  
University of Marburg

Education
  
University of Marburg


Role
  
German Politician

Nationality
  
German

Name
  
Burkhard Hirsch

Succeeded by
  
Herbert Schnoor

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Born
  
29 May 1930 (age 93) Magdeburg, Saxony (
1930-05-29
)

Similar People
  
Gerhart Baum, Hildegard Hamm‑Brucher, Werner Maihofer

Political party
  
Free Democratic Party

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Burkhard Hirsch (born 29 May 1930) is a German politician and civil liberties advocate. A member of the Free Democratic Party, Hirsch spent 21 years in the German Bundestag (1972–1975, 1980–1998). He also served five years as Minister of the Interior of Northrhine-Westphalia (1975–1980).

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Born in Magdeburg, then part of Prussian Province of Saxony, Hirsch earned his Abitur in Halle (Saale), and went on to attend the University of Marburg, majoring in legal studies. He received his first and second Staatsexamen in 1954 and 1959, respectively, and earned his Doctor of Laws in 1961 (Doctoral thesis: Der Begriff des Bundesstaates in der deutschen Staatsrechtslehre).

A member of the FDP since 1949, Hirsch first attained in a seat in the Bundestag in the German federal election, 1972. He left to become Minister of the Interior of Northrhine-Westphalia in 1975, but returned in 1980. He has gained a reputation as one of the most vocal advocates for civil liberties in Germany, which earned him the Arnold Freymuth Prize (1998) and the Fritz Bauer Prize (2006). Hirsch was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the Goethe University Frankfurt (2006), and praised in the laudatory speech by Peter-Alexis Albrecht as "a nonpartisan, relentless, and aggressive advocate of rigorous rule of law".

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