President of the ‘’Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald’
Which position did Robert Lehr hold from Oct 1950 to Feb 1951?
Robert Lehr Robert Lehr ( 20 August 1883 – 13 October 1956 ) was a German politician ( DNVP , CDU ) . He served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1950 to 1953 under chancellor Konrad Adenauer . Early life . Robert Lehr was born on 20 August 1883 in Celle as the third child of Oskar and Clara ( Stück ) Lehr . His childhood was shaped by his fathers involvement in the military as well as his parents Protestant Pietistic beliefs . Academia and early political career . Education . Lehr completed his Abitur in 1904 and began studying jurisprudence in Marburg , Berlin , and Bonn . In 1907 he passed his first Staatsexamen in Cologne and received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1908 with a dissertation on legal liability laws within the German Reich . After completing his referendary and final Staatsexamen Lehr decided to pursue a career in local administration because of the personal autonomy and variety such a position offered . He began working as an assessor for the municipality of Düsseldorf in 1913 Politics . In December 1914 at the age of 31 , Lehr was elected department head of the police , in which role he was responsible for controlling the press , surveying food supply , counterespionage , and combating radical forces . He held this position throughout World War I . He moved to a position as head of the finance department in 1919 and worked their until 1924 , when he was elected ’’Oberbürgermeister’’ of Düsseldorf . During this time he was able to foster economic success within his city despite the worsening economic conditions in nearby Cologne . Nazi-era . Arrest . During a board meeting on 12 April 1933 , only weeks after the Enabling Act ( ‘’Ermächtigungsgesetz’’ ) , ‘’Oberbürgmeister’’ Lehr was arrested on charges of bribery and personal gain . He was released from “protective custody” in September 1933 due to a severe sickness . He remained barred from working as a lawyer or professor within Nazi Germany , and remained a private citizen throughout the remainder of the Nazi rule . Resistance . In 1935 , Lehr joined a Düsseldorf resistance group consisting of multiple prominent individuals of the Weimar Era including former Union Secretary Karl Arnold and evangelical lawyer Franz Etzel . The Düsseldorf resistance was connected with multiple other resistance groups throughout the nation , including those led by Jakob Kaiser in Berlin and Heinrich Körner in Bonn . Lehr and his wife remained under intense scrutiny by the Gestapo until the end of World War II . Post-war . Lehr returned to politics immediately following the war , helping to establish the CDU in 1945 . He was named the governor of the North Rhine-Westphalia province by occupying British troops . He belonged to the German Bundestag from 1949 until 1953 . Lehr remained active in other areas of society as well , serving as President of the ‘’Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald’’ , an environmental association , from 1947 until 1956 and acting as the head of the ‘’Marburger Universitätsbund’’ from 1952 until his death . He also served as President of the ‘’Industrial Club of Düsseldorf’’ during this time . Lehr died on 13 October 1956 at the age of 73 in Düsseldorf . Further reading . - Kaff , Brigitte ( 2004 ) . Robert Lehr . Christliche Demokraten gegen Hitler : Aus Verfolgung und Widerstand zur Union . Ed . Buchstab , Günter ; Kaff , Brigitte ; Kleinmann , Hans-Otto . Freiburg , Germany : Herder , 2004 . p . 337-343 . Print .