What key details about ernst benda can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: ernst benda -lrb- 15 january 1925 -- 2 march 2009 -rrb- was a german legal scholar , politician and judge . he served as the 4th president of the federal constitutional court of germany from 1971 to 1983 . benda briefly served as minister of the interior of germany -lrb- 1968 to 1969 -rrb- . ernst benda was born in berlin , the son of an engineer . after school he served in the kriegsmarine from 1943 to 1945 . after the war he studied law at the humboldt university of berlin in east berlin , but in 1948 moved to the university of wisconsin -- madison and then to the free university of berlin in west berlin . 1956 he started to work as a lawyer in berlin . from 1946 benda was member of the christian democratic union -lrb- cdu -rrb- . from 1954 to 1957 he was member of the abgeordnetenhaus von berlin , the parliament of berlin . 1957 he was elected to the bundestag , the west german parliament . in 1965 he was involved in bringing significant changes to west germany 's statutes of limitations for murder . without these changes it would not have been possible to bring charges of murder against erstwhile national socialists . since 1967 he was secretary of state in the german interior ministry and since 1968 minister of the interior . 1969 he was appointed as a judge to the federal constitutional court of germany . from 1971 to 1983 he was president of the court . from 1984 benda was professor of law at the university of freiburg .
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- imagesize is 200px- death place is karlsruhe , germany- successor is wolfgang zeidler hans-dietrich genscher- party is cdu- death date is 2 march 2009- predecessor is gebhard muller paul lucke- office is 4th 6th federal minister of the interior of germany president of the federal constitutional court of germany- term end is 20 december 1983 21 october 1969- term start is 8 december 1971 2 april 1968- birth date is 15 january 1925- name is ernst benda- nationality is germany- image is bundesarchiv ernst benda.jpg b 145 bild-f041440-0013 , hamburg , cdu-bundesparteitag ,- birth place is berlin , germany- religion is protestantism- alma mater is free university of berlin