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11 september 1977 eutin , schleswig-holstein lübeck , schleswig-holstein 200px german jurist 26 january 1884 bundesarchiv bild 146-1976-123-09 , arnold brecht.jpg arnold brecht
 arnold brecht government official university of göttingen
arnold brecht

arnold brecht -lrb- january 26 , 1884 -- september 11 , 1977 -rrb- was a german jurist and one of the leading government officials in the weimar republic .
he was one of the few democratically minded high-placed officials that opposed the machtergreifung in 1933 .
an alumnus of the university of göttingen , brecht served as a government official from 1918 to 1933 .
he was dismissed from his post shortly after the nazi seizure of power , and emigrated to the united states .
he became a lecturer at the new school , and also a foreign policy adviser to the united states government .
after world war ii he returned to germany and helped drafting the basic law for the federal republic of germany .
in 1959 he received the federal cross of merit .
brecht also made contributions to political science .
brecht 's law is the academic basis for one of the components of the equalization payments between the states of germany .
