biography
pronunciation:
[hoys]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1963)
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| biography:
| First president of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949–59), born in Brackenheim, SW Germany. He studied at Munich and Berlin, became editor of the political magazine Hilfe (1905–12), professor at the Berlin College of Political Science (1920–33), and an MP (1924–8, 1930–2). A prolific author and journalist, he wrote two books denouncing Hitler, and when the latter came to power in 1933, he was dismissed from his chair and his books publicly burned. In 1946 he became a founder member of the Free Democratic Party, and helped to draft the new federal constitution. |
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