Heuss, Theodor

*		1884
†		1963

Beruf
German politician

Überblick

	1905 editor of the liberal journal Hilfe (Help); after 1912 editor of various journals
	1919 enters the German Democratic Party (DDP)
	1919-1933 District delegate in Berlin
	1924-1928 and 1930-1933 Member of the Reichstag (Parliament)
	1924-1933 Lecturer at the Berlin College for Politics
	1930-33 member of the Staatspartei (State Party)
	1932 political opponent of Hitler; nevertheless, Heuss under discipline of the party fraction in the Reichstag votes for the so-called enabling act
	during the period of National Socialist rule, Heuss is under a ban against public activities; free lance writer and author of various biographies
	1945/46 Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Land Baden-Würtemberg
	1946 co-founder of the FDP
	1947 Professor for Modern History and Political Science at the Technical University in Stuttgart
	1948/49 Member of the Parliamentary Council which drafts the Basic Law (constitution) for the Federal Republic of Germany
	1949-1959 First Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany