Richard Jaeger

Richard Jaeger
Jaeger in 1988
Vice President of the Bundestag (on proposal of the CDU/CSU group)
In office 11 May 1967 – 14 December 1976
President	Eugen Gerstenmaier Kai-Uwe von Hassel Annemarie Renger
Preceded by	Maria Probst
Succeeded by	Richard Stücklen
In office 6 September 1953 – 26 October 1965
President	Hermann Ehlers Eugen Gerstenmaier
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Maria Probst
Minister of Justice
In office 26 October 1965 – 1 December 1966
Chancellor	Ludwig Erhard
Preceded by	Karl Weber
Succeeded by	Gustav Heinemann
Member of the Bundestag for Fürstenfeldbruck
In office 7 September 1949 – 4 November 1980
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Eicke Götz
Personal details
Born	(1913-02-16)16 February 1913 Schöneberg, Germany
Died	15 May 1988(1988-05-15) (aged 75) Bonn, West Germany
Party	Christian Social Union
Children	6
Education	LMU Munich

Richard Jaeger (left) and the former German President Karl Carstens (right)

Richard Jaeger (16 February 1913 – 15 May 1998) was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Under Ludwig Erhard's second ministry, he was Minister of Justice (26 October 1965 – 1 December 1966).

From 1933, Jaeger was a member of Hitler's paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA), and was a member of the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945. From 1949 to 1980 Jaeger was a member of German Bundestag. He prominently supported the reintroduction of the death penalty in the 1960s, despite in the 1950s rallying against it and advocating for pardoning Nazi war criminals sentenced to death. From 1972 to 1974, Jaeger was President of the European Documentation and Information Centre (CEDI).

He was also President of the German Atlantic Society from 1957 to 1990 and Head of the German Delegation to the UNCHR from 1984 to 1990. He was married and had six children.

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