Ernst Benda was a German legal scholar, politician, and judge who served as the fourth President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983. Before joining the court he sat in the Bundestag from 1957 to 1971 and served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1968 to 1969, and in 1965 he played a significant role in the debate over extending West Germany's statute of limitations for the murder charges against former Nazi officials. Earlier still, he helped found the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit, an anti-communist organization that operated in East Germany, and after leaving the bench he held a law professorship at the University of Freiburg.
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Why did Ernst Benda argue against ending the limitation period for Nazi murders in 1965?
He argued that a people's sense of justice would be corrupted if murders had to go unpunished although they could still be punished.
In 1965 Benda led those in his parliamentary group who demanded a longer limitation period for prosecuting Nazi crimes, against resistance from within his own party. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation reports that he told the Bundestag a people's sense of justice would be corrupted if the murders had to go unpunished although they could be punished. The speech made the young politician known to a wider public, and the limitation was for the time being prevented.
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He was the fourth president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983.
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Ernst Benda (15 January 1925 - 2 March 2009) was a German legal scholar, politician, and judge. He was the fourth president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983.
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Ernst Benda (15 January 1925 - 2 March 2009) was a German legal scholar, politician, and judge.
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He was the fourth president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983.
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He was the fourth president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1971 to 1983.
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was a German legal scholar
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Wikidata Q494994, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1925
Wikidata Q494994, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1925-01-15
Wikidata Q494994, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 2009
Wikidata Q494994, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 2009-03-02
Wikidata Q494994, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Berlin
Wikidata Q494994, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Karlsruhe
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