Paul von Krause

Paul George Christoph von Krause (1852 to 1923) was a German jurist and politician, born Paul Krause at Karbowo near Brodnica in West Prussia and ennobled in 1913. He studied law at Leipzig, Heidelberg and Berlin and took his doctorate at Göttingen in 1877. From 1880 he worked as a lawyer and from 1887 also as a notary in Königsberg and Berlin, sat on the board of the German bar association from 1902 to 1909 and chaired the Berlin bar association from 1905 to 1917. He was elected a National Liberal member of the Prussian Abgeordnetenhaus in 1888 and became its vice president in 1896. On 7 August 1917 he became State Secretary of the Reichsjustizamt, remaining through the November Revolution until Otto Landsberg replaced him on 13 February 1919, and he later sat in the Prussian Constitutional Assembly and the Prussian Landtag for the Deutsche Volkspartei.