Walther Schücking Kohlezeichnung Ausschnitt

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Walther Adrian Schücking (6 January 1875,

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...

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– 25 August 1935) was a German liberal politician, professor of public international law and the first German judge at the

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. He was a German delegate to the International union of Hague conference, and one of the six German delegates to the Paris Peace Conference to whom the Allies presented the draft

Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles (french: Traité de Versailles; german: Versailler Vertrag, ) was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June ...

. Walther Schücking was nominated for the

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in 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934. In 1995, the Institute of International Law at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

was renamed the Walther Schücking Institute of International Law in his honor.

Biography

Schücking was born in

on 6 January 1875 to the district judge Carl Lothar Levin Schücking and his wife Luise Wilhelmine Amalie Beitzke (daughter of the politician and historian Heinrich Beitzke). His grandfather was the German novelist Levin Schücking (1814–1883). His brothers were

Levin Ludwig Schücking Levin Ludwig Schücking (29 May 1878, Steinfurt, Westphalia – 12 October 1964, Farchant) was a German scholar of the English language and English literature. Life He was the major figure of his time in Germany in English studies, as professor ...

(1878–1964), professor of English at the University of Leipzig, and Lothar Engelbert Schücking (1873–1943), lawyer, author and mayor of Husum. Schücking was married to Irmgard Auguste Charlotte Marte von Laer (1881–1952).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schucking, Walther 1875 births 1935 deaths People from Münster People from the Province of Westphalia German Protestants German Democratic Party politicians Members of the Weimar National Assembly Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic German Peace Society members 20th-century German judges