Hildegard Damerius (born 29 January 1910 in

Duisburg Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...

; died 3 May 2006 in Berlin) was a German lawyer and politician of the

Socialist Unity Party of Germany The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (, ; SED, ) was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from the country's foundation in 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. It was a Mar ...

(SED) in the

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( GDR). Until 1934, she studied law at the Universities of

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and

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and received her doctorate in 1938, after a legal clerkship in the Saxon Ministry of Justice.Hermann Wentker ''Justiz in der SBZ/DDR 1945–1953. Transformation und Rolle ihrer zentralen Institutionen.'' (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte. Band 51). Oldenbourg, München 2001, . p. 252 As an employee of the Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice, she was involved in the Waldheim trials.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Damerius, Hildegard 1910 births 2006 deaths Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians Leipzig University alumni Jurists from North Rhine-Westphalia German prosecutors