Paul George Christoph von Krause (4 April 1852 – 17 December 1923) was a German

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Biography

Paul von Krause was born Paul Krause in Karbowo (near Brodnica),

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), he was ennobled ("von Krause") in 1913.Biography
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Krause studied law at the Universities of Leipzig,

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and passed his doctorate in 1877 at the

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. Since 1880 he worked as a lawyer, since 1887 also as a

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. From 1902 to 1909 Krause was a member of the board of the German bar association and Chairman of the Berlin bar association from 1905 to 1917. He was elected as a National Liberal member of the

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(Abgeordnetenhaus), representing the constituency of

- Fischhausen, in 1888 and became its Vice-President in 1896. Krause was the Chairman of the German Association of inland navigation in 1904-1906 and became State Secretary of the

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on 7 August 1917. He remained in this position throughout the German November Revolution and was replaced by Otto Landsberg on 13 February 1919. Krause became a member of the Prussian Constitutional Assembly ("Preußische Landesversammlung") in 1919 and the Prussian Landtag in 1921, representing the

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. Krause died in Berlin, where a street ("Paul-Krause-Strasse") is named after him.street names of Berlin

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Krause, Paul Von 1852 births 1923 deaths People from Brodnica County People from the Province of Prussia German untitled nobility National Liberal Party (Germany) politicians German People's Party politicians Members of the Prussian House of Representatives 19th-century German jurists Leipzig University alumni Heidelberg University alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni