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Hugo Preu was a German lawyer and liberal politician. He was the author of the draft version of the constitution that was passed by the Weimar National Assembly and came into force in August 1919. He based it on three principles all political authority belongs to the people that the state should be organized on a federal basis and that the Reich should form a democratic Rechtsstaat within the international community.
Hugo Preu was born in Berlin onOctober 1860 as the only child of Levin Preu , a Jewish owner of a lithographic business, and his wife Minna . Hugos father died in 1862 and in 1863 his mother married her husbands brother, Leopold Preu , a welloff grain merchant. After growing up in the western part of Berlin Hugo Preu attended university from 1878 at Berlin and Heidelberg, studying Rechts und Staatswissenschaften but with additional courses on history and philosophy. In May 1883, he passed the 1. Staatsexamen and in November was awarded the Dr. iur. at Gttingen. He stopped working as a legal Referendar in 1886 and instead chose a career as an academic teacher. In 1889, he was habilitated with his publication Gemeinde, Staat, Reich als Gebietskrperschaften and began working as a Privatdozent at the university in Berlin. Although the quality of his writings was appreciated by academia, his Jewish religion and democraticliberal views prevented him from becoming a tenured professor at
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