Eugen Schiffer

Eugen Schiffer was a German lawyer and liberal politician. He served as Minister of Finance and deputy head of government from February to April 1919. From October 1919 to March 1920, he was again deputy head of government and Minister of Justice. In 1921, he once more became Minister of Justice. Schiffer was cofounder of two liberal parties, the German Democratic Party in 191819 and the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany in 1946.

Eugen Schiffer was born in Breslau in the Prussian Province of Silesia onFebruary 1860 as the son of Bernhard Schiffer and his wife Mathilde . Schiffer graduated from the ElisabethGymnasium in Breslau with the Abitur and went on to study law at Breslau, Leipzig and Tbingen. He entered the Prussian judicial service in 1880 and after positions in Zabrze and Magdeburg became Kammergerichtsrat in Berlin in 1906. In 1910, Schiffer was promoted to Oberverwaltungsgerichtsrat.

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