Hans Joachim von Merkatz

HansJoachim von Merkatz was a German politician. He was Federal Minister of Justice from 1956 to 1957. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1961. He was a member of the German Party before joining the Christian Democrats in 1960.

Merkatz was born at Stargard in the Prussian province of Pomerania into a family of Prussian officers and functionaries, ennobled in 1797. His father, Hauptmann in the German army, died near Vilnius in 1915, during World War I. Merkatz received his primary education in Wiesbaden , Jena and Naumburg . Initially immatriculated for agriculture, he turned to study law and national economics at the universities of Jena and Munich from 1928 to 1931.

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