Otto Landsberg

Otto Landsberg was a German jurist, politician and diplomat. He was a member of the revolutionary Council of the Peoples Deputies that took power during the German Revolution of 191819 and then served as Minister of Justice in the first democratically elected government of Germany in 1919. In that capacity, he also was a member of the German delegation that went to Versailles to receive the Allies Treaty of Versailles.

Landsberg was born onDecember 1869 in Rybnik in the Province of Silesia, to a Jewish family. His father was a medical doctor. After passing the Abitur in 1887 in Ostrowo, he moved to Berlin to study law. In 1895, having passed the First and Second State Examination , he opened a lawyers office in Magdeburg and made a name for himself as a trial lawyer.

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