1. Robert Lehr served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1950 to 1953 under chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
11 Facts About Robert Lehr
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Robert Lehr was born on 20 August 1883 in Celle as the third child of Oskar and Clara Lehr.
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Robert Lehr's childhood was shaped by his father's involvement in the military as well as his parents' Protestant Pietistic beliefs.
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Robert Lehr began working as an assessor for the municipality of Dusseldorf in 1913.
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In December 1914 at the age of 31, Robert Lehr was elected department head of the police, in which role he was responsible for controlling the press, surveying food supply, counterespionage, and combating radical forces.
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Robert Lehr remained barred from working as a lawyer or professor within Nazi Germany, and remained a private citizen throughout the remainder of the Nazi rule.
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In 1935, Robert Lehr joined a Dusseldorf resistance group consisting of multiple prominent individuals of the Weimar Era including former Union Secretary Karl Arnold and evangelical lawyer Franz Etzel.
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Robert Lehr returned to politics immediately following the war, helping to establish the CDU in 1945.
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Robert Lehr was named the governor of the North Rhine-Westphalia province by occupying British troops.
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Robert Lehr belonged to the German Bundestag from 1949 until 1953.
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Robert Lehr died on 13 October 1956 at the age of 73 in Dusseldorf.