10 Facts About Rudolf Katz

Rudolf Katz was Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

Rudolf Katz began to study law at the University of Kiel in 1913, but volunteered for the German Army in World War I Katz served as a Lieutenant and was wounded several times, he finished his studies in 1919 and gained his doctorate in 1920.

Rudolf Katz joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1920 and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in 1924.

Rudolf Katz was elected a member of the city council of Altona in 1929 and became its chairman in 1932.

Rudolf Katz worked as a lawyer and notary in Altona.

Rudolf Katz pleaded for communist defendants in the aftermath of the Altona Bloody Sunday of July 1932.

Rudolf Katz was a director of the Rand School of Social Science in New York and of The New Leader newspaper, he was active in the German Labour Delegation, part of the American Federation of Labor, and the "German-American Council for the Liberation of Germany from Nazism".

In July 1946 Rudolf Katz returned to Germany along with Max Brauer and became Minister of Justice and Education in the State of Schleswig-Holstein.

In 1951 Rudolf Katz became the Chairman of the second Senate and Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

Rudolf Katz was elected a member of the executive board of the International Commission of Jurists at the New Delhi Congress in 1959.