Background
Bucerius was born in Westphalia, and studied law in Freiburg, Berlin, and Hamburg.
Bucerius was born in Westphalia, and studied law in Freiburg, Berlin, and Hamburg.
He is the namesake of the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and of the Bucerius Kunst Forum, an art gallery. Upon completion of his university studies, he was named a judge in Kiel. With the Allied victory in World World War II, Bucerius became a politician and journalist.
The British tasked him with the reorganization of the senate in Hamburg.
In 1949 he was elected as a deputy to the first post-war Bundestag. In 1946, with Lovis H. Lorenz, Richard Tüngel, and Ewald Schmidt di Simoni he created Die Zeit, with which they hoped to found a great newspaper for the north of Germany.
Even though the emblem of Bremen was placed on its cover by way of a logo, the newspaper"s city of origin was Hamburg. Hamburg refused the use of its city arms for the publication, and so those of another nearby municipality were used instead.
Bucerius for his part became a lawyer, defending numerous Jewish clients.
A member of the Christian Democratic Union, he retained his seat until 1962.