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Paul Leverkuehn
PAUL LEVERKUEHN (July 31, 1893 - March 1, 1960) was a German lawyer and a member of the German political party CDU (Christian Democratic Union).
Born in Lübeck, he studied law at the Universities ...view morePAUL LEVERKUEHN (July 31, 1893 - March 1, 1960) was a German lawyer and a member of the German political party CDU (Christian Democratic Union).
Born in Lübeck, he studied law at the Universities of Edinburgh, Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, Königsberg and Göttingen. During World War I the Foreign Office assigned him as a member of the secret delegation Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter in the Turkish-Persian border area.
After the end of WWI, he completed his legal internship in his hometown of Lübeck and received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1922. He spent the next eight years in various positions in the United States before settling back in Germany in 1930 as a lawyer.
In 1939 he was briefly drafted into the Wehrmacht before the Foreign Office assigned him to act as consul in Persia. From 1941-1944 Leverkuehn was Head of the German Defense in Istanbul.
Following the end of WWII, Leverkuehn worked as a lawyer in Hamburg, defending various German WWII officers. He was elected as President of the European Union Germany in May 1954; but had to resign from the position in September due to a serious car accident.
He was president of the Institute for Asian Studies in Hamburg from 1957 until his death in 1960.view less