Richard Jaeger

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Richard Jaeger (16 February 1913^[1] – 15 May 1998^[2]) was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Under Ludwig Erhard's second ministry, he was Minister of Justice (26 October 1965 – 1 December 1966)

From 1933, Jaeger was a member of Hitler's paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA),^[3] and was a member of the Wehrmacht from 1939-1945.^[4] From 1949 to 1980 Jaeger was a member of German Bundestag.^[5] He prominently supported the reintroduction of the death penalty in the 1960s, despite in the 1950s rallying against it and advocating for pardoning Nazi war criminals sentenced to death.^[6] From 1972 to 1974, Jaeger was President of the European Documentation and Information Centre (CEDI).^{[citation needed]}

He was also President of the German Atlantic Society from 1957-90 and Head of the German Delegation to the UNCHR from 1984-90.^[7] He was married and had six children.