Paul Luchtenberg

[1] After completing a PhD in Philosophy under Erich Becher, he began a probation year, teaching in a grammar school.

In addition, he qualified to be a professor at the University of Cologne in 1920, where he was a student of Max Scheler, whose material value-ethics he wanted to apply in his teaching.

In 1936, he was dismissed, (later than many others including Victor Klemperer and Richard Seyfert) in implementation of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, after long being protected by the Culture Minister for Saxony, Wilhelm Hartnecke.

Luchtenberg was a member of the German Bundestag from October 30, 1950, when he succeeded Friedrich Middelhauve as FDP state chairman, until the end of the first legislative period.

He was a member of the Bundestag again from September 18, 1954, when he succeeded Willi Weyer as Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, until April 9, 1956.