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{{Short description|German politician and journalist}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|image = Gerd Bucerius.jpg
|imagesize = 170px
|alt = A black and white face-photo of an older man
|caption = Gerd Bucerius
| office = Member of the [[Bundestag]]
| term_start = 7 September 1949
| term_end = 22 March 1962
|birth_date = 19 May 1906
|birth_place = [[Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia|Hamm]], [[German Empire]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|9|29|1906|5|19|df=y}}
|death_place =
|nationality = German
|party = [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]]
|residence = Hamburg
|alma_mater = University of Berlin<br/>University of Hamburg
|occupation = Journalist, judge, editor
}}

'''Gerd Bucerius''' (19 May 1906 – 29 September 1995)<ref name="Independent">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-gerd-bucerius-1575593.html|title=OBITUARY: Gerd Bucerius|author=David Childs|work=[[The Independent]]|date=1 October 1995}}</ref> was a German politician, publisher and journalist, one of the founding members of ''[[Die Zeit]]''. He is the namesake of the [[Bucerius Law School]] in Hamburg and of the Bucerius Kunst Forum, an art gallery.

==Life and career==
Bucerius was born in [[Westphalia]], and studied law in Hamburg.<ref name="Independent"/> Upon completion of his studies, he was named a [[judge]] in Kiel and Flensburg.<ref name="Independent"/> With the rise to power of the [[Nazi Party|Nazis]] in 1933, he was unable to continue his work as a judge.<ref name="Independent"/> His first wife, a [[Judaism|Jew]], took refuge in the United Kingdom.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} Bucerius remained a lawyer, defending numerous Jewish clients and others who were targeted under the Nazi regime.<ref name="Independent"/>

With the Allied victory in [[World War II]], Bucerius became a politician and journalist.<ref name="Independent"/> He was a founding member of the [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany]] (CDU) in 1945.<ref name="Independent"/> The British tasked him with the reorganization of the [[Senate of Hamburg|senate in Hamburg]]; in 1949 he was elected as a deputy to the first post-war [[Bundestag]] as a member of the CDU.<ref name="Independent"/> He retained his seat until 1962.<ref name="Independent"/> 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's villa overlooking [[Lake Maggiore]] in Switzerland, the [[Ebelin Bucerius House]], was designed by the modernist architect [[Richard Neutra]], and named for Bucerius's second wife, Ebelin. It was constructed between 1962 and 1966.<ref name=Hartford>Marta Herford: Richard Neutra in Europe: [http://marta-herford.de/index.php/richard-neutra-in-europe-buildings-and-projects-1960-1970-2/?lang=en Marta Herford: Richard Neutra in Europe] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117082913/http://marta-herford.de/index.php/richard-neutra-in-europe-buildings-and-projects-1960-1970-2/?lang=en |date=2016-11-17 }}, accessdate: November 16, 2016</ref>

==Honors and awards==
Bucerius is considered an important benefactor to Hamburg; upon the centenary of his birth, chancellor [[Helmut Schmidt]] called him among the most influential citizens of the city. His large fortune was handed over to the [[ZEIT-Stiftung|ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius]] which Bucerius had created in 1971. The funds held by this foundation are used for the promotion of scientific, educational, cultural and artistic projects; the [[Bucerius Law School]] and the [[Bucerius Kunst Forum]] are its most important projects. In 2001, the [[Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society]] at the [[University of Haifa]] was established by the [[ZEIT-Stiftung|ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius]] and its chairman, [[Manfred Lahnstein|Professor Dres. h.c. Manfred Lahnstein]].<ref>[http://www.uni-haifa.de/pdf/haifa_3_01.pdf Newsletter der Universität Haifa, 03/2001, p. 3, in German]</ref>

In 1986 Bucerius was given the [[List of Honorary Citizens of Hamburg|Honorary Citizenship of Hamburg]].<ref>{{Citation |publisher=[[Government of Hamburg#Ministries|State Chancellery]] |url=http://www.hamburg.de/ehrenbuerger/ |title=Hamburgische Ehrenbürger |access-date=2008-08-13|language=de}}</ref>

==Other activities==
In 1983, Bucerius became a member of the advisory board of the [[Bertelsmann Stiftung]] and was an honorary member since 1993.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/about-us/who-we-are/chronicle|title=Chronicle|publisher=Bertelsmann Stiftung|date=May 21, 2020|access-date=May 22, 2020|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611175110/https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/about-us/who-we-are/chronicle|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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