Adolf Süsterhenn (1905–1974) was aGerman constitutional lawyer and politician. He worked on the state constitution forRhineland-Palatinate and was on theParlamentarischer Rat, which drafted theBasic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. He was born on 31 May 1905 inCologne and was Minister for Culture and Justice in Rhineland-Palatinate between 1946 and 1951 forChristian Democratic Union of Germany.[1] He also served on theEuropean Commission of Human Rights from 1954 to 1973.[2] He died inCologne on 24 November 1974 at the age of 69.
Süsterhenn, along withFranz-Josef Wuermeling, had been one of the leading advocates of continuing the criminalization of homosexuality in West Germany according to the 1935 version ofParagraph 175 introduced under Nazism. In 1968, he relaxed his stance on the issue, commenting that many Catholic moral theologians no longer saw homosexuality as something that must be punished by the state.[3]
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