Hugo Preuss
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Hugo Preuss (28 October 1860 - 9 October 1925) was a German lawyer and liberal politician, regarded as the father of the German constitution of the Weimar Republic (1919).
He was the state secretary of home affairs during the revolutionary cabinet of 1918 and 1919. His ideas about the constitution were influenced by the French social scientist Robert Redslob. In 1919 he became Minister of the Interior.
Due to Hugo Preuß's Jewish heritage, the Nazi party used this as a major attack on the Weimar Republic to say that it was authored by a Jew, and inherently "un-German".
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