Theodor Blank (born September 19, 1905 in Elz an der Lahn; died May 14, 1972 in Bonn) was a German politician of the CDU. He was one of the founders of the CDU in 1945, when World War II had ended. September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... Bonn is a city in Germany (19th largest), in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the north of the Siebengebirge. ... This article needs cleanup. ...
From 1949 to 1972 he was a member of the German Bundestag, in which he served from 1965 to 1969 as deputy chief of CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion.
He served as the Defence Minister of Germany from 1955 to 1956 and as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 1957 to 1965.
Blank concludes that Shakespeare identified and highlighted distinctions, legal as well as moral, which reflected then-contemporary mores, reinforced his own beliefs and aspirations, and influenced the further development of international law.
Blank draws out Shakespeare’s distinctions between international and internal conflicts via an exploration of Shakespeare’s use of precise language, his selection of locales and attribution of behavioral traits in setting the stage for conflicts of each type.
As Blank ably argues, Shakespeare’s distinct presentations of international and internal conflicts – their players, their motivations, their results – served to promote a code of conduct which links the medieval laws of just war to the development of modern humanitarian and international law.
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