Axel Vulpius

Axel Vulpius, 1926–2023, studied law at the universities of East Berlin, Freiburg and Bonn from 1947 onwards. After completing his doctorate under Wilhelm Grewe, he became a federal civil servant, initially in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, and from 1969 until his retirement in 1991 in the Federal Ministry of Education and Science. After that, Axel Vulpius worked for five years as an advisor on church matters for the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. For this ministry, he negotiated the state-church agreements with the six Protestant churches in Saxony-Anhalt, with the Catholic Church and with the Jewish community.