Dimitris Tsatsos

Dimitris Th Tsatsos (Greek Δημήτρης Θ Τσάτσος, born May 5, 1933, Athens, . † April 24, 2010 ibid ), was a Greek jurist and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the son of the politician and jurist Themistocles Tsatsos (1906-1971) and a nephew of the former President Konstantinos Tsatsos.

Life

After studying law at the University of Athens and Heidelberg made ​​the promotion and the first doctorate at the University of Athens. In 1968, Dimitris Tsatsos under the Greek military dictatorship not a lecture permit is available. Therefore He habilitated in 1968 for a second time at the Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Bonn. He taught there until 1974 as a professor. From 1974 to 1980 Tsatsos was a professor of constitutional law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During this time he became politically active as a member of the first Nachdiktaturparlaments. From 1980 to 1989 he was Chair of Constitutional Law at the Panteion University of Athens. At the same time he taught as a professor of German and International Constitutional Law at the University of Hagen. From 1991 to 1997, he was Director of the Institute for German and European legal party in Dusseldorf.

1994-2004 Tsatsos was a member of the European Parliament in the Group of the Party of European Socialists. He was a doctor father of former national chairman of the FDP, Guido Westerwelle.

Awards

Tsatsos was an honorary citizen of Skiathos, Hersonissos and Neapolis ( Crete).