Udo Di Fabio

Udo Di Fabio ( born March 26, 1954 in Walsum, today the municipality of Duisburg ) is a German jurist and was from 1999 until December 2011, judges of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Life

Di Fabio was born in 1954 in Duisburg as a descendant of Italian immigrants, his grandfather was a steelworker at Thyssen. Di Fabio was from 1970 to 1980 worked as a civil servant in the central service in Dinslaken, before 1985, the second legal state examination completed. From 1985 to 1986 he was a judge at a preliminary ruling in Duisburg. In 1987 he received his doctorate at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University in Bonn with a dissertation on legal protection in parliamentary procedure a doctorate in law and in 1990 in Duisburg with a thesis on the subject of open discourse and Closed Systems in Social Sciences.

From 1986 to 1990, Di Fabio Researcher at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Bonn from 1990 to 1993 at the same institute Scientific Assistant. In 1993, Di Fabio habilitated in Bonn with a dissertation on risk decisions in the rule of law. In May 1993, he accepted an appointment as a professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, in November of the same year a further offer of a professorship at the University of Trier.

In 1997 he was appointed professor at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich, in 2003 such at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University in Bonn, where he teaches since the Institute for Public Law (Department of State law). From December 16th 1999 to December 19th 2011 Di Fabio belonged to the proposal of the CDU in the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Di Fabio is associate editor of the journal Archives of public law. Since 2007 he has been a board member of the Community Foundation Rhine district and the Bonn Law Journal.

He is married, has four children and lives with his family in Bonn.

Work and influence

In his far -reaching on issues of legal publication " The culture of freedom " reflected Di Fabio the status quo and future development prospects of the German society for the conductance of the Basic Law on the one hand and on the implications of the globalization process on the other. He relies on the continued existence of different cultures and the plurality of nation-states as identity communities. The western canon which was grown in the Age of Enlightenment from its specific ancient and Judeo-Christian roots, justifies no absolute claim and had approached carry with caution and willingness to reflect on other grown cultures.

For interested in self-preservation and the continuance of their conductances nation states but not to let the sources of their culture was dry. Two things to keep Di Fabio necessary: firstly, the revitalization bond -creating cultural goods and institutions, on the other, and in connection with the provision for sufficient progeny. For where future launchers missing, culture-related values ​​can not survive. As a consequence, Di Fabio calls for a social reorientation away from the flat, often short-winded self-realization ideas and practices towards sustainable work and sublatedness in social, especially family ties. In this sense, see also religious communities as mediators of grown culture and bond with him positive consideration.

Thus the kulturalen main aspects are named, the Di Fabio a common concept of freedom ( ensuring physical and personal integrity, freedom of expression and conscience, freedom of property as a fundamental right and institution, market economy ) begotten. The model is completed by performance justice in the sense of classical bourgeois power thought: "Everyone should take care in the paths of moral decency and justice itself that he achieved what is due to him, and it is to him what he achieved thus lawful. "

Controversial the book was mainly because the opinion in favor of the family with children as a role model. While a number of critics in a conservative throwback to the early days of the Federal Republic of Germany saw or di Fabio labeling of German culture of the 19th century criticized as a non -Atlantic or " non-Western culture," saw other reviewers in the opinion of Di Fabio's one on the autonomy of modernity concept based which children and family conceive freedom as profit.

2009 attracted Di Fabio by contributing for the ceremony to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the Solinger Tageblatt attention, in which he demanded that end up too far -reaching anonymity in the network and in particular that would be identifiable for their consumers perpetrating public sources on the internet.

After the end of the maximum twelve-year period for constitutional judges, which expired in December 2011 for Di Fabio, he is for two lectures hold the Mercator professorship at the University of Duisburg -Essen. He is also a professor at the Institute for Public Law (Department of Constitutional Law ) at the University of Bonn.

Di Fabio has examined the legal boundaries of a monetary and economic union on behalf of the Foundation family. On 2 June 2013, the FAZ wrote:

" If the European Central Bank ( ECB) violated the prohibition on state funding, the Federal Constitutional Court in the extreme case, the Federal Government and the Bundestag must commit to the exit from the monetary union. [ ... ] The Karlsruhe court possessed indeed " no procedural lever " to make the ECB Target [ ... ]. Therefore, it should not even be referred to the European Court of Justice in the case, but should decide in apparent excesses of. Then the judges could at least " find declaratory " the violation. "

Di Fabio wrote the preface to a book published in mid-2013 the Historic Professor Dominik Geppert. The book is called A Europe that does not exist. The explosive force of the Euro

Awards / Honors

• 2005 Di Fabio was "reformers of 2005, " the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAS ) and the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy for his book " The Culture of Freedom".
• 2011 Di Fabio got the Mercator Professorship at the University of Duisburg -Essen.
• 2011 Di Fabio received the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany.