Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig

Edzard Schmidt- Jortzig ( born October 8, 1941 in Berlin ) is an Emeritus Professor of Public Law. As FDP he was a member from 1996 to 1998 Minister of Justice.

Career

After graduation in 1961 at the Johanneum in Lüneburg Schmidt- Jortzig graduated in law at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Bonn, the University of Lausanne and the Christian-Albrechts -University of Kiel. In 1962 he became a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn. In 1966 he was the First State Exam in 1969 was followed by the state exam and the Doctorate in law .. He then worked as a municipal lawyer and joined in 1970 as a research assistant at the Institute for International Law at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen, where in 1976 he completed his habilitation in and was a lecturer.

In 1977 he was appointed professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In 1984, he followed the call of the Christian -Albrechts- University at the Department of Public Law. From 1983 to 1989 he was a judge in the second major and minor office on Higher Administrative Court of Lüneburg, 1989-1990 at the Schleswig- Holstein Higher Administrative Court and from 1992 to 1994 at the Constitutional Court of Saxony.

He was co-editor of the Journal of Public Law in Northern Germany ( NordÖR ). He was the father of Dr. Gert Hoffmann and held as Dean delivered the eulogy for Klaus of Groeben with his honorary doctorate in Kiel.

Since 1968, he is married to Marion née von Arnim; from the marriage were born four children.

Policy and honorary positions

Since 1982 member of the FDP, he moved in 1994 over the national list of Schleswig- Holstein in the German Bundestag. Over the entire 14th legislative period, he headed the working group domestic and legal policy of the FDP parliamentary group.

From 1987 to 1990 he worked in the Government Commission to prevent and combat violence. 1989/90, he advised the members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia. Immediately after the change in the GDR, he taught in the winter semester 1990/91 at the University of Rostock. From 1991 to 1993 he participated in the constitutional deliberations in Poland and Estonia. From 1991 to 1994 he sat in the Enquete Commission " constitutional reform " Rhineland- Palatinate and Thuringia in the Constitutional Commission. On January 17, 1996, he was appointed as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet Kohl V. After the 1998 election, he resigned from the government on 26 October 1998. From 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the Parliamentary Control Commission and the Commission of Inquiry " Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine". After retiring from the Bundestag in 2002, he worked from 2003 to 2004 in the Federalism Commission.

From 1997 to 2004 he was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Since 11 April 2008 he has been chairman of the new German Ethics Council.

From 2007 to 2009, he helped in Rostock in the ( failed ) build the private Hanseatic University.

Since 1999 he has been on the advisory board Holsteiner study price of the Corps Holsatia Kiel.

Publications

  • Thomas Dehler as a liberal right-wing politicians, in: Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Thomas Dehler and his policies, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87584-721-0, pages 91-96.
  • Interview of Germany Radio 5 July 2002 for dealing with Stasi files
  • Law and politics. Cologne 2007
  • Legal aspects of biomedicine. Berlin 2003
  • Rights problems in the integration of sovereignty on multi-level systems. Cologne 2001
  • 40 exams from the Administrative Law, 6th edition. Neuwied 1999
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