Johann Kriegler

Johann Christiaan Kriegler ( born November 29, 1932 in Pretoria) is a South African lawyer. He was from 1994 to 2003 Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.

Education and professional career

His school education was Kriegler at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg. Once he had his degree there in 1949, he attended for two years from the Military Academy of South Africa before taking up the study of law at the University of Pretoria. 1954 Bachelor of Arts, where he was awarded. He then continued his studies at the University of South Africa and acquired there in 1958 with a Bachelor of Laws. Meanwhile, he worked as a research associate judge. 1959 Kriegler was admitted as a lawyer at the Bar Association in Johannesburg, where he practiced for 25 years. He participated in numerous political processes in part and defended both opponents of apartheid, Breyten Breytenbach, such as, as well as persons who benefited from the system. His clients included some of the founders of the Inkatha Freedom Party Mangosuthu Buthelezi and later Minister of the Interior of South Africa, the leader of the extreme right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugene Terre'Blanche Buren grouping and Desmond Tutu. He also became active in the Bar Association of Johannesburg and was its chairman. 1978 was one of the founders of the Kriegler Legal Resources Centre and in 1981 was involved in the founding of the NGO Lawyers for Human Rights. From 1976 he worked again as a judge on the Transvaal Provincial Division at the time before he was appointed there in 1984 on the site of a full-time judge. In 1993 he moved for one year as a judge to the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa before 1994 took over the chairmanship of the Independent Electoral Commission. From this he went after it had come between the Commissioners and the Government several times to disputes over the financing of the Commission, on 27 January 1999. Previously, he had been appointed by Nelson Mandela to the judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa 1994. In this position, Kriegler dedicated for the promotion of democracy. So he took about as a member of a delegation of the International Commission of Jurists, among other numerous trips to Palestine, Malawi and Uganda in part. He also taught as part of the development program of the United Nations, among other lawyers in Namibia and Hong Kong. December 31, 2002 Kriegler different than full-time judge of the Constitutional Court, but was two more years as a judge on time. He also worked as an election observer about Afghanistan, East Timor and Iraq.

Others

Kriegler is married, father of six children and has twelve grandchildren. He holds an associate professor lectures at the University of Pretoria.

Awards and Memberships (Selection)

• Honorary Member of the Bar of Johannesburg
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Nelson Mandela Children 's Fund
• Honorary Member of Gray 's Inn

Publications (selection )

• Suid Afrikaanse - strafproses. Butterworths, Durban 1993, ISBN 978-0-409-03275-8.
• The Constitutional Court of South Africa. In: Cornell international law journal. 36 (2003), No. 2, ISSN 0010-8812, pp. 361-379.
• Democratic reform in Africa. In: Muna Ndulo (ed.): Democratic reform in Africa: its impact on governance & poverty alleviation. Ohio University Press, Athens 2006, ISBN 978-0-8214-1721-8, pp. 11-16.