Kay Nehm

Participating Kay ( born May 4, 1941 in Flensburg ) is a German jurist. As the successor of Alexander von Stahl he was on 7 February 1994 to 31 May 2006, Federal Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Youth

His father was Eduard Participants 1961-1973 Attorney General of the State of Schleswig -Holstein. Kay participants completed the military service (today he is a major in the reserve) and then studied from 1964 to 1968 in Munich, Freiburg and Kiel. After clerkship and second state examination three years later in 1972 he was a prosecutor in Kiel, from there but seconded back in 1973 as a research assistant to the Attorney General. In 1978 he moved to the Federal Constitutional Court, where he was an employee of Judge Walter Rudi wall.

Public prosecutor

1980 participants returned to the Attorney General and was initially promoted to chief prosecutor. The promotion to Attorney followed in 1988. Starting in 1991, he was a judge on the 4th Criminal Senate of the Bundesgerichtshof. Just three years later he was appointed to the Federal Attorney General and thus head of the Attorney General.

The non-party participant is married and has one daughter.

In his office, he often represented politically unpopular, legally - stringent decisions. So he asked about in the prosecution of terrorist offenses that U.S. services their sources and evidence against its authority fully disclose. Only then is evidence of one to the detriment of the accused was possible, what the Court confirmed.

Retirement

Participating retired on 31 May 2006. His successor was Monika Harms.

Participating Kay is currently the President of the German Academy of Transportation Science eV The federal government against alcohol and drugs in road traffic awarded him in 1998 the Senator -Lothar - Danner Medal.

Since 2010 he has been president of the German traffic court day. At the German Traffic Court 2010 Kay participants proposed a new legal category - the lesson. This will in future vehicle owners face when in a traffic violation refuse to electronic monitoring systems and the driver can not be determined. Participants also demanded under the Transport Judgment Day 2013 stricter controls for supposed " bully cyclists ", which is why, inter alia, the time participants a " populist bully cyclists attack" accused.

Criticism

Its suitability as president of the German traffic court day is called into question, as he unilaterally positions himself as a proponent of automobile traffic and argues against cyclists. He claimed, hardly a cyclist abiding by the traffic rules, but could support this "personal statistics" only one and struck also that the motor vehicle driver bear the main responsibility for about 60 percent of accidents involving bicycles with cars. He is not fulfilled according to its critics, the necessary impartiality for the office of President of the traffic court day.

Works (excerpt)

• With impunity crimes? To the rescue of unconstitutional criminal laws by dispensing with punishment (Lecture 17 February 1997 ), Heidelberg 1999. ISBN 3-8114-9599-2.
• The jurisdiction of the Attorney General for the prosecution of extremist individual perpetrators (Lecture on 8 May 2001 ), Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48632-0.
• The intelligence requirement of separation and the new security architecture. In: NJW. 2004, pp. 3289-3295.