Phi Delta Phi

Phi Delta Phi is an international scientific legal fraternity in the form of an Honor Society (English Honor Society ).

Establishment, purpose and character

The Association was founded on 13 December 1869 by four students at the University of Michigan. It is the second oldest legal organization in the United States, which still exists today. Specifically, it was established six months after the Ohio Bar Association and nine years before the American Bar Association.

As Honor Society Phi Delta Phi is represented in the U.S. alone to graduate schools and only takes law students on. The association is apolitical of their orientation and not religious and clearly focused their activities on the service to the community and the education of its members.

The aim of the association is "to promote a higher standard of professional ethics and culture of this and other law schools and the entire profession ." The members want to counter the negative image of lawyers in society and continued professional development and support each other.

With students connections from the German-speaking world and the classic American Fraternities has a Honor Society as Phi Delta Phi little in common: There are both women and men is recorded, it can not find pubs instead and there is no corporation house (as in normal American Fraternities and German compounds often the case). However, is similar to fraternities in addition to the symbolism of colors, slogan or motto and a coat of arms and the desired principle of life-long membership, but not in the form of a mandatory federal life.

Groups, members and organization

There are over 130 groups called Inns, at law schools in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Poland and Germany. The Inns are named in each establishment after a major lawyers who can serve as role models to the members professionally and ethically. In addition to many federal judges and senators in the United States, the first German Inn on 30 October 2006, founded at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg by German President Roman Herzog as " Roman Herzog Inn ". On 3 October 2008, the second German Inn at the University of Tübingen has formed, which has for Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker assumed the name sponsorship. An association of members and alumni of the Tübingen Inns around since 2011, the magazine law school exams & out. A third German Inn at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich has been founded in 2013. As namesake was the former President of the Federal Constitutional Court Hans -Jürgen Papier, are obtained. A fourth Inn was founded in 2013 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, for which Michael Hoffmann- Becking took over the sponsorship name.

In the Inns exists as a criterion for admission, a minimum grade point average, which limits the group of candidates for membership on the upper third.

In total, over 200,000 members have been added since the founding of the Student Union. Assign this is a lifetime membership, so that the groups of the Union represent an active network between alumni and students, and between users and students of law. In addition to the active ( student ) members and honorary members are admitted, which no longer are themselves of significant legal status, however, active students.

During the over 130 years of existence no other fraternity has produced so many elected officials in the United States. It can be found among the members of Phi Delta Phi several U.S. presidents, countless judges of the Supreme Court (currently three of the nine justices members), senators, congressmen and influential members of the legal matter.

The new members will be sworn in an induction ceremony ( the "ritual" ). They are first introduced by the name " Esquire" the " Bench" ( this includes the " Chancellor " as chairman and 4 other " Bencher " (Assessor ) ). Then are presented the new members the ideals of the association, which confirm those by oath.

In organizational terms and in the names and titles to Phi Delta Phi reject it on to an Anglo-Saxon court:

  • A local group ( Inn) is headed by a " master ". He is assisted by a number of " Officer" to the side.
  • Several Inns are brought together in a " Province", which is a " Province President", usually an alumni member out.
  • All Provinces is the "Council" before. He leads the headquarters in Washington.
  • For disputes within the connection of the " Court of Appeal " is configured.

Every two years, representatives of all groups to a meeting ( Convention ), to determine the activities of the Students' Association and control.

Well-known members

Known members are and were:

U.S. President

Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court

Other Americans

German members

  • Manfred W. Balz, former board member of Deutsche Telekom
  • Gerd Becht, board member of the German Bahn AG
  • Bernhard Beck, Board Member and Director of EnBW Energie Baden- Württemberg AG
  • Rudolf Böhmler, board member of the German Federal Bank, State Secretary
  • Herta Däubler -Gmelin, Federal Minister of Justice 1998-2002
  • Jörg Eisele, German jurist and professor at the University of Konstanz
  • Dieter Engels, President of the Federal Court
  • Michael Freytag, retired senator, Chairman of the Board of SCHUFA
  • Heiner Geissler, Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health 1982-1985
  • Tanja patron, Minister A.D. for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport of the State of Baden- Württemberg
  • Tilman Gotte, Honorary President of the Federal Chamber of Notaries
  • Mathias Habersack, German jurist and professor at the Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich
  • Hans Jochen Henke, State Secretary, MP retired, former Mayor of the city of Ludwigsburg
  • Roman Herzog, German president A.D.
  • Michael Hoffmann- Becking, German jurist and member of various supervisory boards
  • Christine Hohmann- Dennhardt, Federal Constitutional Court Judge Retired, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG
  • Stefan Kaufmann, member of the Bundestag
  • Klaus Kinkel, German politician (FDP ), Vice- Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1993-1998 ), Minister of Justice 1991-1992
  • Kurt W. Liedtke, former Managing Director of Robert Bosch GmbH, Chairman of the Trustees of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
  • Reinhard Löffler, economic policy spokesman of the CDU faction in the parliament, Director of the IBM
  • Rudolf Mellinghoff, retired federal judge, president of the Federal
  • Karsten Schmidt, corporate lawyer and president of the Bucerius Law School
  • Fritz Oesterle, Former. Chairman of the Management Board of Celesio AG, British Honorary Consul of Baden- Württemberg
  • Hans -Jürgen Papier, German constitutional law scholars, President of the Federal Constitutional Court aD
  • Alexander Proelß, German jurist and professor of public law with a focus on maritime law
  • Claus Roxin, German legal scholar
  • Gottfried Schiemann, German legal scholar
  • Nils Schmid, state chairman of the SPD, State Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs and Deputy. Prime Minister of Baden- Württemberg
  • Manfred Schmitz- Emperor, member of the L-Bank
  • Wolfgang Schuster, former Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
  • Regine Stachelhaus, member of the E.ON AG
  • Rolf Stürner, author and professor at the University of Freiburg, Former Judge, Court of Appeals Stuggart
  • Theo Waigel, Federal Minister of Finance 1989-1998
  • Richard von Weizsäcker, Federal President A.D.
  • Corinna Werwigk - Hertneck, Minister of Justice A.D. the State of Baden -Württemberg, a lawyer in Stuttgart
  • Harm Peter Westermann, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tübingen
  • Stefan Wolf, CEO of ElringKlinger AG

Symbols of the union

The colors of the association are red, blue and gold. They stand for courage, loyalty and dignity. The motto of the Association is "Friends of Justice and Wisdom ." The coat of arms shows a golden owl in the upper blue field, including a skull in front of cross bones on a red background, the latter in the tradition founded in 1832 Elite connection at Yale University by the name of Skull & Bones, who also repeatedly for conspiracy theories about the must serve Ostküstenestablishment. The trim of the crest forms a Justitia with three golden crowns.

Tableround Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Lewis F. Powell, Jr. William Rehnquist John B. Anderson John Danforth Ken Starr Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt Stefan Kaufmann (politician) Federal Finance Court of Germany
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