Hans-Joachim Jentsch

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Hans-Joachim Jentsch (* 20th September 1937 in Fürstenwalde / Spree , † 28. March 2021 ) was a German politician of the CDU . From 1982 to 1985 he was Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden , from 1990 to 1994 Minister of Justice in Thuringia and from 1996 to 2005 judge of the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life

After the Second State Exam in 1966, Jentsch was in Marburg with a thesis on the assessment of summary executions by international law doctorate . In the same year he was admitted to the bar and worked in Wiesbaden. In 1977 he was also appointed as a notary . Both approvals were suspended while he was mayor, minister and constitutional judge. Hans-Joachim Jentsch was married, had a grown daughter and last lived in Wiesbaden. He died in March 2021 at the age of 83.

MP

From 1976 to 1982 Jentsch was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the state parliament in Hesse .

Public Offices

In 1982 Jentsch was elected Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden by the city council. After the Hessian municipal elections in 1985, he was recalled prematurely from office by the city council due to a changed majority.

After reunification he served the Free State of Thuringia from 1990 to 1994 as Minister of Justice and from 1995 to 1996 as a part-time member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court.

Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court

From May 3, 1996 until his retirement on September 30, 2005, he was a member of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court and most recently a rapporteur. at party ban - and the Verification process , and in methods of the party and the right to vote . His successor in office was Herbert Landau . He was considered the “most political” judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of his time.

As rapporteur, he was in charge of, among other things, the decision on the NPD prohibition proceedings of March 18, 2003, the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of July 27, 2004 on the junior professorship and the dissolution of the 15th German Bundestag by placing the vote of confidence on August 25, 2005 ( " Question of trust II ") involved. In the controversial headscarf ruling, Jentsch belonged to the minority and voted with Di Fabio and Mellinghoff as a result of the school's requirement of neutrality and the headscarf as a political symbol against the constitutional complaint of the teacher and thus in favor of the Baden-Württemberg High School Office. In the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of August 25, 2005 to dissolve the 15th German Bundestag, he did not represent the opinion of the majority of the Senate; the decision was made with seven to one votes. Jentsch justified his special vote with the fact that the dissolution of the Bundestag through a “constructed mistrust” would lead to a right of the Bundestag to dissolve itself, which is deliberately not provided for in the Basic Law , if the justification is based solely on the Chancellor's assessment of the situation.

From October 1994 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena ; In September 2004 the Thuringian Minister of Education appointed him honorary professor.

Honors

In July 2002 the Faculty of Law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena awarded him an honorary doctorate . He was awarded an honorary doctorate "for his academic achievements in the field of constitutional law and his special services to the community and the legal and constitutional development in Germany". He received the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon in September 2005.

By resolution of November 18, 2006, he was made honorary citizen of the city of Wiesbaden.

The Prime Minister of Hesse , Volker Bouffier , awarded Hans-Joachim Jentsch the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal on November 5, 2010 for services to German unity .

From 2013 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Point Alpha Foundation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Politician and constitutional judge Jentsch died , zeit.de, published and accessed on March 29, 2021.
  2. ↑ A portrait of the eight judges of the Second Senate , Deutsche Welle, August 25, 2005
  3. ↑ Az. 2 BvB 1/01 BVerfGE 104, 370 = NJW 2002, 1187
  4. ↑ Az. 2 BvF 2/02 BVerfGE 111, 226 = NJW 2004, 2803 = NVwZ 2004, 1483.
  5. ↑ Az. 2 BVE 4/05 BVerfGE 114, 121 = NJW 2005, 2669 = DVBl 2005, 1310 = JuS 2006, 75.
  6. ↑ Communication from the University of Jena from July 4, 2004 on the award of an honorary doctorate
  7. ^ Message from the city of Wiesbaden on the award of honorary citizenship
  8. ↑ Michael Bußer: Newsletter of the Hessian state government from November 5, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Jentsch, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag and judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (1996-2005)
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenwalde / Spree
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2021