Oliver Tolmein

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Oliver Tolmein (born December 21, 1961 in Cologne ) is a German author , journalist and lawyer active in the areas of social law (especially disability and medical law ), criminal law and anti-discrimination law . In a nine-year legal dispute before the Federal Administrative Court, he finally enforced the right of patients to grow cannabis as medicine themselves if the state does not allow other access to medicinal hemp. During the COVID-19 pandemic , he filed a constitutional complaint about inaction by the legislature to protect people from disabilities from discrimination in the course of triage concepts. The Federal Constitutional Court rejected the urgent application in an interim decision, but announced that it would have to carefully examine the legal questions raised in the main proceedings. Tolmein is one of the founding partners of the national law firm Menschen undrechte . He became known through numerous publications on bioethics , left-wing politics and politically motivated extremism , especially on the RAF .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1979, Tolmein completed a voluntary social year in a rehabilitation facility for young people who had committed criminal offenses. From 1980 to 1983 he worked as an assistant director at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . Afterwards, Tolmein worked mainly as a journalist. He was one of the founding editors of the Öko-Test magazine, then switched to taz as a parliamentary correspondent and later as an editor for concrete ; In 1994/95 he was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Junge Welt .

He also works as a freelance writer for SWR (television), WDR (radio and television), DLF , taz, FAZ , for concrete and Jungle World . In 1999 he completed his law studies, which began in 1995, at the University of Hamburg as a scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and worked there as a research assistant and lecturer. In 2000 he received a DAAD scholarship for international human rights from the European Academy of Law in Florence .

In his dissertation published in 2004 on the subject of the right to self-determination for those unable to consent? The discontinuation of artificial nutrition in patients in the "vegetative state" in a comparative law perspective at the Institute for Criminal Sciences at the University of Hamburg, Tolmein critically examines the case law of the Federal Court of Justice on euthanasia and argues against deregulating the protection of life for people who are unable to consent. From 2016 to 2018 he was a member of the board of the German Society for Palliative Medicine . He is still the spokesman for the Legal Professions Section.

Tolmein lives in Hamburg . He is married to the designated general director of the Münster Theater, Katharina Kost-Tolmein, with whom he has a daughter. He is also the father of twin boys.

Awards

  • 2001: Prize winner "Medicine and Conscience" of the IPPNW (radio coverage of bioethics)
  • 2005: Tolmein receives a special award for the barrier-free internet presence of his law firm Menschen undrechte at the BIENE Award 2005, which is organized by Aktion Mensch and the Digital Opportunities Foundation, "because it fulfills the idea of ​​content relevance and integration in a special way." Among other things, it is recognized that large parts of the homepage are offered in easy language and in German sign language .

Fonts

  • Nobody dies alone - euthanasia , nursing care and the right to self-determination ; Extended new edition; Munich: Goldmann, 2007; ISBN 978-3-442-15453-1
  • Nobody dies alone - euthanasia, nursing care and the right to self-determination ; Munich: C. Bertelsmann, 2006; ISBN 3-570-00897-5
  • Right to self-determination and ability to consent: The discontinuation of artificial nutrition in patients in the vegetative state in a comparative law perspective; the Kempten case and the Cruzan and Bland cases ; Frankfurt am Main: Mabuse, 2004; ISBN 3-935964-73-0
  • From the German autumn to September 11th: The RAF, terrorism and the state ; Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, 2002; ISBN 3-89458-204-9
  • RAF - That was liberation for us: A conversation with Irmgard Möller about armed struggle, prison and the left ; Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, 2002 3 ; ISBN 3-89458-149-2
  • World Power Law: Conflicts in the International System after the Kosovo War ; Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, 2000; ISBN 3-89458-186-7
  • When is a person a person? Ethics wrong ; Munich, Vienna: Hanser, 1993; ISBN 3-446-17560-1
  • Forgotten Stammheim - Germany's Awakening and the RAF ; Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, 1992; ISBN 3-89458-117-4
  • with Detlef to the angle : tazsachen. Show claw - give paw. Konkret Literatur-Verlag Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-922144-76-4
  • Nothing gathered - 10 years of the German Autumn and the conservatism of the left ; Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, 1987; ISBN 3-922144-66-7
  • Ecorepublic of Germany: experiences and perspectives of red-green cooperation ; Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, 1986; ISBN 3-922144-57-8
As editor
  • Distinguishing mark: D - True Germans, second class citizens and the invisible third parties ; Hamburg: KVV Konkret, 2002; ISBN 3-930786-33-8
Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Administrative Court | Press release. In: www.bverwg.de. Retrieved April 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Gröhe would have had difficulties without a self-cultivation judgment. In: DAZ.online. Retrieved April 23, 2016 .
  3. ^ Constitutional Court and Triage. Law firm Menschen undrechte, August 14, 2020, accessed on August 22, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ 1 Senate 3 Chamber Federal Constitutional Court: Federal Constitutional Court - Decisions - Unsuccessful urgent application for binding regulation of triage in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. July 16, 2020, accessed August 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Constitutional judges want to thoroughly examine triage in COVID-19. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Dr. Oliver Tolmein - People and Rights. In: www.menschenundrechte.de. April 16, 2020, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Tolmein | To person. In: www.tolmein.de. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
  8. ^ Lia Bergmann: Board of Directors | General | News. In: www.dgpalliativmedizin.de. Retrieved September 27, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: www.dgpalliativmedizin.de ; accessed on August 8, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgpalliativmedizin.de
  10. ↑ Biography in his blog at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Tolmein, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne