Wolfgang Zeidler
Wolfgang Zeidler (born September 2, 1924 in Hamburg ; † December 31, 1987 in Meran ) was a German lawyer and President of the Federal Constitutional Court from 1983 to 1987.
Life
The son of a Social Democratic high school councilor graduated from the Johanneum's school of scholars , studied from 1945 at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1951 under Hans Peter Ipsen . During his studies, the SPD member Zeidler was a co-founder and first federal secretary of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) in 1946 .
After graduating, Zeidler initially worked as a judge at the regional court and the administrative court in Hamburg as well as in the administration of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In the meantime, he was seconded to Erna Scheffler's research at the Federal Constitutional Court, where he was the youngest judge from August 1967 to June 1970.
In 1970 he became President of the Federal Administrative Court in (then) Berlin . He then returned to Karlsruhe, became Vice President in 1975 and finally President of the Federal Constitutional Court in 1983. He held this position until he retired in November 1987.
From 1979 he was chairman of the German-British Lawyers Association . In 1986 he was also appointed Honorary President of the German-Korean Legal Society.
Zeidler died on New Year's Eve 1987 in a mountain accident in South Tyrol .
Awards
- 1987: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
- 1987: Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit
Publications
- Effects of the West German state constitutions on the Bonn Basic Law. Dissertation. Hamburg 1950
- with Theodor Maunz , Gerd Roellecke (eds.): Festschrift Hans Joachim Faller . Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-09597-6
literature
- Walther Fürst , Roman Herzog , Dieter C. Umbach (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Wolfgang Zeidler. 2 volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1987, ISBN 3-11-011057-1 (with bibliography).
- Alexander Jannasch : Pictures of judges: Wolfgang Zeidler - President of the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Constitutional Court. In: Yearbook of Public Law of the Present . New series, volume 62, pp. 475-484.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Zeidler in the catalog of the German National Library
- When in doubt for the state , obituary in the time , January 8, 1988
- DIED Wolfgang Zeidler . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1988 ( online ).
- Wolfgang Zeidler in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
Hermann Höpker-Aschoff (1951–1954) | Josef Wintrich (1954–1958) | Gebhard Müller (1959–1971) | Ernst Benda (1971–1983) | Wolfgang Zeidler (1983–1987) | Roman Herzog (1987–1994) | Jutta Limbach (1994-2002) | Hans-Jürgen Paper (2002–2010) | Andreas Voßkuhle (2010–2020) | Stephan Harbarth (since 2020)
Rudolf Katz (1951–1961) | Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1961–1967) | Walter Seuffert (1967–1975) | Wolfgang Zeidler (1975–1983) | Roman Herzog (1983–1987) | Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz (1987–1994) | Jutta Limbach (1994-1994) | Johann Friedrich Henschel (1994–1995) | Otto Seidl (1995–1998) | Hans-Jürgen Paper (1998–2002) | Winfried Hassemer (2002–2008) | Andreas Voßkuhle (2008–2010) | Ferdinand Kirchhof (2010–2018) | Stephan Harbarth (2018-2020) | Doris König (since 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeidler, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD), President of the Federal Constitutional Court (1983–1987) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1987 |
| Place of death | Meran |