André Donner

André Donner (1971)

Andreas Matthias (André) Donner (born June 15, 1918 in Rotterdam ; † August 24, 1992 in Amersfoort ) was a Dutch legal scholar .

Career

Donner studied from 1936 to 1939 law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and graduated at the age of 21 years at the city's Law Faculty graduated cum laude from. As early as 1941 he received his doctorate there with the thesis : De Rechtsskracht van administratieve beschikkingen (The legal force of administrative rulings) . From 1945 to 1958 he taught Heads of State and Administrative Law at the University of Amsterdam. On October 7, 1958, he was appointed judge at the European Court of Justice . He worked there until 1979. He then taught at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen until his retirement in 1984 . During this time he was also President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . From 1986 to 1987 he was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights .

Donner headed various commissions. The best known was the so-called Commission of Three (Commissie van Drie) , which investigated Prince Bernhard's involvement in the Lockheed scandal . He also headed a fundamental rights commission together with Jo Cals in the 1960s, the so-called staatscommissie Cals-Donner . In 1971 it presented a draft that was implemented in the great reform of the constitution of the Netherlands in 1983 .

family

André Donner is the son of Jan Donner , who was the Dutch Minister of Justice from 1926 to 1933 , and the brother of the chess master Jan Hein Donner . He is also the father of Piet Hein Donner , who held various ministerial posts in the Netherlands from 2002 to 2011 and has been Vice President of the Raad van State ever since .

Web links

• Biography on www.parlement.com ( nl. )