Andreas Heusch

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Andreas Heusch (born May 29, 1964 in Büttgen ) is a German lawyer and president of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court . He is also Vice President of the Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia and honorary professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.

Life

Heusch began his judicial career in 1994 at the Düsseldorf Administrative Court. From 2000 he was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court for three years and assigned to the President Hans-Jürgen Papier as a research assistant . In 2002 Heusch was promoted to judge at the Higher Administrative Court for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ; shortly thereafter, he was also seconded to the constitutional court of North Rhine-Westphalia as a research assistant.

In June 2006 he moved to the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Justice , where he was appointed Ministerialrat a year later . In the ministry, he headed the department responsible for personnel matters in administrative and financial jurisdiction for three years. He was also legal advisor to the Ministry of Justice.

Since July 2009 he has been President of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court. From 2012, Heusch was also a deputy member of the Constitutional Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and since July 1, 2014 a full member. With effect from January 1, 2020 he was elected Vice President of the Constitutional Court.

Heusch is married and has four children.

Controversy

In October 2010, Heusch had a cross made from remnants of the former border fence between East and West Germany attached to the building of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court. In a letter to the court staff, referring to the preamble to the constitution, he pointed out that the cross in the courthouse was not a sign of faith, but a symbol of the cultural roots from which the liberal constitution was fed. Some of the court's employees saw this as a violation of the state's duty of neutrality.

In 2015 Heusch was criticized for the fact that his chamber had forbidden Düsseldorf's Lord Mayor Thomas Geisel to turn off the lights in Düsseldorf's city hall as a sign of protest against the right. In 2016, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster confirmed the legal assessment of the chamber headed by Heusch and also described Mayor Geisel's light-off campaign as unlawful. In September 2017, the Federal Administrative Court also fully confirmed the legal opinion of the chamber headed by Heusch: According to this, Geisel had illegally exceeded his powers by calling for participation in a counter-demonstration.

Political positions

Heusch described the German and European asylum and migration policy in March 2019 as "dysfunctional". Courts are still busy dealing with the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 ; the legal backlog is enormous and will cripple the jurisdiction for years to come. He identified the population explosion there as the reason for the increasing migration from Africa . Deportations from Germany would hardly take place, court decisions in this regard were almost always "without consequences". In this context, he also criticized the so-called church asylum .

Web links

Publications - (selection)

  • ed. with Klaus Schönenbroicher: Commentary on the state constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia. Reckinger, Siegburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-7922-0249-4 .
  • ed. with Klaus Schönenbroicher: Regulatory Authority Act North Rhine-Westphalia - Comment. Reckinger, Siegburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7922-0095-7 .
  • ed. with Winfried Kluth : Beck'scher online commentary on immigration law. Beck-Online . Beck, since 2013.
  • ed. with Johannes Dietlein: Beck'scher online comment on local law in North Rhine-Westphalia. Beck-Online . Beck, 2017.
  • ed. with Nicola Haderlein and Klaus Schönenbroicher: The new asylum law. Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69441-7 .
  • The principle of proportionality in state organization law. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003 (= Diss., University of Halle-Wittenberg 2002), ISBN 978-3-428-11190-9 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Dr. Andreas Heusch. Constitutional Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  2. ^ University of Düsseldorf: Dr. Andreas Heusch appointed honorary professor. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Administrative Court Düsseldorf: Andreas Heusch new president. State government of North Rhine-Westphalia, July 15, 2009. Accessed April 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ press release v. January 2nd, 2020: Personnel changes at the Constitutional Court: Andreas Heusch elected as Vice President and Dirk Gilberg as Judge. January 2, 2020, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  5. ^ Kulturkampf in the courthouse , Humanistic Press Service, October 5, 2010
  6. ↑ 60 years of the constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia - 20 years of German reunification ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Letter from Andreas Heusch and Gabriele Verstegen, October 2010 (PDF file, 61 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wissenrockt.de
  7. ↑ On the Day of German Unity. Cross in the administrative court , Rheinische Post from October 5, 2010
  8. ↑ Düsseldorf court to Dügida. Right in front of left , taz , March 2, 2015
  9. ^ Dusseldorf court rulings on Pegida become a mockery , Neue Ruhr Zeitung of March 4, 2015
  10. ^ Press release of the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia from November 4, 2016
  11. ↑ "light off" -Appell: Anti-Dügida action of Düsseldorf OB was unlawful . In: Spiegel Online . September 13, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 14, 2017]).
  12. ↑ mdr.de: President of the court criticizes German and EU asylum law | MDR.DE. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  13. ^ Administrative court in Düsseldorf: President Andreas Heusch massively criticizes the right of asylum. March 8, 2019, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  14. ↑ mdr.de: President of the court criticizes German and EU asylum law | MDR.DE. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Heusch, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the Administrative Court in Düsseldorf
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Büttgen