Antje Niewisch-Lennartz

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Antje Niewisch-Lennartz, 2013

Antje Niewisch-Lennartz (born December 31, 1952 in Lüneburg ) is a German lawyer and politician ( Die Grünen ). From 2013 to 2017 she was Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice in the Weil I cabinet .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1971, Antje Niewisch studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1971 to 1976 . The first state examination in law, which she passed in August 1976, was followed by her legal clerkship and in January 1979 the second state examination.

After that, she initially worked as the deputy managing director of the student union at Kassel University . In February 1986 she moved to the Kassel Administrative Court , where she worked as a judge until 1992. In the three following years she worked as a deputy judge at the Lower Saxony state commissioner for data protection .

From 1995 to 2013 Antje Niewisch-Lennartz was a judge at the Administrative Court in Hanover , and since November 2002 as the presiding judge. In recent years she has been particularly active in the fields of economics, agriculture and animal welfare. Furthermore, since 2002 she has been involved as a judge mediator in the project "Judicial Mediation in Lower Saxony".

As a member of the Greens , she was also active in local politics until 2013 and was the deputy mayor of Misburg-Anderten , a district of Hanover. From February 19, 2013 to November 21, 2017, she was Minister of Justice of Lower Saxony under Prime Minister Stephan Weil ( SPD ).

In December 2018, she was called as mediator in the dispute between the church council of the Marktkirche Hannover and the heir of the post-war architect Dieter Oesterlen over a glass window designed by the artist Markus Lüpertz , which former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had donated. In spring 2019 she was appointed head of an external commission of inquiry, which, on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church, is to clarify the allegations of child abuse against the former Hildesheim Bishop Heinrich Janssen, who died in 1988 . Niewisch-Lennartz is not a member of the Catholic Church herself, but a Protestant.

Antje Niewisch-Lennartz is married to the Green politician Hans-Albert Lennartz and has two sons.

Web links

Commons : Antje Niewisch-Lennartz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Benne: Mediation should settle window disputes. In: Göttinger Tageblatt . December 21, 2018, accessed April 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wilmer: We have to deal with the darker side of our past. In: Katholisch.de . April 3, 2019, accessed April 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Green candidate: Administrative judge Niewisch-Lennartz becomes Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Osnabrücker Zeitung from February 12, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Niewisch-Lennartz, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg