Working group of social democratic lawyers

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Basic data
Chairman: Harald Baumann-Hasske
Deputy
Chair:		 A. Thorsten Jobs
Katja Weitzel
Assessor: Daniela Cernko
Frank Diembeck
Shirin Dirks
Antje Draheim
Jürgen Gasper
Fabian Hoffmann
Ralf Lindemann
Anne Deike Riewe
Philipp Schwarz
Structure: 16 regional associations and 6 districts
Website: asj.spd.de

The Working Group of Social Democratic Lawyers ( ASJ ) is a legal-political working group of the SPD , in which mostly lawyers who are members of the SPD are involved.

structure

According to the statutes of the SPD of ASJ members belong to which a jurisprudential have completed studies or law study, is because of their profession or employ volunteer with legal issues or in a field of otherwise expertise rights policies have. Participation is also possible without an SPD membership.

purpose

The purpose of the working group is to help shape the legal system in line with democratic socialism on a national and international level. The guiding principle is a liberal , democratic , social constitutional order based on the idea of justice , which safeguards human and civil rights and is aware of the responsibility for peace , the Third World and the preservation of the natural foundations of life. It is also the aim of the ASJ to take up impulses from the social discussion and to make use of the expertise of its members.

The ASJ regularly organizes the Gustav Radbruch Forum and is involved in the network of European social democratic lawyers ( EUSONET ).

history

The ASJ has been working on target groups for the SPD since 1954 and is aimed at those interested in legal policy. The first federal meeting of the ASJ took place from October 22, 1954 to October 24, 1954 in Hanover . The conference dealt primarily with the basic questions of criminal law reform . The focus of the conference was a lecture by Adolf Arndt entitled “Legal Thought of Our Time ( Positivism and Natural Law )” . In it Arndt said: "Law and justice have become dear to us Social Democrats because we have experienced lawlessness and know that lawlessness makes you hungrier than lack of bread and thirstier than lack of water."

Well-known members of the ASJ include Adolf Arndt (1904–1974), Werner Holtfort , Erich Küchenhoff , Hans Peter Bull , Hannelore Kohl , Thomas Oppermann , Brigitte Zypries , Uwe-Dietmar Berlit and Anke Pörksen .

In April 2013, Poerksen resigned from the federal chairmanship and from her membership in the federal executive board because she had been appointed spokeswoman for the red-green state government of Lower Saxony ( Weil I cabinet ). The federal conference elected attorney Harald Baumann-Hasske from Dresden as federal chairman on October 26, 2013 in Düsseldorf .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ASJ press release from 23.09.2018. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ About us. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ ASJ About Us ( Memento from January 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). SPD . Retrieved February 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Principles and guidelines for the activities of the working groups in the SPD from March 26, 2012 ( Memento from January 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), p. 4
  5. ↑ SPD press release 596/13 of October 29, 2013
  6. ↑ ASJ Federal Conference: By-elections and demands on a coalition ( Memento from November 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )