Axel Boetticher

Axel Boetticher (born July 2, 1943 in Insterburg ) is a German lawyer and former judge at the Federal Court of Justice .

biography

After graduating from high school, Boetticher completed an apprenticeship as a banker . He then took a degree in jurisprudence on. In 1974 he was at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on "The recognition of commercial companies and legal persons in the EEC region" Dr. iur. PhD. Boetticher completed his legal training in 1975 with the second state examination in law.

After a brief activity as a lawyer, Boetticher entered the higher judicial service of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , where he was initially assigned as a probationary judge at the regional court and the district court of Bremen . In 1978 he was appointed judge at the Bremen District Court. Between 1987 and 1990 Boetticher was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court as a research assistant , and from 1990 to 1992 to the Senator for Federal Affairs of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. During the second secondment he was appointed judge at the Bremen Higher Regional Court.

In 1995 Boetticher was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice. Here he was initially a member of the Second Civil Senate responsible for legal disputes in the area of corporate law. From 1997 he was a member of the 1st Criminal Senate . There he was, among other things, a reporter on the decisions on state-induced crime provocation and on the violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) ( BGHSt 45, 321), on assessing the severity of another serious mental abnormality (BGHSt 49, 45) and on eavesdropping in the sickroom ( BGHSt 50, 206).

At the end of July 2008, Boetticher retired.

Web links

• Judge at the Federal Court of Justice Dr. Retired Axel Boetticher , Federal Court of Justice press release No. 149/08, July 31, 2008