Barbara Havliza

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Barbara Havliza (born March 13, 1958 in Dortmund ) is a German judge and politician ( CDU ). She has been Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice in the Weil II cabinet since November 2017 .

Life

Barbara Havliza attended Mallinckrodt High School in her hometown and graduated from high school there in 1976. She then studied law at the Wilhelms University in Münster .

After her legal clerkship , she initially worked as a lawyer in Osnabrück and from 1987 as a judge and public prosecutor in the district courts of Oldenburg and Osnabrück. In 1995 she was an assessor of the III. Large criminal chamber of the Osnabrück Regional Court, which, despite his indications of innocence, sentenced Bernhard M. to four and a half years imprisonment for rape of his niece in four cases. After the convicted person had served his sentence in full, this judgment was overturned and Bernhard M. rehabilitated (so-called miscarriage of justice around Adolf S. and .) As part of retrial proceedings by the Oldenburg Regional Court due to blatant deficiencies that were already recognizable during the original court hearings Bernhard M. ). In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Havliza said in retrospect: "That shows how fallible one is. That is why I stand by my conviction: Better to acquit you unjustly than to condemn you wrongly."

In 2001 she was appointed presiding judge at the Osnabrück Regional Court, where she was, among other things, presiding over a jury chamber . In this capacity, she was also involved in rocker crime. In 2007 she became director of the Bersenbrück District Court .

Between 2007 and 2017 Havliza was a judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in a senate for state security matters , from 2010 as chairwoman. In 2012, she succeeded Ottmar Breidling as chairman of the renowned sixth State Security Senate. During her time as chairwoman Havliza led several significant trials, such as those against the alleged al-Qaida terrorists in the “ Düsseldorfer cell ”, against the assassin on Cologne's mayor Henriette Reker and against a returnee from Syria from the Lohberg brigade . Under the chairmanship of Havliza, the Sixth Senate also condemned the wife of a jihadist for the first time for supporting a terrorist organization. As an assessor, Havliza had already tried the members of the so-called Sauerland Group in 2010 . Havliza has been the target of death threats from the Islamist spectrum on several occasions.

Media observers described Havliza's conduct of the trial as efficient and with a keen sense of the defendants' emotional state. Their judgments were rated as rather harsh. The former North Rhine-Westphalian Justice Minister Thomas Kutschaty (SPD) called it "the face against terror".

Barbara Havliza is a Roman Catholic , married and has two children.

politics

In the election campaign before the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2017 , Barbara Havliza was a member of the CDU's shadow cabinet . After the election and coalition negotiations with the SPD , she was nominated by Bernd Althusmann as Minister of Justice in the new grand coalition and took office on November 22, 2017.

Havliza sits down u. a. for more security in the courts, a ban on religious symbols on the bench, faster proceedings in juvenile criminal law and the restriction of full veiling in court. She is one of the first judicial politicians in Germany who also advocates a legal review of the so-called abuse study published by the Catholic Church in September 2018 . At your initiative, the Lower Saxony public prosecutor's offices have created several special features in the fight against clan crime . Another focus is on strengthening the care system and the concern to prevent a judicial order of care with a power of attorney . Under their patronage, a "Day of Care Rights" took place for the first time in 2019 at almost all local courts in Lower Saxony.

In September 2018 Havliza was elected treasurer of the CDU in Lower Saxony with 94.7 percent approval . In November 2019 she was discussed as the successor to Ursula von der Leyen as deputy federal chairwoman of the CDU; Ultimately, the Bundestag member Silvia Breher was nominated and elected .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Andretta (Ed.), Department for Press, Public Relations, Protocol: Lower Saxony State Parliament. Handbook of the Lower Saxony Parliament of the 18th electoral period. 2017 to 2022 , 1st edition, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Parliament, 2018, p. 56
  2. ↑ a b Barbara Havliza , accessed on July 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ New magazine "Spurensuche": True crimes from the Osnabrück region and the Emsland. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: CRIME: Rocker boss kills in self-defense . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  5. ^ Franziska Hein: Düsseldofer Altstadt: Trial of the planned suicide attack by IS begins. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hendrik Pusch: Verdict: That is why Reker assassin Frank S. (44) did not get a "life sentence" . In: Express.de . ( express.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Reiner Burger: Syria returnee in court: A valuable accused . In: FAZ.NET . January 20, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 24, 2018]).
  8. ^ IS helper from Bonn sentenced. Accessed January 30, 2018 .
  9. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Düsseldorf: Islamists threaten Düsseldorf judge Barbara Havliza . In: swp.de . August 17, 2016 ( swp.de [accessed January 24, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Christian Schwerdtfeger: Barbara Havliza from Dusseldorf offers insights: Judge defying the threat. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Barbara Havliza is Minister of Justice in Lower Saxony | Sauerland stories. Accessed January 24, 2018 (German).
  12. ↑ Annette Ramelsberger: Justice . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Johannes Nitschmann: A tough job. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Peter Mlodoch: CDU top candidate Althusmann presents other shadow ministers . ( weser-kurier.de [accessed on October 17, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Rundblick: "The judiciary must not accept the slightest doubt about its neutrality". Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Justice Minister Barbara Havliza presents the political agenda | Nds. Ministry of Justice. Accessed January 24, 2018 (German).
  17. ↑ Rundblick: Politician of the Week: Barbara Havliza. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Panoramic view: Hildesheim bishop wants to open the files in the abuse scandal. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Save the date: 23 September 2019 - Lower Saxony-wide day of care law | Nds. Ministry of Justice. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Judge Barbara Havliza . In: FAZ objection . ( faz.net [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  21. ↑ Reinhard Bingener, Hanover: Deputy CDU leader: The amazing career of Silvia Breher . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 13, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Havliza, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , Germany