Bernd Lutterbeck

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Bernd Lutterbeck (* August 8, 1944 ; † December 16, 2017 ) was a German data protection officer and legal IT specialist .

Bernd Lutterbeck was one of the founders of the research area "Computer Science and Society" in Germany. From 1984 to 2009 he worked as a professor for applied computer science in the computer science department of the TU Berlin with a focus on computer science and society, data protection and information law, and administrative informatics. Before that, he worked for the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection in Bonn from 1978 to 1984 .

After studying law and business administration in Tübingen and Kiel and academic activities at the Universities of Regensburg (1969–1971, Faculty of Law) and Hamburg (1974–1978, lecturer in the Faculty of Computer Science), Lutterbeck received his doctorate in law at the University of Regensburg in 1976 with the Dissertation Parliament and Information: an information-theoretical and constitutional investigation . His doctoral supervisor, Wilhelm Steinmüller , was a pioneer in German data protection. Lutterbeck promoted reflection on the digitization of society. Not least in the judgments of the Federal Constitutional Court, these thoughts were found, especially with regard to “ informational self-determination ”.

In the Gesellschaft für Informatik , Lutterbeck was intensively involved in the creation of the “ethical guidelines”. Bernd Lutterbeck was an advocate of Free Software , he published many thoughts on it in the Open Source Yearbook of the TU Berlin.

He was the spokesman for a Berlin initiative for laying stumbling blocks in Berlin-Friedenau .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b entry
  2. a b biography on his private website
  3. ^ Ethical guidelines of the Society for Informatics
  4. ^ TU Berlin, Open Source Yearbook
  5. Stolpersteine ​​initiative in Handjerystrasse