Bernhard Kapsa

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Bernhard-Michael Kapsa (born August 11, 1943 in Breslau ) is a German lawyer and former judge at the Federal Court of Justice .

Life

After completing his legal training, Kapsa worked on his dissertation on "The prohibition of reformatio in peius in civil proceedings" , with which he received his doctorate in 1975 at the University of Bonn . In the same year Kapsa entered the higher judicial service of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , where he first at the district court of Bonn , the Cologne District Court and the District Court of Cologne has worked. In 1979 he was appointed judge at the Bonn Regional Court. After serving as the full-time head of a civil law trainee working group and as a lecturer at the School of Justice in Bad Münstereifel , Kapsa was seconded to the Federal Court of Justice as a research assistant from 1983 to 1986 . After the end of this secondment, he was appointed judge at the Cologne Higher Regional Court. Here, too, he was part of the full-time trainee training. From 1992 to 1995 Kapsa was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court as a research assistant .

In 1996 Kapsa was appointed judge at the Federal Supreme Court. Here he belonged first to the 2nd civil senate , from 1999 to the III. Civil Senate . On August 31, 2008, Kapsa retired.

Individual evidence

  1. Press release of the BGH No. 161/08 from August 29, 2008