Bernhard Wahl

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Bernhard Wahl (born May 1, 1949 in Heidelberg ) is a German lawyer and former judge at the Federal Court of Justice .

Life

Wahl is the only child of the legal scholar and CDU politician Eduard Wahl and his second wife Klara von Heuss. In 1966 he passed his Abitur at the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium Heidelberg and then studied law in Heidelberg , Munich and Münster . He passed the two state exams in 1971 and 1973. In 1973 he entered the higher judicial service of Baden-Württemberg , whereupon he worked in Heidelberg at the district court , the public prosecutor's office and the regional court . At the time of his appointment he was the youngest judge in Germany. In 1976 he was appointed judge for life at the Heidelberg Regional Court.

From 1979 to 1980 he was employed in the criminal law department of the Federal Ministry of Justice . He then continued his legal career with the Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice . He was seconded here as a research assistant from 1981 until he was accepted into the federal service in 1984 and was appointed government director. Three years later he was promoted to chief prosecutor . In 1982 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation “The judges' letters , a contribution to the history of National Socialist judicial policy”. In 1991 he was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice and assigned to the 1st criminal division. In November 2002 he was appointed deputy chairman of this Senate. From 1999 to 2001 he also worked in the Senate for notary matters. When he reached the age limit, he retired on July 31, 2014.

Wahl is a member of the CDU and from 1989 to 2014, when he was no longer running, was a member of the Laudenbach municipal council , where he has chaired the CDU parliamentary group since 1994. He is honorary chairman of the state working group for Christian Democratic Lawyers Baden-Württemberg.

literature

  • Bernhard Wahl: The judges' letters, a contribution to the history of the National Socialist judicial policy. Dissertation at Heidelberg University 1982, curriculum vitae on p. 197. ( DNB data set )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88834-5 , p. 645.
  2. ↑ Short biography on the website of the 2012 Active Day of the Unitas Association in Karlsruhe (accessed on January 2, 2016)
  3. ↑ CDU community association Laudenbach - parliamentary group ( Memento from August 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Result of the municipal council election in Laudenbach 2014 (accessed on January 2, 2016)
  5. ↑ Profile on the website of the regional working group for Christian Democratic Jurists (accessed on January 2, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Wahl, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and former judge at the Federal Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany