Burkhard Peters

Burkhard Peters

Burkhard Peters (born February 19, 1953 in Hagen ) is a German lawyer and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). He has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament since 2012 .

Life

Burkhard Peters finished school in Detmold in 1974 with the Abitur and then completed his basic military service . From 1975 to 1981 he studied law in Berlin and completed the legal clerkship that followed from 1982 to 1985 in February 1985 with the 2nd state examination in law. He has been working as a lawyer in Mölln since 1987 . In the trial of the Möllner arson attack from 1992 to 1993 before the Schleswig Higher Regional Court, he represented the husband of Bahide Arslan, who was murdered in the arson attack, as a joint plaintiff. In 2007, Peters represented the Schleswig-Holstein state association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen before the Federal Constitutional Court in an organ dispute that led to the lifting of the 5 percent clause in Schleswig-Holstein's local electoral law.

politics

Peters joined the Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection in Berlin in 1984 , one of the predecessor organization of the Greens, and in 1987 switched to the Schleswig-Holstein State Association . From 1993 to 2006 he was the spokesman for BÜNDNIS 90 / Die Grünen in the Duchy of Lauenburg . From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the party council at the state level.

Electoral offices

In the local elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2008 , Peters was elected to the district council of the Duchy of Lauenburg . In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2012 and 2017 , he won the mandate on his party's state list . In the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament , Peters was a member of the petitions committee from 2012 to 2015 and a member of the parliamentary investigation committee " Friesenhof " from 2015 to 2017 . He has been a member of the Home and Legal Affairs Committee and the Judges' Election Committee since 2012 and has been a member of the Petitions Committee again since 2017.

Web links

Commons : Burkhard Peters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biographical note at Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
• CV on the information page of the state parliament
• Burkhard Peters website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court - Press - 5% clause in local elections in Schleswig-Holstein violates equal voting rights and equal opportunities. In: www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de. Retrieved November 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Landtag SH - 1st parliamentary committee of inquiry. (No longer available online.) In: www.landtag.ltsh.de. Archived from the original on November 30, 2016 ; Retrieved November 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.