Christoph Flügge

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Christoph Flügge (born July 14, 1947 ) is a German lawyer . From June 2001 to February 2007 he was State Secretary of the Senate Department for Justice in Berlin . Since November 18, 2008 he has been a permanent judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague . In December 2011 he was also elected Judge of the International Residual Mechanism for the ad hoc criminal courts .

Life

Christoph Flügge studied from 1967 to 1973 law at the Free University of Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn . He passed the first state law examination in 1973 and the second in 1976. Parallel to his studies, he worked from 1969 to 1971 for a social democratic member of the Bundestag. From 1973 to 1976 he was a trainee lawyer in Berlin.

In 1976 Flügge became personal advisor to the Interior Senator Kurt Neubauer . Before Neubauer resigned from the senatorial office in April 1977, he switched to the Berlin public prosecutor's office in January 1977. From 1978 he worked in the Berlin Senate Justice Administration, where he became head of department in the prison department. In 1983 he became a criminal judge, initially at a large criminal chamber of the Berlin Regional Court, then as chairman of a lay judge at the Tiergarten District Court in Berlin. In 2001 Justice Senator Wolfgang Wieland (Greens) appointed him State Secretary of the Senate Justice Administration. Wieland valued him as "a constant for a liberal but realistic judicial policy". In February 2007 he was dismissed from office by Justice Senator Gisela von der Aue (SPD) because of political differences because of drugs allegedly withheld from the Moabit correctional facility .

On the proposal of the Federal Ministry of Justice, the Secretary General of the United Nations , Ban Ki-Moon , appointed Flügge in 2008 as permanent judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. There he succeeded Wolfgang Schomburg , who was unable to continue in his office due to the psychological stress resulting from the testimony of witnesses. In December 2011 he was also elected judge of the International Residual Mechanism for the ad hoc criminal courts , which will serve as the successor to the ad hoc criminal courts for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda from July 2012 .

Flügge was a member of the judges' panel in the criminal case against the former police chief and deputy interior minister of Serbia, Vlastimir Đorđević . Since December 2009 he has been chairman of the criminal chamber in the proceedings against the Bosnian-Serb general Zdravko Tolimir . On May 27, 2011, he was appointed a member of a three-person judicial panel of the First Criminal Chamber, which decided the trial against the Serbian ex-general Ratko Mladić . The Dutchman Alphonsus Orie as chairman and the South African Bakone Justice Moloto are leading the proceedings with him. The Dutchman presides over the meetings by decision of the judges' panel. Representatives of the victims of the Srebrenica massacre demanded that he be recalled from the chamber because he had spoken out against the genocide in an interview .

In January 2019, he resigned from his position at the Criminal Court for personal reasons. At the same time, however, he expressed strong criticism of the Turkish and US governments, which, with actual or threatened legal action against unpleasant judges, made it clear that their governments are above international law.

Flügge is married.

Fonts

  • GDR prison system. Right instead of drill . In: Neue Kriminalpolitik , 1990
  • Old mind - new problems. Sentencing after reunification . In: Neue Kriminalpolitik , 1991
  • as co-author: Assessment of the Ukrainian Prison System. Report on Council of Europe expert missions to Ukraine in June and August 1996 (Lakes / Flügge / Philip / Nestorovic-Report), Council of Europe, Strasbourg 1997 (= Joint Program between the Commission of the European Communities and the Council of Europe for legal system reform, local government reform and the transformation of the law enforcement system in Ukraine, project UKR VB 4 [97] 1 )
  • … And yet she is moving. Debate on the death penalty in Ukraine . In: ai-Journal , 6/1997
  • Berlin shows the courage to reform . In: Neue Kriminalpolitik , 1/1998
  • MfS remand prisons . In: Prison in the new federal states . Criminological Central Office, Wiesbaden 1999
  • as co-editor: The prison as a learning organization . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7156-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Neubauer on the website of the Berlin Senate Department for the Interior and Sport, section Die Berliner Interior Senators , accessed on July 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Reinhard Müller: Changing of the Guard in The Hague . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Online
  3. ↑ Letter dated July 25, 2008 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council. In: securitycouncilreport.org. July 31, 2008, accessed on July 26, 2017 (letter from Ban Ki-moon to the President of the United Nations Security Council ).
  4. ^ Michael Martens: Engineering work on the mass grave. The Yugoslavia Tribunal will soon deliver its final verdict. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 12, 2017, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Ratko Mladic before the UN tribunal: “Didn't kill any Muslims” . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Online, June 3, 2011.
  6. ^ Srebrenica victims demand withdrawal , n-tv from May 30, 2011.
  7. ↑ "I am deeply concerned" . The time . January 23, 2019. Accessed February 1, 2019.
  8. ^ UN court judge quits The Hague citing political interference ( en ) The Guardian . January 28, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Flügge, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1947