Christoph Krehl

Christoph Krehl (born February 21, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German legal scholar and former hockey player . He has been a judge at the Federal Court of Justice since 2009 .

Life

Career as a hockey player

Krehl began his career in the youth team of SC Frankfurt in 1880 and was included in the first team in 1973. In the summer of 1976 he moved to the Rüsselsheim RK , for which he ran up to his last league game on February 1, 1992. With the club he won the German field hockey championship in 1977 and 1978 and the German indoor hockey championship in 1979. He also reached the World Cup final with the junior national team in 1979 and triumphed in the 1982 European Student Championship with the German selection.

Legal career

From 1978 to 1983 he studied law and journalism in Mainz and Frankfurt am Main . After his first state examination, he became a research assistant at Wolfgang Naucke's chair in Frankfurt am Main. There he received his doctorate in 1985 on "The determination of the factual basis for determining the daily rate of fines".

After the second state examination in 1988, he joined the Hessian judicial service and initially worked as a judge at the Bensheim District Court and Darmstadt District Court . From 1991 to 1996 he was seconded to the Federal Ministry of Justice , where he worked in the criminal law department and in the ministerial office. He was then seconded to the Federal Court of Justice as a research assistant until mid-1998 . Here he was employed in the investigation and revision department. During this time, in January 1998, he was promoted to judge at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court .

From 1998 to 2003 Krehl was employed as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court . There he was assigned to the department of Winfried Hassemer , the then Vice-President of the court. In addition, he was appointed senior public prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice in 1999 and seconded again to the Federal Ministry of Justice in 2000 to participate in the task force in support of the Federal Chancellor's commissioner for the foundation initiative of German companies. Since the winter semester 2001/2002 he has been lecturing at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on criminal law , criminal procedural law and constitutional law .

From 2003 to 2007 he worked again at the Federal Prosecutor's Office in the criminal revision department. He then supported Winfried Hassemer and his successor Andreas Voßkuhle again as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court until May 2009 . In July 2009 he received an honorary professorship at his alma mater in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year he was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice and assigned to the 2nd criminal division.

Web links

• Praise that counts at the RRK - Christoph Krehl ends his active hockey career . In: Darmstädter Echo from February 5, 1992.
• Press release No. 204/2009 of the Federal Court of Justice of October 5, 2009: New judges at the Federal Court of Justice
• Portrait: Prof. Dr. Christoph Krehl (PDF; 479 kB). In: Newsletter of the Law Faculty of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, issue of November 11, 2009, p. 5.