Dieter Sellner

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Dieter Sellner (born January 11, 1935 in Wuppertal ) is a German lawyer and specialist lawyer for administrative law .

Career

After studying law in Cologne, Munich and Bonn and passing the first state examination in 1959, Dieter Sellner received his doctorate in 1961 with a dissertation on the history of criminal law. His scientific teachers were Helmut von Weber , Bonn and Siegfried Bader , Zurich; at von Weber, Sellner was a research assistant during his traineeship. After passing the second state examination in 1963, Dieter Sellner began his professional career as legal counsel at Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG (later AkzoNobel ) in Wuppertal. In the following five years he mainly advised the company on contract law and antitrust law. His activity was connected with numerous stays abroad in Europe as well as the Near and Middle East.

In mid-1968 Dieter Sellner joined the law firm of Dahs - Redeker - Schön in Bonn. He specialized in administrative and constitutional law. At the time, he was the fifth lawyer in the partnership, now “ Redeker Sellner Dahs ”; The firm now has around 100 professionals and has offices in Bonn, Berlin, Leipzig, London, Munich and Brussels.

A joint proceeding with Konrad Redeker up to the Federal Constitutional Court resulted in the constitutional confirmation of the specialist attorney, the reintroduction of which had been controversial in the legal profession. Dieter Sellner was awarded the corresponding qualification by the Chamber in 1987.

Sellner is best known for proceedings in constitutional and environmental law - here in particular in nuclear, pollution control and mining law. Sellner represented the Federal Council in the so-called first NPD prohibition proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court and was active in numerous association prohibition proceedings for the Federal Republic of Germany (e.g. Hells Angels, Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann); In mining and pollution control law, his mandates mainly concern opencast mines and power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia. In nuclear law, which has been up to date since 1976, it was initially mainly about the central legal and dogmatic question of the extent and depth of the administrative courts to examine questions of the safety of nuclear energy. Sellner also worked on this subject in technical literary terms. In North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, Sellner a. a. active in the dispute over the territorial reform . The city of Wesseling, which was incorporated into Cologne, was given back its independence in a constitutional proceeding before the Constitutional Court in Münster, which was supervised by Sellner.

From 1992 to 1997, Sellner was a member of the independent expert commission at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, which presented the draft of an environmental code in 1997 .

From 1997 to 2009 Sellner was co-editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht . Sellner was a member of the board of the Society for Environmental Law , which he co-founded in 1977, from 1977 to 1997.

Sellner has been working in the Berlin office of Redeker Sellner Dahs since 1999.

Association activity

Sellner was chairman of the environmental law committee of the German Lawyers' Association (DAV) from 1978 to 2014 and was on the board of the working group for administrative law in the DAV in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1997.

Sellner's attachment to music was expressed in six years as a director of the Bonn Bach Association .

Procedure (extract)

Publications

Sellner has published articles in specialist journals and festschriften, reviews of judgments and reviews of specialist books. In 1978 the first edition of his environmental law book “Immissionsschutzrecht und Industrieanlagen” appeared, the third edition of which has since appeared with Olaf Reidt and Martin J. Ohms. In immission control law, he worked for the Landmann / Rohmer commentary on environmental law. Sellner's academic work was supplemented by lectures at legal congresses that have been published.

  • Dieter Sellner: On the way to the environmental code . In: Documentation for the 31st scientific conference of the Society for Environmental Law e. V. E. Schmidt, Berlin 2008, p. 35 ff .
  • Dieter Sellner: Electricity transfer according to § 7 Abs. 1b AtG . In: Forum Energy Law . 13th German Atomic Law Symposium. No. 14 . Nomos, Berlin 2008, p. 197 .
  • Dieter Sellner: Technical progress and technical risk in the light of case law . In: 7th German Atomic Law Symposium . 1983.
  • Dieter Sellner: Lecture: The assessment of technical risks in the application of the law . In: Risk interface between law and technology VDE / VDI conference 1982 in Seeheim . VDE publishing house, Düsseldorf 1982.
  • Dieter Sellner: Waste as an economic good - on the legal problem of the concept of waste . In: Society for Environmental Law (Hrsg.): Documentation for the 4th scientific conference of the Society for Environmental Law e. V. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1980, p. 63 ff .
  • Dieter Sellner: The functional reservation of the executive in the latest case law of the Federal Administrative Court . In: Forum Energy Law . 14th German Atomic Law Symposium. No. 19 . Nomos, Berlin 2013, p. 140 ff .

Honors

literature

  • Wolfgang Ewer: Dieter Sellner on his 70th birthday, (congratulations) . In: NVwZ . No. 2 , 2005, p. 175 .
  • Hartmut Kilger: Dr. Dieter Sellner 70 years, (congratulations) . In: AnwBl . No. 2 , 2005, p. 117 .
  • Personal details: Dieter Sellner receives the Hans Dahs badge . In: AnwBl . No. 7 , 2010, p. 500 .
  • Klaus-Peter Dolde (Ed.): Constitution - Environment - Economy . Festschrift for Dieter Sellner on his 75th birthday. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59808-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Sellner proceedings", BVerfG, decision of May 13, 1981 - 1 BvR 610/77 -, BVerfGE 57, 121-139 .
  2. ↑ BVerfG, decision of the Second Senate of March 18, 2003 - 2 BvB 1/01 - Rn. (1-154)
  3. ↑ BVerwG, judgment of October 18, 1988 - 1 A 89/83 -
  4. ↑ BVerwG, judgment of December 2, 1980 - 1 A 3/80 -
  5. ↑ Constitutional Tribunal NW, judgment of 6 December 1975 - Constitutional Tribunal 45/74 -
  6. ↑ Stefan Hermes: Happy “Wexit” 40 years ago. Exhibition on the independence of the city of Wesseling. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. August 7, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Summa Summarum 2016 - Wesseling in numbers. (No longer available online.) City of Wesseling - The Mayor, March 2016, archived from the original on November 26, 2016 ; accessed on November 28, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wesseling.de
  8. ↑ Top award of the German legal profession / Hans-Dahs plaque to lawyer Dr. Dieter Sellner, Berlin. German Lawyers Association, May 17, 2010, accessed on November 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Sellner, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal