Dimitris Tsatsos

Dimitris Th. Tsatsos ( Greek Δημήτρης Θ. Τσάτσος , * May 5, 1933 in Athens ; † April 24, 2010 ibid), was a Greek legal scholar and former member of the European Parliament . He was the son of the politician and lawyer Themistoklis Tsatsos (1906-1971) and a nephew of the former President Konstantinos Tsatsos .

Life

After studying law at the University of Athens and Heidelberg , he completed his doctorate and first habilitation at the University of Athens. In 1968, under the Greek military dictatorship , Dimitris Tsatsos was not given a lecture permit on site. In 1968 he therefore qualified for a second time at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bonn . There he taught as a professor until 1974 . From 1974 to 1980 Tsatsos was professor of constitutional law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . During this time he was politically active as a member of the first post-dictatorship parliament. From 1980 to 1989 he held the Chair of Constitutional Law at the Panteion University of Athens . At the same time he taught as a full professor for German and foreign constitutional law at the Distance University in Hagen . From 1991 to 1997 he was also director of the Institute for German and European Party Law in Düsseldorf.

From 1994 to 2004 Tsatsos was a member of the European Parliament in the parliamentary group of the Party of European Socialists . He was the doctoral supervisor of the former federal chairman of the FDP , Guido Westerwelle , and the mayor of Altena, Andreas Hollstein , CDU.

Awards

• 1995: European Culture Prize
• 1998: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
• 2001: Honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• 2002: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2007: Honorary doctorate at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Crete
• 2008: Honorary Director of the Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen. After his death in April 2010 it was named after him: Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies
• 2009: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the Peloponnese

Tsatsos was an honorary citizen of Skiathos , Chersonissos and Neapoli (Crete) .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dimitris Tsatsos in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Dimitris Tsatsos in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
• Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Dimitris Th. Tsatsos († April 24, 2010). Fernuniversität Hagen, archived from the original on April 5, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Britta Bürger: Altena's mayor Andreas Hollstein - "I want a society in which protection is not necessary". (mp3 audio, 35.2 MB, 38:31 minutes) In: Deutschlandfunk-Kultur broadcast “Radiofeuilleton - In Conversation”. January 3, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020 .