Eckart Klein

Eckart Klein (* 6. April 1943 in Opole , Silesia ) was from June 1994 to July 2008 Chair of heads of state , international law and European law at the University of Potsdam .

biography

After graduating from high school in Karlsruhe in 1962 and then doing military service , he studied law from 1964 to 1968 in Freiburg im Breisgau , Göttingen , Lausanne and Heidelberg . In 1973 he received his doctorate on the subject: "The constitutional problem of the ministerial-free area". He completed his habilitation in 1980 on status contracts in international law . From 1974 to 1976 he was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court as a research assistant and was subordinate to the then President Ernst Benda . Between 1981 and 1994 he held the chair for public law , international law and European law at the University of Mainz . From 1994 he was full professor for public law at the University of Potsdam. In 2008 he retired. His successor was Andreas Zimmermann .

In 2011 he was awarded the Magdeburg Human Rights Medal from the Human Rights Laboratory at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

Eckart Klein is married and has three grown-up children.

Functions

Eckart Klein was a part-time judge at the higher administrative courts of the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Brandenburg. He was a member of the State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

From 1995 to 2002 he was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in New York and Geneva. He worked several times as an ad hoc judge at the ECHR .

Publications (selection)

• Fundamental rights, social order and constitutional jurisdiction. Festschrift for Ernst Benda on his 70th birthday. Müller, Jur. Verl., Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-8114-0695-7 .
• The United Nations and the Development of International Law . In: Helmut Volger (Ed.): Foundations and structures of the United Nations . Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58202-4 , p. 21.

literature

• Marten Breuer , Astrid Epiney , Andreas Haratsch , Stefanie Schmahl and Norman Weiß (eds.): The state in law. Festschrift for Eckart Klein on his 70th birthday , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-83738-0 .

Web links

• Chair for Constitutional, International and European Law, Prof. Dr. E. Klein, the University of Potsdam
• Literature by and about Eckart Klein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page on the carpenter's chair

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .