Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig

Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig, 2019

Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig (born October 8, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German professor emeritus for public law and politicians (FDP). From 1996 to 1998 he was Federal Minister of Justice.

Life

After graduating from the Johanneum in Lüneburg in 1961 , Schmidt-Jortzig began to study law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1962 he became a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Lausanne and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1966 he passed the trainee exam, in 1969 the assessor exam and the doctorate to Dr. iur. He then worked as a local lawyer and in 1970 switched to the Institute for International Law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen as a research assistant , where he completed his habilitation in 1976 and became a private lecturer . In 1977 he was appointed to the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1984, he followed the call of the Christian-Albrechts-University at the Chair for Public Law . From 1983 to 1989 he was a judge in the second main and secondary office at the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court , from 1989 to 1990 at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Administrative Court and from 1992 to 1994 at the Constitutional Court of the Free State of Saxony . He was the doctoral supervisor of Gert Hoffmann and, as dean, gave the laudation to Klaus von der Groeben during his honorary doctorate in Kiel in 1992.

politics

Since 1982 member of the Free Democratic Party , Schmidt-Jortzig moved in the general election in 1994 on the national list Schleswig-Holstein in the German Bundestag one. For the entire 14th electoral term, he headed the internal and legal policy working group of the FDP parliamentary group. From 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the government commission to prevent and combat violence . In 1989/90 he advised the members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia . Immediately after the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , he taught at the University of Rostock in the winter semester of 1990/91 . 1991–1993 he took part in the constitutional deliberations in Poland and Estonia . From 1991–1994 he sat in the Enquête Commission “Constitutional Reform” Rhineland-Palatinate and in the Constitutional Commission Thuringia . On January 17, 1996, he was appointed to the Kohl V cabinet as Federal Minister of Justice . After the 1998 Bundestag election , he left the government on October 26, 1998. From 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the Parliamentary Control Commission and the Study Commission “Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine”. After leaving the Bundestag in 2002, he worked in the Federalism Commission from 2003 to 2004 .

Honorary positions

From 1997 to 2004 Schmidt-Jortzig was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany . From 2008 to 2012 he was chairman of the new German Ethics Council ; he has been an ordinary member since 2012. From 2007 to 2009 he helped in Rostock with the (failed) establishment of the private Hanseatic University . Since 1999 he has been on the Advisory Board for the Holsteiner Study Prize of the Corps Holsatia .

family

Schmidt-Jortzig has been married to Marion born in 1968. by Arnim. The marriage had four children.

See also

• List of members of the German Bundestag (14th electoral term)

Publications

• Karl Marx as a law student , in: Hans-Joachim Priester , Hansjörg Heppe and Harm Peter Westermann : Practice and teaching in commercial law. 10 years of Österberg Seminars . Mohr-Verlag, Tübingen 2018, doi: 10.1628 / 978-3-16-156631-8 .
• Legal issues in biomedicine . Logos, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89722-956-3 .
• Legal problems of the interlocking of power in multi-level systems . Heymann, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-452-25029-6 .
• 40 exams from administrative law. With solution sketches , 6th edition. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1999, ISBN 978-3-472-03764-4 .
• Thomas Dehler as a liberal legal politician , in: House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Thomas Dehler and his politics , Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87584-721-0 , pp. 91–96.
• with Jürgen Makswit: Handbook of municipal finance and budget law , Aschendorff, Münster 1991, ISBN 978-3-402-04141-3 .
• Local law . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz 1982, ISBN 978-3-17-007316-6 .
• The duty of unity of the collegial government (compulsory government). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-17-001219-3 .

editor

• with Henning Voscherau (ed.): Nordstaat. Interdisciplinary study on the opportunities and risks of future cooperation or reorganization of northern German federal states , University of Kiel Lorenz-von-Stein-Institut, Kiel 2007, ISBN 978-3-936773-28-6 .
• Journal for Public Law in Northern Germany (NordÖR)

literature

• Law and politics. Scientific symposium for Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig on the occasion of his 65th birthday , ed. by Utz Schliesky and Christian Ernst . Heymann, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-452-26487-9 .
• Utz Schliesky (Ed.): The freedom of the people in commune, state and Europe. Festschrift for Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig. Müller, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8114-5421-7 .

Web links

Commons : Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chair for public law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Biography on a website of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
• Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 60/586.
2. ↑ Dissertation: The effect of the transfer of claims for collection (§ 835 Abs. 1 ZPO) .
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Communal organizational sovereignty - state organizational power and corporate self-administration .
4. ^ Final report of the Violence Commission ( Memento from April 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Holsteiner Study Prize .