Ekkehard Kohlhaas

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Ekkehard Kohlhaas (born March 30, 1944 in Stuttgart ; † March 19, 2017 in Bretten ) was a German federal prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice.

Life

As the son of Federal Prosecutor Max Kohlhaas , Ekkehard Kohlhaas attended the Waldorf School in Stuttgart. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from the summer semester of 1963 . Coming from an old family of law students in the corps, he became active in Palaiomarchia-Masovia , the Kiel corps of his father and brother. In the winter semester of 1964/65 he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In the summer of 1968 he passed the first state examination there. In 1971 he also became a member of the Corps Palatia-Guestphalia . After passing the second state examination, he entered the civil service as a probationary judge, first at the Offenburg District Court , then at the Karlsruhe Regional Court . In March 1975 he became a public prosecutor at the Karlsruhe Public Prosecutor's Office . In July 1976 he was seconded to the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn. The transfer took place in 1978 and Kohlhaas was appointed government director. From August 1979 to June 1980 he conducted research at the Harvard Kennedy School on a scholarship . He graduated with a Master of Public Administration (MPA). After the success of the vote of no confidence in 1982 and the defeat of the SPD in the Bundestag election in 1983 , he took over the management of the office of parliamentary group leader Hans-Jochen Vogel . To this end, he was given leave of absence from the Ministry of Justice for the SPD parliamentary group .

On September 15, 1985 Ekkehard Kohlhaas began his service with the Federal Prosecutor's Office . On May 31, 1986, he was appointed Chief Public Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice and represented the Federal Prosecutor's Office in many, even spectacular, criminal cases, B. against secret service officers of the former GDR Ministry for State Security (HVA). He was also co-editor of the Heidelberg Commentary on Road Traffic Law . On October 9, 1996, he was appointed federal prosecutor and worked in the auditing department of the federal prosecutor's office until he retired in 2009. After a long illness, Kohlhaas died shortly before his 73rd birthday.

Works

  • with Wolfgang Neumann, Michael Sauthoff: Heidelberg Commentary on Road Traffic Law , 13th edition. CF Müller Commentary, ISBN 978-3-8114-3900-9

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 114/151; 118/128
  2. ^ Gerhard Mauz: Revolution for Peace . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32/1991 , August 5, 1991.
  3. Volker Stechele: Obituary for Ekkehard Kohlhaas . In: Corps newspaper of the Altmark Masuria . tape 132 . Kiel 2018, p. 2379 .