Ekkehard Schumann

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Ekkehard Schumann (born December 28, 1931 in Leipzig ) is a German lawyer and Bavarian politician .

Life

Ekkehard Schumann is the son of the district court director Hermann Schumann and his wife Marianne. In 1950 he passed the Abitur at the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . Since 1949 he was a member of a resistance group of the young community of the Evangelical Church. Because of this activity he was arrested in 1951. After his release from Zwickau prison , he fled to West Berlin in 1952.

academic career

After graduating from high school, Ekkehard Schumann began studying philosophy and law at the Free University of Berlin . He continued his studies at the University of Zurich and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1957 he studied abroad in London and Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA). He passed the first state examination in 1957 in Munich and the second state examination in 1961 in the same place. From 1958 Ekkehard Schumann was an assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. There he received his doctorate in 1961. jur. with Rudolf Pohle . The habilitation follows in 1967. He received the venia legendi (teaching qualification) for civil law, civil procedural law and legal philosophy. From 1967 to 2000 Schumann taught as a full professor at the University of Regensburg (chair for procedural law and civil law). 1969/1970 he was dean of the law and economics faculty, then vice dean. Ekkehard Schumann turned down offers at the Universities of Hamburg and Augsburg and stayed at the Law Faculty of the University of Regensburg until his retirement . Schumann continues to hold seminars regularly and read the revision course on civil procedural law.

Schumann's formula

In 1963 Ekkehard Schumann developed the Schumann formula that is named after him in 1963 as part of his dissertation “Constitutional and human rights complaints against judicial decisions” . The formula serves to delimit the examination competence of the Federal Constitutional Court from that of the specialized courts in the context of the justification of constitutional complaints against court decisions. The criteria set out in Schumann's formula are still used in practice today.

politics

From 1972 to 1973 Ekkehard Schumann was state chairman of the University Association of Bavaria . In 1974 he became a member of the Bavarian Senate (committee for cultural policy and legal and constitutional committee). From 1980 he was chairman of the committee for cultural policy and from 1980 to 1996 a member of the presidium of the Bavarian Senate , initially as secretary, from 1988 to 1994 as second vice-president. In 1994 he became 1st Vice President of the Bavarian Senate. He held this office until 1996. In 1999 the Bavarian Senate was dissolved. From 1985 to 1999 he was Deputy Chairman of the Media Council of the Bavarian State Center for New Media .

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Constitutional and human rights complaints against judicial decisions. Public Law Writings, Volume 11. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1963.
  • Stein, Jonas: Commentary on the Code of Civil Procedure. Mohr Siebeck.
  • The substantive law-friendly interpretation of the procedural law. In: Uwe Diederichsen , Claus-Wilhelm Canaris (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Karl Larenz on his 80th birthday. Beck, Munich 1983, pp. 571-604.
  • The supra-local law firm. Freedom of movement and localization of the German legal profession. Oldenbourg, Munich, Vienna 1990.
  • Human Rights Convention and Civil Trial. In: Peter Gottwald , Hanns Prütting (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Karl-Heinz Schwab on his 70th birthday. Beck, Munich 1990, pp. 449-463.
  • Constitutional complaints to the Federal Constitutional Court against decisions of the Bavarian Constitutional Court. At the same time a contribution about the participation of the Bavarian Senate in constitutional court proceedings. In: Constitution as responsibility and obligation. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Bavarian Constitutional Court. Edited by the Bavarian Constitutional Court. Boorberg, Stuttgart, Munich, Hanover, Berlin, Weimar, Dresden, pp. 201-227.
  • Declaration of settlement and withdrawal of action after the main matter has been settled. Perpetual reform objects of the ZPO legislature. In: Reinhard Greger , Irmgard Gleussner, Jörn Heinemann (eds.): Festgabe for Max Vollkommer on his 75th birthday. Schmidt, Cologne 2006, pp. 155–198.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See for example BVerfGE 59, 231 (256 f.); 63, 45 (67); 69, 315 (372); 81, 29 (31 f.); 82, 6 (15 f.); 99, 129 (139).
  2. ↑ Andreas Voßkuhle, in: von Mangoldt / Klein Starck (ed.): Commentary on the Basic Law, Volume 3, 6th Edition, Munich 2010, Art. 93 No. 61 (with footnote 319).

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personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig