Elmar Thurn

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Elmar Thurn (born July 30, 1921 in Berlin ; † February 1, 2015 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and judge at the Federal Administrative Court .

Career

His family came from Franconia; his father, Ludwig Thurn, was a lawyer and senior civil servant at the Imperial Audit Office and was working in Potsdam at the time of Elmar's birth . Elmar Thurn spent most of his school days in Munich. After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich, he enlisted in the military in September 1940 and remained with the mountain troops (1943 lieutenant) until the end of the war, serving in France , the Caucasus and especially in the Balkans / Greece .

From 1946 to 1949 Thurn completed his law studies in Marburg . In January 1952 he passed the second state examination in law and then worked as an assessor , district judge and district judge in Siegen (and briefly Hagen ) in Westphalia . Between 1958 and 1967 he was seconded to the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn ; his main occupation was the establishment of a military criminal justice system . From January 1967 he was Ministerialrat and Head of Unit for Military Criminal Law. From July 1979 until his retirement on March 31, 1986, Thurn was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court (which at that time had its seat in Berlin) as a member of the 1st Military Service Senate based in Munich.

Publications

  • Elmar Thurn: The constitutional basis of military criminal jurisdiction in the case of defense. In: New magazine for military law . (1976), pp. 223-230.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Annual report of the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1939/40.
  2. ^ Hermann Frank Meyer: Bloody edelweiss. The history of the 1st Mountain Division in World War II. Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-447-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Thurn, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and judge at the Federal Administrative Court (2000–2008)
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2015
Place of death Munich