Erich Eichhoff

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Erich Eichhoff (born July 22, 1909 in Freiendiez ; † March 24, 1976 in Cologne ) was a German administrative lawyer and traffic lawyer .

Life

Eichhoff began to study law at the Hessian Ludwig University in Giessen . In 1928 he became active in the Corps Starkenburgia . When he was inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Georg August University in Göttingen .

After the second state examination, Eichhoff was employed by what was then the Reichskraftwagenbetriebsverband (RKB). In 1950 he was appointed to the road traffic department of the Federal Ministry of Transport , where he was involved in the work on the new legal system for the transport system in the Federal Republic, in particular the draft of the Road Freight Transport Act . On April 1, 1952, he took over the management of the long- distance freight transport department . With the establishment of the Federal Agency for Long-Distance Freight Transport through the Road Haulage Act of October 17, 1952, he was appointed President and entrusted with the establishment of the new federal authority. At the end of July 1974 he retired.

Eichhoff was a board member of the German Transport Science Society from 1965. He also worked in an advisory capacity outside of Europe, including in Egypt and several West African countries, for which he prepared reports on the organization and development of the transport system . In 1960 he stayed in Iran for this purpose . In 1962 he participated as an expert at the UN conference in Geneva. In 1968 he became an adviser to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation. In November 1973 he was elected to the board of the German Road Safety Council.

Eichhoff was the founder and co-editor of the standard work on road haulage law .

Awards

literature

  • Deutsche Corpszeitung 75 (1974), p. 195 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strasse und Autobahn, Volume 27, Forschungsgesellschaft für das Strassenwesen (Ed.), Verlag Kirschbaum, 1976, page 168.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 37 , 760
personal data
SURNAME Eichhoff, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and traffic lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiendiez
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1976
Place of death Cologne