Ferdinand Kirchhof

Ferdinand Kirchhof (born June 21, 1950 in Osnabrück ) is a German lawyer , legal scholar and former Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court .

family

Ferdinand Kirchhof came from the marriage of Ferdinand Kirchhof sr. , who was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1959 to 1979 , and Liselotte, née Kersten. His older brother is the former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court Paul Kirchhof .

He is married to Else Kirchhof - presiding judge at the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim - and has no children.

Life

Ferdinand Kirchhof studied after his Abitur at the Bismarck-Gymnasium Karlsruhe at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer , received his doctorate and habilitation from 1971 to 1985. From 1982 to 1986 he taught in Saarbrücken , Munich , Speyer and Tübingen. In 1986, he was the Chair of Public Law, Finance and Tax Law at the Eberhard Karls University appointed . From 1989 to 1990 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law, and from 1999 to 2004 Vice-Rector of the University of Tübingen. Since 1993 he has held the Jean Monnet Chair of the EU European Fiscal Law . In 2007 he was visiting professor (professeur invité) at the Paris Sorbonne ; he completed teaching and research stays in Stellenbosch , Berkeley , Beijing and Kyōto .

From 2003 to 2004 he was an expert on the Bundestag and Bundesrat commission on federalism reform . Since 2003, Kirchhof Richter has been involved in the headscarf dispute at the State Court of Baden-Württemberg and as an attorney for Baden-Württemberg at the Federal Constitutional Court . From 2006 to 2007 he was a board member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers .

In 2005 Ferdinand Kirchhof was to be appointed judge of the Federal Constitutional Court at the suggestion of the then Prime Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Erwin Teufel . However, the Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch succeeded in pushing through his candidate Herbert Landau instead . In 2007, Kirchhof was appointed by the election committee of the German Bundestag to succeed Udo Steiner as judge in the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court; he took office on October 1, 2007. On March 5, 2010 he was elected Chairman of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court and Vice-President of the Court. He officiated in this function from the appointment by the Federal President on March 16, 2010. As judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, he prepared the Federal Constitutional Court's judgment of February 9, 2010 on Hartz IV as the competent rapporteur . On November 30, 2018, he quit his work at the Federal Constitutional Court because he had reached the age limit.

Kirchhof has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau since 1971 and of the KDSt.V. from 1973 to 1974 and since 2011 . Ferdinandea-Prague in Heidelberg .

Publications

• The amount of the fee. Fundamentals of fee assessment , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-428-04936-5 [dissertation at the University of Heidelberg 1981]
• Private legislation , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-06252-3 [Habilitation thesis at the University of Administrative Science Speyer 1985]
• From tax state to tax state , in: Die Verwaltung. Journal for administrative law and administrative sciences, 21, 1988, issue 2, pages 137–153.
• Financial transfers from separate households in the state: Social insurance, radio, European Recovery Program , in: Hartmut Maurer (Ed.): The accepted Basic Law: Festschrift for Günter Dürig on his 70th birthday , CH Beck, Munich 1990, pages 447-467.
• The cooperation between the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice. Adding or optimizing the protection of fundamental rights? , in: Matthias Herdegen (Ed.): Staatsrecht und Politik. Festschrift for Roman Herzog for his 75th birthday , CH Beck, Munich 2009, pages 155–171.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Kirchhof follows in the footsteps of the brother” , Die Welt , July 5, 2007
2. ^ Vosskuhle becomes the new President of the Constitutional Court , Zeit Online from March 5, 2010
3. ^ Judgment of February 9, 2010, Az. 1 BvL 1/09 et al
4. ↑ Reinhard Müller, constitutional judge Ferdinand Kirchhof: Der Professor , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 17, 2010.
5. ↑ Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kirchhof leaves office. In: Press release No. 83/2018. Federal Constitutional Court, November 30, 2018, accessed on December 2, 2018 . 

Web links

• Web presence of Professor Kirchhof at the University of Tübingen