Günter Herrmann (General Manager)

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Günter Herrmann (2006)

Günter Herrmann (born March 31, 1931 in Leipzig ) is a German lawyer and media lawyer . He was director of the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB).

Life

Herrmann was born on March 31, 1931 in Leipzig, the second of five children of Ernst Hugo Robert Herrmann and Anna Therese Johanna, née Schatte. After graduating from high school in 1949 at the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig , he began an apprenticeship as a reproduction photographer at the Meissner & Buch GmbH publishing house . He moved to the Federal Republic and worked for the Brunotte company in Düsseldorf from 1952 to 1954 .

From 1954 to 1957 he studied law at the universities of Tübingen , Cologne and Bonn . At Cologne University doctorate he 1961 Dr. jur. with his dissertation Johann Nikolaus Hert and the German doctrine of the statutes (= New Cologne legal treatises ).

In 1961 he became an in-house lawyer at Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne. In 1966 he was a co-founder of the Institute for Broadcasting Law. From 1971 to 1986 he was legal director of the WDR (successor to Hans Brack ). At the same time he was deputy director at WDR from 1981 to 1986. Günter Herrmann was elected director of the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) in 1986 . At the instigation of the SFB Broadcasting Council, however, his director's contract was terminated prematurely in 1989.

From 1969 to 1973 he was a lecturer in press and broadcasting law at the Ruhr University in Bochum . His habilitation thesis in 1974 was supported by the German Research Foundation and dealt with the topic of television and radio in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany - at the same time a contribution to other general constitutional and communication law issues ( basic service , functional guarantee , etc.). In 1974 he taught at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In the same year he became a member of the Institute for Copyright and Media Law in Munich. From 1991 to 2007 he lectured at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Since 1983 he has been co-editor of the archive for copyright, film, radio and theater law in Bern. From the plethora of publications on media law issues, the short textbook Broadcasting Law - Television and Radio with New Media (1994, 2nd edition 2004) should also be mentioned. Herrmann presented his anthroposophical perspective on legal life in the anthology Sources for a New Legal Life and a Human Society from the work of Rudolf Steiner - Anthroposophy and Jurisprudence (2000).

He has been working as a lawyer in the Allgäu since 1989 .

Works (selection)

  • Johan Nikolaus Hert and the German doctrine of the statutes. New Cologne jurisprudential treatises . Published by the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne. Issue 25. 176 pages. Berlin 1963.
  • Hans Brack, Günter Herrmann, Hans-Peter Hillig : Organization of broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany 1948–1962 . 200 pages. Hamburg 1962.
  • Broadcasting laws (television and radio) . Text collection. 376 pages. Cologne-Berlin-Bonn-Munich. 1st edition 1966. 2nd, revised edition 1977.
  • Television and radio in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany . At the same time, a contribution to other general constitutional and communication law issues. 422 pages. Tuebingen 1975.
  • Broadcasting law. TV and radio with new media . Short legal textbook for study and practice. 789 + XLII pages. Munich 1994; with Matthias Lausen: 878 + LII pages. 2nd edition Munich 2004.
  • Bavarian media law shortly before the turn of the millennium . With special consideration of the broadcasters according to the Bavarian Media Act. 188 pages. Baden-Baden 1995.
  • Sources for a new legal life and a human society from the work of Rudolf Steiner - Anthroposophy and Jurisprudence . 1192 pages. Dornach / Switzerland 2000.
  • Law and justice. Spiritual science impulses for a just and humane coexistence . 268 pages. Dornach / Switzerland 2007.
  • Justice !: Impulses for a human legal life . 167 pages. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media lawyer and broadcast director
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig