Günter Zehner

Günter Zehner (born August 29, 1923 in Darmstadt ; † July 21, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Federal Administrative Court .

Life

Zehner was the son of Friedrich Zehner, who worked as a municipal material manager, and his wife Katharina, née Hoffart. From 1934 he attended the Realgymnasium in Darmstadt, but had to leave the school prematurely with a certificate of maturity, since he was drafted into the Navy in April 1941 . From August 1942 he served in the submarine weapon on board. Here he achieved the rank of first lieutenant at sea . After the sinking of a submarine on which he was deployed, he was rescued as one of the few survivors after several hours of distress . He was later taken prisoner by the English, from which he was released in June 1947.

After completing his high school diploma in a special course, he began studying law at the University of Frankfurt at the end of 1948 . He passed the state exams in 1952 and 1955. In 1953 he had obtained his doctorate in law on "Sum insured and interested parties".

In 1956 he joined the Hessian judicial service. After one and a half years at the Ministry of Justice , he was first appointed as assessor at the Darmstadt Regional Court and then as a District Court Counselor at the Bensheim District Court . From 1960 he was first in the second and then in the first Senate presidential council of the Federal Constitutional Court , most recently with the rank of government councilor. In the first senate he cultivated personal relationships with the court president Gebhard Müller and was considered his right-hand man. During this time, he also published a two-volume documentary on the television dispute decided by the Federal Constitutional Court .

In 1966 he was elected judge at the Federal Administrative Court. Initially, he was a member of the 7th Audit Senate , which is responsible for examination law and university law. In October 1981 he was appointed presiding judge of the 5th revision senate , which mainly deals with social law. On August 1, 1986, he was also appointed Vice President of the Federal Administrative Court. He retired at the end of August 1990.

Afterwards, despite his poor health, he still acted as the ombudsman of the Treuhandanstalt . After a long illness, Zehner died in Berlin in 2002 at the age of 78.

literature

• Günter Zehner: Sum insured and interested parties. Dissertation from 1953, self-written curriculum vitae on p. 95.
• Rainer Pietzner : Günter Zehner †. In: New Journal for Administrative Law 2002, p. 1211.

Web links

• Press release of the Federal Administrative Court No. 25/2002 of July 24, 2002: Vice-President of the Federal Administrative Court ret. Ten died