Georg Ress

Georg Ress (born January 21, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German legal scholar . He was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg from 1998 to 2004.

Life

Ress studied law, political science and economics at the Free University of Berlin (1955–1959), the University of Grenoble (1956) and at the University of Vienna (1959–1962). In 1963 he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD . He was initially a lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna from 1965 to 1967 and a lecturer at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg from 1966 to 1976. In 1972 he was promoted to Dr. iur. utriusque doctorate; In 1976 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg . He is married to Franziska-Ulrike Hammerstein-Equord, the daughter of the Austrian politician Hans von Hammerstein-Equord .

After a brief activity in 1976 as a government director in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice and an employee at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, he received appointments at the Universities of Regensburg, Friborg and Saarbrücken in 1977 and followed the appointment as full professor for public law, international and European law at the University of Saarland . In 1982 he received offers to the University of Speyer and Bonn, which he turned down. From 1977 to 1998 he was director of the Europa-Institut . In 2001 he held his farewell lecture in Saarbrücken. Ress was visiting professor at Danube University Krems . In 2006, Ress took over the endowed professorship in International Law at Jacobs University Bremen in Bremen (until 2015).

Since 1956, Ress has been a member of the Catholic student association KAV Suevia Berlin in the CV .

In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

European Court of Human Rights

From 1980 to 1998, Ress was a member of the international law advisory board of the Foreign Office , from 1994 to 1999 German member of the European Commission for Human Rights in Strasbourg. From 1998 to 2004, Ress was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg .

honors and awards

He developed the graduate course "European Integration" at Saarland University and expanded the cooperation with the European Institute at Edinburgh University . Georg Ress was awarded honorary doctorates from the Keiō University in Tokyo (1992), the Université Paris Descartes (Paris V; 1992) and the University of Edinburgh (2000) for his numerous engagements . Since 1987 he was a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences in Helsinki , since June 2003 Ress was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna .

In addition, he received the Great Golden Cross of Honor of the Republic of Austria in 1993 and the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class in 2005 . In 2008 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit. In 2018 he received the Saarland Order of Merit from Prime Minister Tobias Hans .

Fonts (selection)

• State purposes in the constitutional state - after 40 years of the Basic Law , de Gruyter 1990, ISBN 311012565X , together with Heinz Ch Link, Jörn Ipsen , Dietrich Murswiek , Bernhard Schlink
• Russia and the WTO. Comparative analysis of Russian and WTO law , Nomos 2004, ISBN 3-832-90769-6
• European law in the age of globalization , Linde Vienna 2004, ISBN 3707304485 , together with Heribert Fr. Köck, Alina Lengauer
• The decision-making power in administrative jurisdiction , Vienna 1968, ISBN 978-3211808610
• The legal position of Germany according to the Basic Treaty of December 21, 1972 , Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-540-08416-9

literature

• Jürgen Bröhmer, Roland Bieber, Christian Calliess , Christine Langenfeld, Stefan Weber, Joachim Wolf: International Community and Human Rights. Festschrift for Georg Ress on his 70th birthday. Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-452-25862-9 ( PDF ).
• Jürgen Bröhmer: The protection of human rights at the beginning of the 21st century: colloquium in honor of Professor Dr. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Georg Ress on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-383-29730-8-7 .
• Jürgen Bröhmer: Colloquium on current European, international and human rights issues on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Georg Ress. Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-2657-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Festschrift for Georg Ress on his 70th birthday on January 21, 2005, accessed on August 4, 2010.
2. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Ress in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detailed biography of Georg Ress (PDF file; 184 kB)