Gerhard Robbers

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Gerhard Robbers (born November 17, 1950 in Bonn ) is Professor of Public Law , Canon Law , State Philosophy and Constitutional History at the University of Trier and was Minister of Justice of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate from November 12, 2014 to May 18, 2016 .

Life

At the age of 16 Robbers received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation to attend the international high school boarding school Atlantic College in Wales, Great Britain. Here, together with students from 80 countries, he obtained his university entrance qualification in 1969. Robbers then studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and was there in 1979 with a thesis on justice as a principle of law doctorate . From 1982 to 1984 he was a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court . In 1986 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg with the thesis “Security as a Human Right”. He was initially a professor at the universities inSaarbrücken , Göttingen and Munich .

In 1988, he took a call to the Chair of Public Law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg on. In 1989 he moved to the University of Trier . Gerhard Robbers headed the Institute for European Constitutional Law and was executive director of the Institute for Legal Policy at the University of Trier . From 1997 to 2008 he was a part-time judge at the Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate and from 2008 to 2014 at the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate . Robbers was the federal government's representative before the Federal Constitutional Court in various proceedings . Since November 12, 2014 Robbers has been Jochen Hartloff's successor as Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in Malu Dreyer's cabinet . He is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers . With the formation of the SPD-FDP-Green coalition on May 18, 2016, he left the state government. Herbert Mertin was his successor .

From 2007 to 2013 he was a member of the Presidium Board of the German Evangelical Church Congress and was the President of the 34th German Evangelical Church Congress 2013 in Hamburg. He was also one of the directors of the Institute for Protestant Canon Law , an affiliate of the University of Potsdam .

Robbers is married, has four children and lives with his family in Trier.

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Constitutional problems in public law work. Beck, Munich 1996; 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-406-53498-8 .
  • Introduction to German law. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994; 5th edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-7486-2 .
  • Security as a human right Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden; 1st edition 1987, ISBN 3-7890-1388-9
  • Justice as a principle of law. Nomos publishing company, Baden-Baden; 1st edition 1980, ISBN 3-7890-0529-0 .

As editor:

  • State and Church in the European Union. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996; 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1311-4 .
  • Encyclopedia of World Constitutions. 3 volumes. Facts on File, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8160-6078-9 .

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Robbers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UWC works in the legal system: Prof. Gerhard Robbers. (No longer available online.) In: UWC works. German Foundation United World Colleges, p. 22 , archived from the original on April 15, 2014 ; Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Bernd Wientjes: A man of quiet words who does not like to be in the limelight - Trier law professor Gerhard Robbers is to be the new Minister of Justice. In: volksfreund.de. Trierischer Volksfreund, November 4, 2014, accessed on November 8, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Appointed to the Cabinet. (No longer available online.) Rhineland-Palatinate - The state government, November 12, 2014, archived from the original on November 15, 2014 ; accessed on November 15, 2014 .
  4. ^ Message on Jenapolis.de of October 28, 2011 ( Memento of October 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ New committee members and new president for the Kirchentag ( Memento from December 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), website of the German Evangelical Church Congress, accessed on November 30, 2011
  6. ↑ Employees. Evangelical Institute for Canon Law at the University of Potsdam, accessed on November 19, 2014 .
  7. ↑ New Minister of Justice in the SWR interview: "I immediately said yes". SWR television, November 6, 2014, accessed on November 15, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Robbers, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, professor for public law, Minister of Justice Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn