Gregor Geller

Gregor Geller (born July 8, 1903 in Neuss ; † August 28, 1988 ) was a German judge.

Career

Geller studied law at the Universities of Cologne and Berlin , passed the first state examination in Cologne in 1924 and the second state examination in Berlin in 1929. In 1929 he came to the Krefeld district court as a judge and was later appointed to the district judge. In 1948 he went to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court as a judge and was appointed to the Higher Regional Court and was President of a Senate from 1948 to 1951.

From 1951 to 1955 he was ministerial director in the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia , then from 1955 to 1960 ministerial director in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs . At the same time he was a member of the Social Committee of the Council of Europe , the Social Committee of the Western European Union and a representative on the Administrative Council of the International Labor Organization (ILO).

From August 4, 1960 to August 31, 1963 Geller was department head at the Intergovernmental Committee on European Emigration (ICEM) in Geneva.

After being elected for a term of eight years by the Federal Council , he was a member of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court from September 1, 1963 to December 8, 1971, as the successor to Ernst Friesenhahn . His successor was the judge Joachim Rottmann .

He is the founder of a commentary on the constitution for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Honors

• 1968: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Gregor Geller , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 26/1969 of June 16, 1969, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• The Supreme Court. 2nd edition, 1971, p. 222