Hans-Georg Schultz-Gerstein

Hans-Georg Schultz-Gerstein (born September 18, 1942 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer, scientist and science manager. From 1998 to 2004 he was President of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg .

Life

Hans-Georg Schultz-Gerstein is a son of the lawyer Günther Schultz (1911–1993) and Charlotte Gerstein (1919–2006). His younger brother was the journalist Christian Schultz-Gerstein . In 1963 he passed his Abitur at the Albrecht-Thaer-Schule in front of the Holstentor in Hamburg and was a reserve officer candidate in the Bundeswehr until 1965, first as a conscript and then as a regular soldier . He reached the rank of Colonel d. R.

From 1965 to 1969 he studied law and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Hamburg . He completed his studies with the first state examination in law and began a comparative law dissertation at the University of Florence with a grant from the Italian government . In 1973 he was at the University of Giessen in civil law with the thesis The purchase under retention of title in the German and Italian regimes, including the legal status of the buyer to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1974 he passed the assessor exam in Hamburg.

After starting his career at the German Research Foundation , he worked at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg from 1975 to 1981. He was u. a. Head of the Senate Secretariat, Head of the Central Examination Office, Senate Commissioner for “ Art in Architecture ” and press spokesman for the Federal Armed Forces University. In 1981 he became Chancellor of the Lüneburg University of Applied Sciences . From 1998 to 2004 he was President of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, which was given the name "Helmut Schmidt University" under his leadership.

Schultz-Gerstein's academic focus is on constitutional issues of conscientious objection law and academic law. With his thesis that the conscience is not justifiable, he opposes the prevailing opinion and the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court on conscientious objection in several publications. This has not yet been conclusively refuted in legal terms. When dealing with the higher education framework law, he examined in particular the legal deficiencies of the so-called "unitary administration", namely the area of ​​tension between academic self-administration, in which academic freedom has priority, and state administration, which is legally bound and regulated. Here, too, he deviates from the prevailing opinion. In a comment on the university framework law , he edited the state university law of Lower Saxony. He has accompanied German educational policy in his professional life with numerous articles in specialist journals and lectures. During a research stay in the USA with a Fulbright scholarship for education experts, he examined the competitive conditions of American universities and compared the German and American educational world.

From 1997 to 2011 he was chairman of the DAAD- Freundeskreis Bonn and since 2003 member of the board of the Jutta-Heidemann-Foundation in Erfurt, since 2010 its chairman.

Schultz-Gerstein is married and has three children.

literature

• Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 43rd edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2004, ISBN 3-7950-2038-7 , p. 1297.