Hans-Joachim Driehaus

Hans-Joachim Driehaus (born September 28, 1940 in Lupow , Stolp district ) was presiding judge at the Federal Administrative Court .

biography

Driehaus grew up in Engter near Osnabrück, where his father practiced as a general practitioner. He completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk . After studying law in Münster , Innsbruck , London and Bonn and passing the second state examination in law, he became a research assistant for Jürgen Warnke, member of the Bundestag, in 1971 .

In 1973 he was appointed judge on probation and assigned to the Düsseldorf Administrative Court . In the following year, he was appointed judge at the administrative court with a simultaneous appointment as a judge for life. In 1978 he was transferred to the Higher Administrative Court for the states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein and appointed judge at the Higher Administrative Court. In May 1981 he was appointed judge at the Federal Administrative Court.

While he was a member of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court , Driehaus was seconded to the Federal Council Secretariat as a research assistant for six months and to the Federal Administrative Court for a further year . In 1985 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Lüneburg .

In the Federal Administrative Court, Driehaus was initially a member of the 8th Revision Senate responsible for tax law, compulsory military service and housing benefit law. When he was appointed presiding judge in 1997, he took over the chairmanship of the third revision senate responsible for burden equalization and compensation law, health, food and agricultural law as well as traffic and subsidy law.

In addition to his work as a federal judge, Driehaus was a judge at the Constitutional Court of Berlin from 1992 to 2000 and a member of the Presidium of the Berlin Regional Association of the German Red Cross since December 2000 , initially as a legal advisor and from 2003 to 2008 as vice-president. Since leaving his judicial office in 2005, he has been working as a lawyer and business mediator (IHK), and in 2009 he also joined the vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development as a freelancer .

Works (excerpt)

1. Municipal tax law, loose-leaf, 40th edition, Verlag Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe, Herne / Berlin
2. Berlin Commentary on the Building Code, 3rd edition, loose leaf, 13th edition, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne
3. Road construction contribution law in Berlin, Berlin-Schöneberg: Grundigentum-Verlag, 2009, 2nd edition
4. Between tax law and constitutional law, Herne: NWB, Verlag Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe, 2005
5. Constitution of Berlin, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, 3rd edition
6. Development contribution law in Baden-Württemberg according to the new version of the Municipal Tax Act, Verlag Dt. Volksheimstättenwerk, 2005, 1st edition
7. Development and road construction contribution law in essays, VHW-Verlag, 2009, 2nd edition
8. Development and expansion contributions, Beck Verlag, 2007, 8th revised edition
9. The jurisprudence of the Federal Administrative Court on development and development contribution law, Verlag, Dt. Volksheimstättenwerk, 1999, 10th revised edition
10. Introduction to general administrative law, Beck Verlag, 1996, 3rd revised and expanded. Edition
11. Construction Law - Current, Festschrift for Felix Weyreuther, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne, 1993
12. Introduction to housing benefit law in the old and new federal states, Verlag Dt. People's home workshops, 1991
13. The road construction contribution law of the states in the higher court case law, Bonn, Verlag Dt. Volksheimstättenwerk, 1983, 3rd edition

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Driehaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Prof. Dr. Driehaus
• Between tax law and constitutional law - Festschrift for the 65th birthday, NWB 2005 ISBN 3-482-54641-X