Hans Hugo Klein

Hans Hugo Klein (born August 5, 1936 in Karlsruhe ) is a German legal scholar and CDU politician who was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court from 1983 to 1996 .

Life

After graduating from high school at Bismarck-Gymnasium Karlsruhe, Klein studied law in Heidelberg and Munich in 1954 , where he completed his first state examination in law in 1958 and his doctorate in 1961 . He then switched to the administrative service in Baden-Württemberg , but did not lose sight of the scientific career that led to his habilitation in 1967 on the subject of “State participation in economic competition” with Ernst Forsthoff at the University of Heidelberg. In 1969, Hans Hugo Klein accepted a professorship for public law at the University of Göttingen , where he taught until his retirement in 2001.

In 1970 he joined the CDU, for which he was a member of the German Bundestag from 1972 to 1983 . In 1972, 1976 and 1980 he entered parliament via the state list of the CDU Lower Saxony and in 1983 won the direct mandate in the Göttingen constituency . From 1982 to 1983 he was also Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice under Hans A. Engelhard .

In 1983 he was appointed judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. There Klein was a member of the Second Senate of the court. His portfolio included party law, public service law and staff representation law. His successor was Hans-Joachim Jentsch .

For constitutional law Hans Hugo Klein believes that it is in the fundamental law is a mixed constitution IN QUESTION. The democratic constitutional state of the Federal Republic of Germany is mixed , since democracy is not absolute. The concept of representative democracy is of particular importance . In spite of the criticism often leveled at them, the political parties are a constitutionally necessary part of the free and democratic basic order.

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SURNAME	Klein, Hans Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar, politician (CDU). Member of the Bundestag, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
DATE OF BIRTH	August 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlsruhe