Hans Peter Bull

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Hans Peter Bull (* 17th October 1936 in Luebben in the Spreewald ) is a German heads of state and administrative law . He was the first federal commissioner for data protection and was Minister of the Interior in Schleswig-Holstein for seven years .

Life

Bull was born the son of the judge and lawyer Hans-Joachim Bull (1906–1977) and his wife Ilse, née Havenstein. He attended school in Hamburg from 1947. After graduating from high school, he studied law in Hamburg , Marburg and at the Free University of Berlin from 1956 to 1960 . This was followed by the 1963 Promotion to Doctor of Law and in 1966 the second state examination . In 1972 , Bull completed his habilitation in constitutional and administrative law.

Bull has been a member of the SPD since 1967 , where he took over the office of chairman of the state arbitration commission in Hamburg . From 1973 to 1978 Bull was then professor for public law at the University of Hamburg; from 1978 to 1983 he was Federal Commissioner for Data Protection . Between 1983 and 1988 he resumed his work as a professor at the University of Hamburg until he became Minister of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein in 1988 . He held this office until 1995. Since then, Bull has been working again as a professor at the University of Hamburg, since 2002 retired. From 1997 to 2003 he held the office of deputy chairman of the Federal Arbitration Commission of the SPD. Bull is also a member of the Working Group of Social Democratic Lawyers (AsJ) in Hamburg.

Today he takes a rather moderate stance compared to incumbent data protection officers, which may not least be due to his work as state interior minister. He does not see data protection as a value in itself, but merely as a counterweight and corrective means against improper data processing . He rejects extensive data protection, such as that represented by Simitis , Bäumler and Weichert , as patronizing and incapacitating the citizen. Instead, he emphasizes the position of the individual as a community-related being and points out the need for a socially adequate flow of information.

Bull is married and has two children.

literature

  • Veith Mehde, Ulrich Ramsauer and Margrit Seckelmann (eds.): State, administration, information. Festschrift for Hans Peter Bull on his 75th birthday (Public Law Writings (SÖR), Volume 1195) , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13448-9 .

Work (selection)

  • Management by machines. Legal problems of the mechanization of administration . 2nd edition, Grote, Cologne and Berlin 1964, also: Dissertation, Hamburg 1964.
  • The state tasks according to the Basic Law. 2nd edition, Athenäum-Verlag, Kronberg / Ts. 1977, ISBN 3-7610-6136-6 ; also: Habilitation thesis, University of Hamburg, 1972.
  • Foreword to Karl Twesten : The Prussian Official State (1866), reprint. Darmstadt 1979, ISBN 3-534-07727-X
  • Objectives and means of data protection. Demands for the amendment of the Federal Data Protection Act . Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts. 1981, ISBN 3-7610-6351-2 .
  • General administrative law. A textbook . Athenäum-Verlag, Königstein / Ts. 1982, ISBN 3-7610-6378-4 ; 8th edition with Veith Mehde under the title: General administrative law with administrative theory . Müller, Heidelberg [et al.] 2009, ISBN 978-3-8114-9701-6
  • Data protection or the fear of the computer. Piper-Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-492-02863-2 .
  • Rejection to the state? Why Germany is better than its reputation. Forward book, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86602-095-3 .
  • Data protection, freedom of information and legal policy. Collected Essays. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11759-X .
  • Questions of doubt about informational self-determination - data protection as a data task? In: New legal weekly . 2006, pp. 1617-1624.
  • From public servant to public service provider. On the future of service law . edition sigma, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89404-747-4
  • Scare tactics instead of education. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 17, 2009, p. 8

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Bull, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebben (Spreewald)