Heinrich Koller (lawyer)

Heinrich Koller (born July 17, 1941 in Ettiswil ) is a Swiss lawyer , from 1988 to 2006 director of the Federal Office of Justice in the Federal Department of Justice and Police, associate professor for public law and lawyer in Basel .

Career

Heinrich Koller attended middle school in Sursee and made the Matura at Collège St-Michel in Friborg . He studied economics and social sciences in St. Gallen, Paris and Winnipeg (lic. Oec. HSG 1966) and then law in Basel (lic.iur. 1970), where, after an assistantship with Kurt Eichenberger , he did his doctorate with a dissertation on financial law ( Dr. iur. ). This was followed by court and notary internships in Olten and Solothurn (patented as advocate and notary in 1977) and training as a general staff officer .

Heinrich Koller is a member of the CVP .

Professional activities

From 1979 to 1988 he was legal and tax advisor at Ciba-Geigy AG in Basel with previous training periods at tax authorities in French -speaking Switzerland and at a subsidiary in New York ; responsible for questions of national and international tax law , especially in connection with acquisitions and restructuring. Additionally from 1983 editor and coordinator of the publication of a commentary on the Federal Constitution of 1874 and from 1985 to 1988 substitute judge at the appellate court of the canton of Basel-Stadt . From 1987 he was also a lecturer .

From 1988 to 2006 he was Director of the Federal Office of Justice in the FDJP in Bern under the Federal Councilors Kopp, Koller, Metzler, Blocher. Heinrich Koller was responsible for important legislative projects in Bern, such as the total revision of the Federal Constitution, the reform of the judiciary , the establishment of the federal courts of first instance and numerous legislative revisions in civil and criminal law. From 1992 to 2007 he was also President of the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law in Lausanne. In 2011 he presided over the working group set up by Federal Councilor Sommaruga to implement the deportation initiative .

Heinrich Koller has been working as a lawyer in Basel again since 2006 and is still active in teaching and research. He advises institutions and organizations and is a member of the International Board of Regents at Bethlehem University in Palestine. From 2009 to 2016 he chaired the board of directors of REHAB Basel AG (Center for Neurorehabilitation and Paraplegiology).

Scientific activity

As a lecturer and since 1994 as associate professor , Heinrich Koller has taught public law at the University of Basel, initially primarily public commercial law and administrative law , from 1994 to 2007 mainly responsible for public procedural law. He appeared and continues to appear as a speaker at specialist events. Heinrich Koller has expressed himself in numerous articles in specialist journals on ongoing legislative projects, in particular on the new federal constitution, and has contributed to comments. In addition, he co-authored a third edition textbook on public procedural law. He has made particular merits as editor and coordinator of a commentary on the Federal Constitution of 1874, which was published as a loose-leaf commentary in French and German from 1987 to 1996 and which provided indispensable help in the 1999 constitutional reform.

Publications

monograph

• The public budget as an instrument of state and economic control, Diss. Iur. Basel 1981 (awarded the Cooperative Prize of the University of Basel in 1982 and the Prof. Walther Hug Prize 1983).

Textbook

• Public procedural law, 3rd edition Basel 2014 (together with R. Rhinow, Chr. Kiss, D. Thurnherr, D. Brühl-Moser).

Editing and editing

• Commentary on the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation of May 29, 1874 (edited by JF. Aubert, K. Eichenberger, JP. Müller, R. Rhinow, D. Schindler), Basel / Zurich / Bern 1983–1996.
• Swiss Federal Administrative Law [SBVR] (edited by Heinrich Koller, Georg Müller, René Rhinow, Ulrich Zimmer et al.), Basel 1996–2009.

Festschrift

• From the Werkstatt des Rechts, Festschrift on the occasion of Heinrich Koller's 65th birthday (edited by employees of the Federal Office of Justice, editor Benjamin Schinder), Basel 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Koller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Koller's website at the law firm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Criticism of the former head of office Heinrich Koller: "Blocher's statements are untenable". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved July 29, 2016 .