Herbert Landau

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Herbert Landau

Herbert Landau (born April 26, 1948 in Wilnsdorf - Wilgersdorf , Siegerland) is a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a baker and pastry chef in his parents' bakery (1966–1969), he did his basic military service until 1970. He then studied social work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum (1970–1973) before he was employed as a social worker in youth work until 1976 . From 1974 to 1979 he studied law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and received a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In 1979 he passed the first state examination and in 1982 the second state examination. In the same year he joined the judicial service of the state of Hesse and was appointed judge for life in 1985. However, he was first sent to the Federal Ministry of Justice , then to the administration of the German Bundestag . In 1987 he became a judge at the Dillenburg District Court , shortly afterwards personal assistant to the Hessian Minister of Justice Karl-Heinz Koch . In 1988 he was appointed judge at the Higher Regional Court . In 1989 and 1990 he was commissioned by the Hessian Ministry of Justice to provide construction aid in Thuringia .

From 1991 to 1996 he was the Chief Public Prosecutor at the Limburg Regional Court until he was elected federal judge in 1996. In 1996 he became a judge in the 1st criminal division of the Federal Court of Justice . In 1999 he was appointed State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Justice. On September 23, 2005, Landau was unanimously elected judge of the Federal Constitutional Court by the Federal Council on the basis of the CDU / CSU's right of proposal. He took office on October 1, 2005. On July 20, 2016, Landau left the Second Senate when he reached the age limit of 68. His successor was Christine Langenfeld .

Since 2017 he has been working for a law firm in Siegen and advises on questions of public law and constitutional law. He is also responsible for conciliation and arbitration proceedings as well as mediation.

Herbert Landau is married with five children and still has his main residence in Wilgersdorf .

Act

Since 2000 he has been a lecturer at the University of Marburg . In 2006 Landau was appointed honorary professor at the Philipps University of Marburg . In his official inaugural lecture, Landau took the view that the administration of criminal justice is part of the state's monopoly on the use of force and is therefore one of its compulsory tasks. In doing so, he gives the topos of the proper administration of criminal justice a new twist that is unusual in the legal and political debate up to now. The Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court at the time, Winfried Hassemer, called this approval capable . Landau has written numerous publications, including on constitutional, criminal and civil service law, and is co-editor of the New Journal for Criminal Law (NStZ).

In October 2016, Professor Landau was entrusted by the Saxon State Government with the management of the expert commission “Police investigative work and the execution of sentences in terrorist suicide bombers in the Albakr case”. This was used to clarify the entire process from identification to the failed access to the suicide of terror suspect Jaber Albakr on October 12 in a cell in the prison in Leipzig . After three months of work, numerous site visits and almost 100 hearings from people from very different federal and state authorities, the four-member Landau Commission presented its highly regarded final report to Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich on January 24, 2017 in Dresden and explained the results and recommendations to the public. In her report she complains about a “culture of incompetence” and criticizes numerous wrong decisions and rule violations by authorities at federal and state level.

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Herbert Landau resigns from office , press release of the Federal Constitutional Court No. 44/2016 of July 19, 2016
  2. ↑ Herbert Landau website , Schleifenbaum & Adler law firm, accessed on January 7, 2019
  3. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/startseite_artikel,-Ex-Richter-leitet-Kommission-_arid,1482217.html
  4. ↑ Stefan Locke: "An abundance of wrong decisions". In: FAZ.net . January 24, 2017, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/expertenkommission-zum-fall-albakr-schlussbericht-offenbart-pannen-bei-fahndung/19300046.html
  6. ↑ Change of judges at the Federal Constitutional Court - Dismissal, honor and appointment by the Federal President , Federal President's Office of July 20, 2016, accessed on January 7, 2019
  7. ^ Change of judges at the Federal Constitutional Court - dismissal and honor of Herbert Landau as well as appointment of Christine Langenfeld , Federal President's Office of July 20, 2016, accessed on January 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Landau, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilgersdorf , Siegerland