Hermann Maassen

Hermann Maassen (born October 12, 1915 in Cologne , † February 25, 2008 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and from 1969 to 1971 a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Justice .

Life and work

Maassen had a doctorate in law and initially worked at the Federal Ministry of Justice, where he was involved in the penal law amendments of the 1950s and 1960s. He was in the 1950s, with Eduard Dreher co-founder of the explanatory commentary on the Criminal Code in the CH Beck publishing house , which is now under the name Lackner / cooling - Criminal Code with explanations (Editor: Karl Lackner , Kristian cooling ) appears in the 26th edition (2007) . After finishing his work in the public service, he worked as a lawyer .

He appeared before the Federal Constitutional Court several times . He represented the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the 1973 budget overrun proceedings ( BVerfGE 45, 1 ff.). In the proceedings concerning the constitutionality of the dissolution of the Bundestag in 1983 , he represented the Federal President Karl Carstens (BVerfGE 62, 1 ff.). While the party he represented in each of these cases was victorious, he was defeated as an agent for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the proceedings for the constitutionality of the Fourth Pension Insurance Amendment Act, which concerned the issue of the need for approval by the Federal Council (BVerfGE 37, 363 ff.) .

In 1982, along with Walther Fürst , Heino Kaack , Hans-Peter Schneider and Horst Vogel, he was a member of an expert commission set up by Federal President Karl Carstens to develop proposals for a future regulation of party financing in connection with the Flick affair . The report submitted on March 18, 1983 was incorporated into the new regulations on party financing adopted in December 1983.

In 1984 Maassen took part in the founding of the lawyers' association Lebensrecht , an organization that campaigns for stricter abortion law.

In 1934 Maassen became a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Rheno-Franconia Munich in the CV . Later he became a member of the KDStV Bavaria Bonn .

Public offices

From June 1969 to November 1971 Maassen was a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice.

Publications

• with Elmar Hucko: Thomas Dehler. The first Federal Minister of Justice , Bundesanzeiger-Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1977