Horst Kellner

Horst Kellner (born February 7, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer, university professor and politician ( KPD , SED , PDS ). Kellner was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1990 to 1995 .

Life

Horst Kellner was born in Neukölln into a simple family. After primary school he attended the German-Russian School in Berlin-Schöneberg until 1944 and, after the end of the Second World War, a Neukölln secondary school, where he received his Abitur in 1948. He then studied until 1951 at the Berlin Humboldt University Law . After that he was in East Berlin operates the German Institute for Legal Studies and in 1957 with a thesis on the cassation in civil matters in the GDR Dr. jur. PhD. From 1954 he took on teaching positions at the Humboldt University, 1956 a lectureship. He completed his habilitation there in 1964 and was appointed professor in 1966. Kellner was vice dean or dean of the Faculty of Law from 1966 to 1969 and director of the law section of the HUB from 1973 to 1976. 1981 to 1984 he was visiting professor at the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.

Kellner contributed to the reorganization of law studies in the GDR and was significantly involved in the drafting of its labor court regulations, the civil code and the civil procedure code. In the course of German reunification , he lost his chair. Until his retirement in 1995, he was on leave of absence from the HUB. In addition to a large number of other publications at home and abroad, he published "The Activity of Courts in Labor Law Matters" (1966) and "Civil Procedure Law" / textbook / (1980) as the author and leader of collective authors.

politics

Horst Kellner joined the KPD in 1946 and thus joined the SED. After the reunification in the GDR he was elected to the Berlin city council and in 1990 received a direct mandate for one legislative period in the then district of Hohenschönhausen (constituency 2) in the House of Representatives.

Web links

• Biographical note at Lipsia-Presence-Verlag (use search function)