Horst Risse

Horst Risse (born November 15, 1954 in Mechernich ) is a German administrative lawyer . From 2013 to July 2020 he was Director of the German Bundestag with the rank of State Secretary .

Life

Cracks studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn law . Since 1986 he has been an assistant to Karl Josef Partsch , where he also received a doctorate on a topic on international martial law. jur. received his doctorate. Risse was from November 2004 to December 2004 and again from March 2007 to March 2009 Head of the Secretariat of the Joint Commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat for the Modernization of the Federal Order (so-called Federalism Commission I and Federalism Commission II ). With August 2008, he was appointed President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert as head of department in the federal government. There he initially headed Department I, Information and Documentation, and in 2010 changed as Head of Department P to Parliament and MPs .

Bundestag President Lammert appointed Risse as State Secretary and Director at the German Bundestag on December 13, 2012 with effect from January 1, 2013 . In July 2020, Horst cracks adopted after twelve years of service with the federal government in retirement . On August 1, 2020, his successor Lorenz Müller was appointed State Secretary and Director of the German Bundestag.

Awards

• 2007: Great Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria

Works

• Neither model boy nor outsider. On the voting behavior of the Federal Republic of Germany in the UN General Assembly , in: United Nations. Journal for the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies Vol. 31 (1983), pp. 146-150.
• The use of military forces by the United Nations and the international law of war , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1988 (= Europäische Hochschulschriften, Series 2, Jurisprudence, Vol. 702) 1987. ISBN 3-8204-1044-9 .
• Human rights in classic European international law. About early approaches to the internationalization of human rights protection in: The human right between freedom and responsibility , Festschrift for Karl Josef Partsch on his 75th birthday, ed. by Jürgen Jekewitz Berlin (no year) pp. 343–356 ISBN 3-428-06672-3 .
• (Together with Georg-Berndt Oschatz ): European integration and German federalism , in: Europa-Archiv. Contemporary history, contemporary criticism, administration, economic development . Half-monthly publication of the German Society for Foreign Policy. - Part 1, Articles and Reports. Volume 43 (1988), pp. 9-16.
• European Community submissions in the Federal Council. To supplement the Federal Council's rules of procedure , in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) Volume 41 (1988) pp. 2780–2781.
• Federalism and Parliamentarism. Two fundamental structural principles of the democratic federal state in Austria, Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany . Report on a parliamentary inquiry by the Austrian Federal Council, in: Das Parlament , Volume 38 (1988), No. 25/26, p. 8.
• (Together with Georg-Berndt Oschatz ): Bundesrat and European Communities: new procedural rules of the Bundesrat rules of procedure for EC bills , in: The public administration, Vol. 42 (1989), pp. 509-519.
• (Together with Georg-Berndt Oschatz ): Comments on the Federal Council's right to initiate legislation, in: Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung Vol. 4 (1989), pp. 316–331.
• Chained the "dogs of war"? : the United Nations Convention against Mercenary Activities , in: United Nations. Journal for the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies, Vol. 38 (1990), pp. 126-131.
• (Together with Georg-Berndt Oschatz ): The federal government on the chain of states? On the involvement of the Bundesrat in European policy , in: The Public Administration , Vol. 48 (1995), pp. 437–452.
• On the development of the need for approval of federal laws after the federalism reform 2006 , in: Journal for Parliamentary Questions , Vol. 38 (2007), pp. 707–712.
• The new regulation of the need for approval of federal laws through the federalism reform, in: Constitution - between law and politics. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Hans-Peter Schneider , edited by Friedhelm Hufen Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 271–284 ISBN 978-3-8329-2946-6 .
• Federalism reform at a dead end? Report on the commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat for the modernization of the federal order in: The future of federalism in Germany and Europe (73rd Political Science Training Conference, Ed. By Detlef Merten), Berlin 2007, pp. 43–64 ISBN 978-3-428 -12585-2 .
• Federalism Reform II - Status of Negotiations. Consensus and problem areas , in: Der Deutschen Föderalismus 2020. The federal distribution of competencies and finances as reflected in the Federalism Reform I and II (= European Center for Research on Federalism), Baden-Baden 2009, pp. 67–71 ISBN 978-3- 8329-4714-9 .
• The Bundesrat during and after German reunification from the point of view of its administration , in: 60 years Bundesrat . Proceedings of the symposium at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena from October 12 to 14, 2009 (= European Center for Research on Federalism), Baden-Baden. 2011, pp. 30-36 ISBN 978-3-8329-5868-8 .
• Constitutional and Political Limits to Legislative Outsourcing , in: Legislative Outsourcing. Legislation by lawyers? Edited by Michael Kloepfer Baden-Baden (2011), pp. 109–122 ISBN 978-3-8329-6916-5 .
• (Together with Erhard Kathmann): The G 10 and the competence order. Reply to the essay by Matthias Bäcker , in: The public administration . Journal of Public Law and Administrative Science Vol. 65 (2012), pp. 555–560.

literature

• Robert von Lucius : In the background, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 2, from January 3, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Müller: Horst Risse's review of seven years as director. German Bundestag, accessed on August 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Dr. Lorenz Müller becomes the new director of the German Bundestag. German Bundestag, accessed on August 7, 2020 . 

Web links

• Bundestag press release of August 3, 2008: New heads for the parliament and deputies departments as well as information and documentation for the Bundestag administration [1]
• Press release of the German Bundestag from December 13, 2012: Horst Risse new Director at the German Bundestag [2]
• Text archive of the German Bundestag with photo by Horst Risse [3]
• Announcement on the website of Politics & Communication from December 18, 2012 [4]
• Bundestag President Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert welcomes State Secretary Horst Risse on January 17, 2013 as the new director of the Bundestag in the plenary [5]