Jörg Berkemann

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Jörg Berkemann (born October 28, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer . He was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig and is honorary professor for public law at the University of Hamburg and lecturer at the Bucerius Law School .

Career

After studying law in Hamburg, Jörg Berkemann passed the first state examination in 1961 and the second state examination in 1967. On December 2, 1966, the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg awarded him a doctorate in law with a dissertation on the subject of "State capital participation in stock corporations with special consideration of budgetary provisions". The doctoral supervisor was Hans Peter Ipsen .

From 1968 to 1970 Jörg Berkemann was a research assistant at the Federal Administrative Court in the 7th Senate and from 1970 to 1976 a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court . While maintaining his secondment to the Federal Constitutional Court, he was appointed court assessor in Hamburg in 1971 and in 1972 he was appointed regional court advisor in Hamburg .

At the same time, he studied philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and later at the Technical University of Karlsruhe from 1969 . With his dissertation under Hans Lenk on the subject of "Studies on Kant's attitude to the right of resistance", he received his doctorate in philosophy there in 1972.

After the end of his secondment, Jörg Berkemann began his service at the Hamburg Regional Court , but was transferred to the Hamburg Administrative Court on October 1, 1977 . After a six-month secondment to the Hamburg Higher Administrative Court , he became a member of this court on June 28, 1978. After his election as judge at the Federal Administrative Court, from December 22, 1983 to October 31, 2002, he was a member of the 4th Revision Senate, which was primarily responsible for building and land law as well as road and right of way. Since 1987 he has been the legal representative of the Federal Administrative Court. The Federal Ministry of Justice sent him to the Expert Council of juris GmbH in 1992 , where he later became a member of the newly formed advisory board.

In addition to his numerous, professionally diversified legal publications with a focus on constitutional and (European) environmental law as well as building and planning law, Jörg Berkemann (partly together with Ina Lorenz ) has been researching and publishing on the history of the Jews in Hamburg for decades.

Honors

In 2014 Jörg Berkemann received the “Medal of Honor for Services to Law and Legal Development” from the Bucerius Law School . The laudator was the judge at the Federal Constitutional Court a. D. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem . In January 2017, he and his co-author Ina Lorenz received the Obermayer German Jewish History Award in Berlin for the joint 7-volume work "The Hamburg Jews in the Nazi State 1933 to 1938/39", which was based on 20 years of research . The Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate in April 2018; The laudator was the judge at the Federal Constitutional Court Dr. Ulrich Maidowski .

Publications (selection)

  • The Hamburg Jews in the Nazi state 1933 to 1938/39 (with Ina Lorenz ). Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, volumes 1–7, ISBN 978-3-8353-1811-3 .
  • Dispute at the Ottensen Jewish cemetery 1663–1993 (with Ina Lorenz ). Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 1995, Volume 1–2, ISBN 3-926174-67-6 .
  • Handbook on the law of the EU's building and environmental directives (edited with Günter Halama). 2., ext. Edition, vhw-Verlag service, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-87941-950-0 .
  • State equity participation in joint-stock companies (legal dissertation). Appel, Hamburg 1966.
  • Studies on Kant's attitude to the right of resistance (philosophical dissertation). University thesis, Karlsruhe 1972.
  • The "weighing model" of the BVerwG (BVerwGE 34, 301 [1969]) - history and legends. Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt 2013, pp. 1280–1292.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement on the award of the "Medal of Honor for Services to Law and Legal Development" to Jörg Berkemann in the archive of the ZEIT Foundation
  2. ^ Announcement on the presentation of the Obermayer German Jewish History Award to Jörg Berkemann on the Obermayer Foundation homepage
  3. ^ Report on the award of the honorary doctorate to Jörg Berkemann in the press release 2018/106 of the University of Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Berkemann, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg