Jörg Winter (Canon Lawyer)

Jörg Winter (born September 21, 1944 in Großrudestedt ) is a German state church lawyer and Protestant canon lawyer .

Life

He studied law at the Universities of Bochum and Freiburg , where he in 1977 Alexander Hollerbach on the science of the state church law in the Third Reich received his doctorate .

From 1986 to 1990 Winter was director of the legal department of the Diakonisches Werk der EKD in Stuttgart. From 1990 until his retirement in November 2007 he was senior church councilor and head of the legal department of the Evangelical Church in Baden ; his successor was senior church councilor Susanne Jaschinski . Winter was also chairman of the legal committee of the Union of Evangelical Churches .

Winter is honorary professor for state church and canon law at the University of Heidelberg and a lecturer at the University of Freiburg.

Fonts (selection)

• The science of state church law in the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 1979.
• The Barmen Theological Declaration. A contribution about its importance for the constitution, law, order and administration of the Evangelical Church in Baden after 1945. Heidelberg 1986.
• State Church Law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Introduction to the state church law of the Federal Republic of Germany with special consideration of the constitutional position of diakonia. Stuttgart 1990.
• State Church Law of the Federal Republic of Germany. An introduction with canon law digressions. 2nd Edition. Cologne 2008.
• The basic order of the Evangelical Church in Baden. Commentary for practice and science. Cologne 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Winter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jörg Winter on the website of the University of Freiburg