Jürgen Kühling

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Jürgen Kühling (born April 27, 1934 in Osnabrück ; † December 16, 2019 ) was a German lawyer . From 1989 to 2001 he was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life

Kühling studied law at the Universities of Freiburg , Göttingen , Munich and Rome . After studying and doing his doctorate , Kühling initially worked in the legal department of Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg from 1965 to 1966 before starting a judge's career and becoming a judge at the administrative court in Hanover . After a period of secondment as a research assistant to the Federal Administrative Court , he was appointed to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice in 1972 . In 1979, Kühling was appointed judge at the Federal Administrative Court.

On July 12, 1989, at the suggestion of the SPD , Kühling was elected judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, where he mainly dealt with the constitutional aspects of labor law. Kühling was a member of the first Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court and left office on January 23, 2001 at his own request, shortly before the end of the twelve-year term of office. As a rapporteur, he wrote, among other things, the judgment on the suspension of employment relationships in the public service based on the unification agreement on the ban on night work for women, on discrimination against women in recruitment, on short-time work benefits in the case of regional strikes and on company pension rights in the public service .

Jürgen Kühling, who was a member of the SPD, worked as a lawyer in Hamburg. He was married and had two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jürgen Kühling, Winfried Rasbach, Claudia Busch: Energy law . 4th edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8452-8002-8 .

literature

interview

  • Rolf Lamprecht, Paul Lersch, Jürgen Kühling: “A dangerous game” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1992 ( online - Nov. 16, 1992 ).

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Kühling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c "Personal data". In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift , section NJW-aktuell No. 20/2019 of May 9, 2019, ISSN  0341-1915 , p. 46.
  2. ^ Federal Constitutional Court - Press - The former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court Dr. Jürgen Kühling passed away. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
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  7. ^ Scramble for judges' posts in Karlsruhe. In: Welt Online. 1999, accessed April 26, 2019 .