Joachim Lindner (lawyer)

Joachim Lindner (born April 30, 1946 in Meißen ) is a German lawyer and judge .

Life

Lindner was born as the son of the war-disabled master watchmaker Kurt Lindner. He began his education at the elementary school in Meissen. After his family fled the GDR in 1955 , he attended elementary schools in Schupbach and Darmstadt . Then he went to the commercial vocational school and joined the ÖTV in 1962 at the beginning of his training as an administrative clerk . During his training, which he completed in 1967 as an administrative inspector, he attended evening grammar school , where he graduated from high school in 1969 .

After graduating from high school, Lindner began studying law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . During this time he received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation until his first state examination in 1974 . Then he went to Bremen. There he worked as a research assistant in the one- phase legal training before he was appointed judge at the Administrative Court in Bremen in 1981 and from there in 1988 to the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin .

After reunification, Lindner went to Thuringia . There he was appointed judge at the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court in 1994, presiding judge in 1998 and finally vice-president of the court in 2007. At the end of May 2010, Lindner was elected President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court by the Thuringian State Parliament in the second ballot , as the successor to Harald Graef . He left office in 2014 due to age and was replaced by Manfred Aschke .

Publications

• with Manfred Baldus , Joachim Linck , Holger Poppenhäger , Matthias Ruffert (eds.): The Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia. Handkommentar , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-7245-5 .
• Scientific legitimacy in legal training reform through accompanying research? , in: Kritische Justiz , Volume 14 (1981), pp. 77 ff.

Web links

• Claus Peter Müller: The returnee: Joachim Lindner , portrait of Lindner on faz.net from June 1, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claus Peter Müller: The Returner: Joachim Lindner , on faz.net June 1, 2010.
2. ^ List of authors , in: Kritische Justiz , Volume 14 (1981), p. 106.
3. ↑ Joachim Lindner is the new President of the Constitutional Court , Thüringer Allgemeine , May 28, 2010.
4. ↑ Thuringian State Parliament : [Media information 124/2014: Election of the President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court] , from May 22, 2014.