Jochen Abraham Frowein
Jochen Abraham Frowein (born June 8, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German legal scholar .
Life
Frowein studied law from 1953 to 1956 at the Universities of Kiel , Berlin and Bonn . He passed his first state examination in 1956 in Cologne. He then completed his legal clerkship from 1957 to 1961, which was interrupted in 1957/1958 by studying at the University of Michigan Law School, where he obtained a Master of Comparative Law degree. During his legal clerkship, he received his doctorate in Bonn in 1960 . In 1962 he passed the second state examination in Düsseldorf. After working as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg or as a research assistant at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Bonn, he received his habilitation in 1967 in Bonn .
After professorships for constitutional and international law at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1967 to 1969 and at the University of Bielefeld from 1969 to 1981 he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg from 1981 to 2002 and at the same time professor at the University of Heidelberg . From 1999 to 2002 he was also Vice President of the Max Planck Society .
From 1973 to 1993 he was also a member of the European Commission for Human Rights , an organ of the Council of Europe which was supposed to ensure the enforcement of the ECHR .
In 2000, Frowein, together with Martti Ahtisaari (Finland) and Marcelino Oreja Aguirre (Spain), was appointed to the Council of Wise Men by 14 member states of the European Union , which were supposed to investigate a ruling coalition of the right-wing populist FPÖ with the conservative ÖVP in Austria . Sanctions that had previously been imposed on the country by the rest of the EU were lifted on the basis of the recommendations of the “3 wise men” .
Frowein had represented the Federal Republic of Germany several times in oral hearings before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights , including in the Jahn u. a. ./. Federal Republic of Germany (complaint by the new settlers' heirs) , von Maltzan u. a. ./. Federal Republic of Germany (complaint by those eligible for the land reform ) and Gäfgen ./. Federal Republic of Germany (complaint about threats of torture by authorities). In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .
He is co-editor of the Public Law Archives .
Jochen A. Frowein was married to Lore Frowein, b. Flume (born November 11, 1935 - April 7, 2013), the daughter of Werner Flume . He has three grown children.
Honors
- 1984: Awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Seville
- 1997: Award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Leuven
- 1998: Award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Szeged
- 1999: Award of an honorary doctorate by Bielefeld University
- 2000: Awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Paris II
Web links
- Literature by and about Jochen Abraham Frowein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website about Frowein at the MPI for International Law
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b CV at the Max Planck Institute for Public Law , accessed on January 30, 2016.
- ↑ Max Planck Institute - Prof. Dr. Drs. Hc Jochen Abr. Frowein
- ^ Federal Association of German Farmers eV (VDL)
- ↑ BMJ press releases / land reform judgment of the ECHR: Appeal lodged ( Memento from February 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Frowein, Jochen Abraham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frowein, Jochen Abr .; Frowein, YES; Frowein, Jochen A .; Frowein, Jochen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |