Johann Friedrich Henschel
Johann Friedrich Henschel (born June 10, 1931 in Schwarzenau / Eder ; † March 19, 2007 in Hanover ) was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and Chairman of the First Senate and Vice-President of the court.
Life
After completing his legal training and obtaining his doctorate on the subject of criminal defense in the inquisition trial of the 18th century and in the indictment trial of the 19th century , Henschel first entered the justice service in Lower Saxony and was appointed regional judge at the Hanover regional court in 1965 . Only three years later, in 1968, Henschel left the judicial service at his own request and settled down as a lawyer and later also as a notary . In 1983 he was admitted to the bar at the Federal Court of Justice , and in July of the same year Henschel was appointed judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. He was a member of the First Senate from July 19, 1983 to October 13, 1995. From September 29, 1994 he took on the duties of Chairman of the First Senate and Vice-President of the Court. The predecessor of his post at the Federal Constitutional Court was Hans Joachim Faller ; his successor Dieter Hömig .
During his tenure, he influenced the court's case law on freedom of belief and belief , school law and property issues . Henschel became particularly well known for the so-called crucifix judgment , which the First Senate announced under his chairmanship in 1995. He also played a key role in judgments on property-related property issues.
After leaving the Federal Constitutional Court, Henschel resumed his work as a lawyer at the Federal Court of Justice.
In 1987 he became an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen .
On the occasion of his resignation as judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, his employees honored him with the detective novel Leichen in the basement of the Federal Constitutional Court (published 1996 by Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden). The novel was published under the pseudonym Hendrik Hiwi , which has not yet been released. On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Johann Friedrich Henschel, Hiwi had a volume of poetry follow: Constitutional poetry (Nomos-Verlag 2001).
Johann Friedrich Henschel was involved in the support group of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Others
Johann Friedrich Henschel was an uncle on the paternal side of Gerhard Henschel . In his epistolary novel “Die Liebenden” and the autobiographical Martin Schlosser novels , Johann Friedrich Henschel appears as uncle Rudolf “Rudi” Schlosser.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Friedrich Henschel in the catalog of the German National Library
- BVerfG Vice President Henschel specifies the "Crucifix judgment"
- Press release No. 32/2007 of the Federal Constitutional Court of March 21, 2007 on the occasion of Henschel's death
- Press release No. 60/2001 of the Federal Constitutional Court of June 7, 2001 on Henschel's 70th birthday ( memento of September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Henschel, Johann Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarzenau (Bad Berleburg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 2007 |
| Place of death | Hanover |