Johann Kuffer

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Johann Kuffer (born May 26, 1947 in Appertshofen ) is a German lawyer with a doctorate and former judge at the Federal Court of Justice .

Career

After completing his legal training, Kuffer entered the higher judicial service of the Free State of Bavaria in 1976 . After working for the public prosecutor and the local court, he was appointed judge at the Ingolstadt local court in 1979 . From 1986 to 1988 he was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court as a research assistant . At the end of the secondment he was appointed presiding judge at the Ingolstadt Regional Court. There he headed a civil chamber and later several criminal chambers, including the jury court. In 1994 he was elected judge at the Federal Court of Justice. He was initially assigned to the 4th Criminal Senate. Since March 1996 it belonged to the u. a. VII Civil Senate responsible for building and architectural law , of which he was Deputy Chairman from 2007 until he retired on June 30, 2012. In his many years of activity in all areas of law assigned to the Senate, he played a key role in shaping the case law of this Senate.

In addition to his work as a judge, he actively participated in the work of the collegial bodies of the Federal Court of Justice. He was a member of the Presidium and a deputy member of the Presidial Council.

Publications (selection)

  • The setting of norms as the exercise of official authority within the meaning of Article 19, Paragraph 4 of the Basic Law, Dissertation University of Regensburg 1976
  • Facilitation of the evidence in the construction process through the evidence of the first appearance, magazine for construction law (ZfBR) 1998, 277–279
  • Security agreements in the building contract, building law (BauR) 2003, 155–162
  • Right to refuse performance in the event of refused supplementary negotiations, ZfBR 2004, 110–117
  • Subsoil risk and systemic risk, New Journal for Building Law and Procurement Law (NZBau) 2006, 1–6
  • Does the privilege of VOB / B continue to exist? NZBau 2009, 73–78
  • Beck'scher VOB and public procurement law commentary, CH Beck, Munich, 2014 (co-author)

Individual evidence

  1. Press release of the Federal Court of Justice No. 101/2012 from June 29, 2012, available on the Internet at http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=pm&Datum=2012-6&nr=60750&pos = 2 & num = 24

Web links

  • Press release of the Federal Court of Justice with individual evidence