Josef Molkenbur

Josef Molkenbur (born February 23, 1956 in Emsdetten ) is a German lawyer and political official . Since June 19, 2020 he has been State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Equality of the State of Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

Molkenbur completed a double degree in law and education , he received his doctorate in Mainz in 1988 on the subject of "Assessment of the severity of offenses by juvenile judges taking into account the urban-rural gradient". In 1983 he became a lawyer and in 1984 a probationary judge in the North Rhine-Westphalian labor courts. The appointment as judge for life followed two years later. From 1994 to 2018 he was presiding judge at the regional labor court of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale) . In the meantime he held the office of the episcopal judiciary in Münster in 1995. From the summer semester of 2009 he worked as a lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ; in 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university . In 2018 he resigned his judge's office and retired .

In June 2020 Molkenbur was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Equality of the State of Saxony-Anhalt by Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff at the suggestion of Minister Anne-Marie Keding . He returned from retirement and succeeded Hubert Böning in the ministry , who was held responsible for a judicial failure in the attempted escape of the Halle assassin Stephan Balliet from the Roter Ochse prison in Halle.

Molkenbur is chairman of the Friends of the Law Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He is also volunteer as chairman of the arbitration tribunal of the German Red Cross Saxony-Anhalt and deputy chairman of the state working group of Christian democratic lawyers.

Fonts (selection)

Severity assessment of offenses by juvenile judges taking into account the urban-rural gradient. (= Dissertation ), Mainz 1988.
with Horst-Dieter Krasshöfer : company agreement. Rieder, Münster 1999 (4th edition 2016), ISBN 978-3-945260-38-8 .
The change notice. Rieder, Münster 2007 (2nd edition 2012), ISBN 978-3-939018-29-2 .

Sources and further reading

Web links

Literature by Josef Molkenbur in the catalog of the German National Library
Josef Molkenbur on the website of the Ministry of Justice and Equality of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
Josef Molkenbur on the website of the CH Beck publishing house

Individual evidence

^ Corinna Bertz: Honorary doctorate for judge Josef Molkenbur. In: Campus Halensis. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, May 19, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Molkenbur new State Secretary for Justice. t-online.de , June 19, 2020, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
^ After attempted escape by Halle assassin: Aus for Justice State Secretary. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, June 18, 2020, accessed on July 5, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Molkenbur, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and political official
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Emsdetten

[1] Corinna Bertz: Honorary doctorate for judge Josef Molkenbur. In: Campus Halensis. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, May 19, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2020 .

[Molkenbur_neuer_Justiz-Staatssekretär-2] Molkenbur new State Secretary for Justice. t-online.de , June 19, 2020, accessed on July 5, 2020 .

[3] After attempted escape by Halle assassin: Aus for Justice State Secretary. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, June 18, 2020, accessed on July 5, 2020 .