Karl-Heinz Mattern

Karl-Heinz Mattern (born December 11, 1918 in Danzig ; † July 9, 1996 in Bonn ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Life

Born the son of a school councilor, Mattern went to high school in Gdańsk. He took part in the Second World War as a reserve officer and battery chief , was wounded several times and was able to flee from Soviet captivity . He studied law in Tübingen . During his studies in 1948 he became a member of the Old Strasbourg fraternity Germania . In 1948 he took his first legal exam and became an assistant for public law and international law at the University of Tübingen. In 1949 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . In 1949/50 he was a member of the Neunerrat, which in 1950 organized the re-establishment of the German fraternity . He became a member of the University Political Committee (HpA) of the German Burschenschaft. In 1951 his second exam followed.

In the same year he worked in the administration of the German Bundestag in Bonn , where he was also secretary of several Bundestag committees (1955 member of the Committee on Consequences of Occupation and member of the Foreign and All-German Committee). He was promoted to the government council and was part of the staff in the European Parliament . At the European Institute of Saarbrücken University , he gave lectures on questions of European law , parliamentary law and nuclear law . In 1955 he became a board member and chairman of the foundation council in the East German Cultural Council. In 1970 he became president of the Federal Academy for Public Administration in Bonn. In 1973 he became president of the East Academy and the North German Cultural Association. In 1979 he was an honorary professor for administrative science at the University of Munich . From 1981 to 1993 he was President of the Council of Gdańsk .

Publications (selection)

• The significance of the government abroad under international law. Dissertation at the University of Tübingen, 1949.
• The government-in-exile: a historical consideration of international practice since the beginning of the First World War and its evaluation under international law. Tübingen 1953.
• Co-author of the Atomic Energy Act: Act on the peaceful use of nuclear energy and the protection against its dangers of December 23, 1959: with the related ordinances, the relevant provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community and the Convention on Liability to Third Parties in the Area of nuclear energy. [Comment]. Berlin, Frankfurt am Main 1961.
• Basic lines of parliament. Berlin 1969.
• Administrative action in the direction of goal and result. Regensburg 1984.
• Public Administration Requirements: A Guide to Administrative Practice. Regensburg 1991.

Honors

• 1965: Heinrich von Kleist Prize ( Association of Expellees )
• 1979: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1982: Knight of the French Legion of Honor
• 1983: Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1984: Large Federal Cross of Merit

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 51-52.