Karl-Hermann Kästner

Karl-Hermann Kästner (born April 26, 1946 in Orlishausen ) is a German law scholar and university professor .

Life

Kastner studied 1966-1971 jurisprudence at the Universities of Tübingen and Geneva . From 1972 to 1978 he worked as an assistant at the law faculty of the University of Tübingen. During this time he also passed his second state examination in 1975 , one year after his doctorate . From 1979 to 1991 Kästner worked as a judge at the administrative court in Sigmaringen . In 1990 he completed his habilitation in public law and church law in Tübingen. He then took on professorships in Saarbrücken , Konstanz and Mannheim , and turned down an offer at the University of Göttingen . In 1991 he was appointed full professor at the University of Mannheim , where he held the chair for public law until 1994. During this time, Kästner also worked as a part-time judge at the Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court for a year . In 1994 he accepted an appointment as professor for public law and canon law at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , before returning to the University of Tübingen as professor for the same subjects in 1997. In 2014 he retired .

From 2001 to 2004 he was also a part-time judge at the Sigmaringen Administrative Court .

Research priorities

Kästner mainly deals with public law with an emphasis on administrative law and administrative procedural law . His focus is on religious constitutional law and canon law .

Kästner has written an extensive commentary on Article 4 of the Basic Law and is currently working on an extensive new commentary on Article 140 of the Basic Law (Protection of Sundays and Holidays) in the Bonn Commentary on the Basic Law .

Other activities

Kästner is a foreign full member of the Academy of Law of the Ukraine , a member of the advisory board of the Canon Law Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany and co-editor of the magazine for evangelical church law . In 2009 he was the legal representative of the Evangelical Church in Germany in the case of the two large churches before the Federal Constitutional Court against Berlin's practice of allowing shops to open on all four Sundays in Advent . Kästner argued that there was no self-determined decision to use shopping Sundays , since the decision could not be made by the sales staff, but also by relatives. The Federal Constitutional Court followed this line of argument and declared the Berlin regulation to be unconstitutional. This decision is known as the fundamental judgment on Sunday protection.

Private

Kästner is widowed, has three grown children and lives in Bingen near Sigmaringen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reactions to the judgment on the Sunday opening In: Schwäbische Zeitung, December 1, 2009
2. ↑ Michael Hescheler: The man who protects Sunday . In: Schwäbische Zeitung, December 5, 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl-Hermann Kästner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kästner on the website of the University of Tübingen
• List of publications