Karl Huber (lawyer, 1948)

Karl Huber (* 1948 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) is a German lawyer. From 2005 to 2015 he was President of both the Munich Higher Regional Court and the Bavarian Constitutional Court .

Life

Huber joined in 1966 as an official of the central service at the then municipal police of the City of Munich , then took a study of law and was under the state exam in 1981 in the Bavarian judicial service act. He obtained his doctorate in 1982 on the subject of § 34 StGB as a justification for sovereign action at the University of Munich . From 1995 to 2001 he held the office of Vice President of the Munich Higher Regional Court and from 2001 to 2005 that of the Attorney General in Munich. From March 2, 2005 he was President of the Munich Higher Regional Court and also President of the Bavarian Constitutional Court.

On July 6, 2007, Huber was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

In May 2014, the Constitutional Court under Huber's chairmanship ruled that Horst Seehofer's Bavarian state government had to provide the state parliament opposition with information on how much budget the five cabinet members Ludwig Spaenle , Helmut Brunner , Beate Merk , Franz Josef Pschierer , Bernd Sibler and Gerhard Eck gave theirs Had paid family members in connection with the relatives affair . Even the conservative newspaper Die Welt saw this as a slap in the face for the state government.

Karl Huber retired at the end of February 2015. Peter Küspert was appointed successor as President of the Constitutional Court and the Higher Regional Court.

Publications

Karl Huber, The tension between popular and parliamentary legislation in Bavaria , Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-1603-6
Dirk Heckmann / Karl Huber / Ulrich Numberger (eds.), Landesrecht Bayern (text collection), 9th edition (as of August 1, 2013), Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden, ISBN 978-3-8487-0567-2

Web links

Press release from the Ministry of Justice on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of service (archive, 2008)
Literature by and about Karl Huber in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ - ( Memento from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Bavarian Order of Merit: Karl Huber. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
↑ Peter Issig: The week in the state parliament: Justice gives Seehofer tutoring . May 25, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed March 15, 2019]).
^ WORLD: Peter Küspert elected President of the Constitutional Court . December 11, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed March 15, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Huber, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian judge
DATE OF BIRTH	1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Willows in the Upper Palatinate

[1] - ( Memento from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Bavarian Order of Merit: Karl Huber. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .

[3] Peter Issig: The week in the state parliament: Justice gives Seehofer tutoring . May 25, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed March 15, 2019]).

[4] WORLD: Peter Küspert elected President of the Constitutional Court . December 11, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed March 15, 2019]).