Klaus Dau

Klaus Dau (* 1934 ) is a German lawyer and ministerial official. He is considered the nestor of German military law .

Life

Dau studied law and political science and was a trainee lawyer in Bonn . With a doctorate in constitutional law Hans Peters he was in 1963 at the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne to Dr. iur. PhD. In 1964 he joined the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg). Initially he was a consultant in the Administration and Legal Department (VR). 1966–1968 he was legal advisor and defense disciplinary attorney at the Territorial Defense Command of the Bundeswehr . Later he was again a consultant and in 1989/90 Head of Division for State and Constitutional Law in the VR Department. Appointed ministerial director in 1993, he took over the sub-department VR II. In 1995 he became ministerial director of the administration and law department and in 1996 of the legal department of the Federal Ministry of Defense . In 1999 he retired.

Responsible for overseeing the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD), Dau submitted a draft MAD law in April 1984 , on which the law that came into force in 1990 was based. Before the Höcherl Commission, which examined the structure and functioning of the MAD, Dau also spoke out in favor of a MAD law as the basis for the use of intelligence resources .

Dau was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military and Martial Law and, together with Armin A. Steinkamm, is the editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Wehrrecht . He is also responsible for the legal comments on the Defense Disciplinary Code (6th edition 2013) and the Defense Complaints Code (6th edition 2013).

Fonts

with Gotthard Wöhrmann (ed.): The foreign deployment of German armed forces. A documentation of the AWACS, Somalia and Adria proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court (= motifs, texts, materials . Vol. 72). Müller, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8114-3796-8 .
Military disciplinary code. Comment (= Vahlen's comments ). 6th, revised edition, Vahlen, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8006-4509-1 .
Military Complaint Regulations. Comment (= Vahlen's comments ). 6th edition of the work founded by Heinrich Frahm and jointly responsible for up to the 4th edition by Hans Viktor Böttcher , Vahlen, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8006-4510-7 .

literature

Knut Ipsen , Christian Raap , Torsten Stein , Armin A. Steinkamm (eds.): Defense law and peacekeeping: Festschrift for Klaus Dau on his 65th birthday . Luchterhand, Neuwied u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-472-03023-2 .
Alexander Poretschkin : Klaus Dau on his 70th birthday . Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (2004), p. 2579.

Web links

Literature by and about Klaus Dau in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Klaus Dau in the German Digital Library
Search for "Klaus Dau" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

↑ Dissertation: The principle of opportunity in disciplinary law .
↑ “Always on the enemy!” - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 186 .
↑ “Always on the enemy!” - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 171 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dau, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH	1934

[1] Dissertation: The principle of opportunity in disciplinary law .

[2] “Always on the enemy!” - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 186 .

[3] “Always on the enemy!” - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 171 .