Klaus Finkelnburg

Klaus Finkelnburg (born May 7, 1935 in Bonn ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and the first President of the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin .

Life

Finkelnburg studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin . In 1959 he passed the first state examination in law and received his doctorate four years later.

In 1966 he founded a law firm and from 1971 he was an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin . He accompanied the Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht (NVwZ) as founding editor in 1981. From 1985 to 1992 he was a member of the Berlin state parliament. In the phase of the merging of Berlin, he and Renate Künast and Ehrhart Körting played a key role in drawing up the new state laws for Berlin, which were often called the "nudist group" during this time. From 1992 to 2000 he was President of the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin. In 2000 he joined the New York law firm White & Case .

Volunteering

Finkelnburg was the first chairman of the Association for the History of Berlin from 1999 to 2005 .

Honors

• Great Cross of Merit (2000)
• Fidicin Medal of the Association for the History of Berlin (2005)
• Appointment as city ​​elder of Berlin (2008)

Publications

• Current legal problems of pollution control law , Cologne 1980.
• New Journal for Administrative Law (NVwZ) , 1981. (Founding Editor)
• Public building law , Munich 1981.
• The minority government in German constitutional law , Berlin 1982.
• 50 years of administrative jurisdiction in Berlin. In: The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin , 53rd episode, Berlin 2004.
• Provisional legal protection in administrative litigation , Munich 2008.
• The reunification of Berlin. In: Susanne Kähler , Wolfgang Krogel , Manfred Uhlitz (eds.): 150 years of the metropolis Berlin (= commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the Association for the History of Berlin eV), founded in 1865 , 63/64. Episode, Berlin 2015.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 139 f.

Web links

• Professor Klaus Finkelnburg: The man who wrote Berlin legal history , Die Welt online from January 20, 2003
• CV on beck-shop.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Press release of the City of Berlin from December 3, 2008
2. ^ Professor Klaus Finkelnburg: The man who wrote Berlin legal history , Die Welt online from January 20, 2003
3. ↑ List of Fidicin Medal Winners