Klaus Hinkel

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Klaus Hinkel (* 1963 ) is a German judge and administrative officer .

Life

Hinkel comes from Hessen. In 1993 he switched to the Thuringian judicial service. He began his career at the Weimar Administrative Court . At the University of Frankfurt am Main took place in 1996 with the dissertation freedom for financial institutions in the banking Internal market: a study on the scope of Community law fundamental freedom in the light of the German banking supervisory law his promotion to Dr. jur. He also worked as a ministerial official in the Thuringian Ministry of Justice and the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior .

In 2017, Hinkel was appointed as the successor to Hartmut Schwan as President of the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court and took up his position on June 1, 2017.

Hinkel has been a member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court since October 4, 2019 ; the term of office lasts seven years, i.e. until October 3, 2026; his predecessor Hartmut Schwan left office prematurely on October 3, 2019, because he turned 68 on October 4 and thus reached the legal age limit. The SPD member Hinkel was nominated by four parliamentary groups on June 28, 2019 and elected on July 3 with the necessary two-thirds majority; on the same day he was appointed and sworn in in the state parliament. The SPD parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament even wanted to nominate Hinkel as President of the Constitutional Court last year - in spring 2018 - but then abandoned it - the parliamentary groups of the Left and the SPD ultimately supported the CDU candidate Stefan Kaufmann .

Hinkel has also been a lecturer in the field of public law at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Erfurt since 2020 .

Works (selection)

  • Freedom of establishment for credit institutions in the internal banking market: an investigation into the scope of the fundamental freedom under Community law, taking into account German banking supervision law , VDG, Weimar 1996, ISBN 978-3-929742-90-9 .
  • with Holger Hofmann and Jost Erlenkämper: Local taxes in Thuringia. Legal basis with explanations, model statutes. Legal collection with commentary. Loose-leaf publication with updates 2019. Carl Link, Cologne. ISBN 978-3-556-92090-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Hinkel is to head the Higher Administrative Court , Thüringer Allgemeine from May 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Hinkel: new President of the Higher Administrative Court , Die Welt from May 30, 2019.
  3. ^ Dataset of the dissertation on the website of the German National Library (last accessed on November 17, 2019).
  4. ↑ For the legal age limit, see Sections 6 (1) and 4 (1) of the Thuringian Constitutional Court Act (legal text can be found online here ). See also the plenary minutes of the 152nd meeting of July 3, 2019, p. 13249 ( online ) on reaching the age limit and the day on which the term of office ends .
  5. ↑ For the official nomination, see printed matter 6/7429 ( online ). For information on election, appointment and swearing-in, see the plenary minutes, p. 13249 ( online ). For SPD membership Hinkels compare: Martin Debes and Volkhard Paczulla: No agreement in the dispute over the constitutional court , in: Thüringer Allgemeine from March 15, 2018, p. 2.
  6. ↑ For the planned nomination see: Martin Debes: Constitutional court without a boss? Why the coalition with the Union has still not agreed on a new president , in: Thüringer Allgemeine, March 10, 2018, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Hinkel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and President of the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court
DATE OF BIRTH 1963