Klaus Kutzer

Klaus Kutzer (born June 30, 1936 in Breslau ) was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1982 to 2001 .

Kutzer joined the judicial service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1966 . After working as a public prosecutor , in the city administration of Lippstadt and as a judge at the local and regional court , Kutzer was seconded to the Federal Ministry of Justice in 1969.

In 1972 he was transfer to the judicial service of the country Lower Saxony as a judge at the district court Hannover appointed and simultaneously to the Attorney General seconded. In 1973, Kutzer was transferred to the Federal Prosecutor's Office and appointed senior public prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice.

In 1975, Kutzer again became a state official in Lower Saxony and, as the chief public prosecutor, head of the Göttingen public prosecutor's office .

In 1982, Kutzer was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice. The Presidium assigned him to the 3rd Criminal Senate, to which he was to belong for the entire time he was a member of the Federal Court of Justice, from 1995 as chairman. Kutzer was able to build on his experience at the Federal Prosecutor's Office, where he was actively involved in the prosecution of the criminal offenses of the Baader-Meinhof Group , as the 3rd Criminal Senate is not only a revision senate in general criminal matters, but also as a special senate for all the jurisdiction of the Federal Court of Justice for state security matters.

Kutzer was also active in the Senate for tax advisory matters from 1988 to 1992, in the Senate for legal matters from 1990 to 1995 and from 1992 in the Grand Senate for criminal matters .

On June 30, 2001, Kutzer went into retirement.

Klaus Kutzer headed the working group “Patient Autonomy at the End of Life” set up by Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries in September 2003. The working group dealt with questions of the binding nature and scope of advance directives and presented its final report on June 10, 2004.