Knut Ipsen

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Knut Ipsen (born June 9, 1935 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer and expert in the field of international humanitarian law . From 1974 to 2000 he was a professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum and wrote several standard works in the field of public law . From 1994 to 2003 he was President of the German Red Cross (DRK).

Life

Knut Ipsen studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1959 to 1962 . Before his legal clerkship in Schleswig-Holstein from 1964 to 1967, he worked for a year as a research assistant at the Institute for International Law in Kiel. In 1967 he completed his studies with the second state examination in law and a doctorate on the subject of “Legal bases and institutionalization of Atlantic-Western European defense”. From 1967 to 1974 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for International Law in Kiel. After his habilitation in 1972 on the subject of "Biological and chemical warfare agents in international law", he took over a professorship at Kiel University.

In the 1974 summer semester, he was appointed professor of public law at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1979 to 1989 he was rector of the university. In 1988 he became the founding director of the Institute for Peacekeeping Law and International Humanitarian Law at Bochum University. From 1991 to 1993 he was the founding rector of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) . In July 2000 he retired .

From 1975 to 1977 he was a member of the German government delegation at the diplomatic conference in Geneva , which resulted in the first two additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions . From 1986 to 1994 he was the Federal Convention Commissioner of the German Red Cross and then from 1994 to 2003 President of the DRK. In addition, he has been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague since 1991 and a founding member of the "Association for the Promotion of German & International Science Law" founded in 1994.

Knut Ipsen has been married since 1963 and has two children. He is the brother of the constitutional lawyer Jörn Ipsen . He received honorary doctorates from several universities for his work, among other awards .

Works (selection)

  • Legal basis and institutionalization of the Atlantic-West European defense (= publications of the Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel . 57). Hansischer Gildenverlag Heitmann, Hamburg 1967.
  • with Horst Fischer (Ed.): Chances of Peace. Analyzes, theses, discussions (= military, armaments, security . Vol. 35). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1986, ISBN 3-7890-1191-6 .
  • with Peter J. Tettinger : Contaminated sites and municipal land-use planning. A case study on official liability law (= Bochum contributions to mining and energy law . Vol. 2). Boorberg, Stuttgart a. a. 1988, ISBN 3-415-01361-8 .
  • with Ulrich R. Haltern : Reform of the world trading system ?. Perspectives on the GATT and the Uruguay Round (= Bochum publications on development research and development policy . Vol. 28). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-631-44311-0 .
  • (Ed.): Energy policy of the European Communities and its framework under Community law. Documentation of a conference of the Institute for Mining and Energy Law on June 24, 1991 in Bochum (= Bochum Contributions to Mining and Energy Law . Vol. 16). Booberg, Stuttgart a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-415-01694-3 .
  • with Walter Poeggel (ed.): The relationship of the united Germany to the Eastern European neighbors. On the historical, international law and political science aspects of the new situation (= Bochum writings on peacekeeping and humanitarian international law . Vol. 21). Scientific conference on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, UVB, Bochum 1993, ISBN 3-8196-0177-5 .
  • Social services and EC law. Effects of European Community Law on Member State Promotion of Social Services in the Field of Free Welfare (= Contributions to Social Policy and Social Law . Vol. 24). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-503-04088-9 .
  • with 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 .
  • with Rolf D. Herzberg , Klaus Schreiber : Studying efficiently. Law (= Edition MLP ). Gabler, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-409-12251-6 .
  • International law. A study book . 6th completely revised edition, justified by Eberhard Menzel , CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-57294-4 .

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SURNAME Ipsen, Knut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the German Red Cross
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg