Konrad Redeker

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Konrad Redeker (born June 21, 1923 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † June 7, 2013 in Bonn ) was a German legal scholar and lawyer .

Career

Konrad Redeker originally wanted to be a musician. Before he could begin appropriate training, he was drafted into military service and took part in the Second World War as an infantry officer. Due to a war wound in both legs, it was impossible for him to work as a musician. Instead , he met Hans Ulrich Scupin in a prisoner-of-war camp in Egypt , who introduced him to law there. After his release from captivity, Redeker studied four semesters at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1951 . He completed his legal clerkship in the law firm of criminal defense attorney Hans Dahs . After the second state examination , Redeker was admitted to the Bonn bar in 1954 . In the same year he qualified as a specialist lawyer for administrative law before this qualification was abolished again. In 1958 he entered into a partnership with attorney Dahs and subsequently worked as a lawyer in what is now Redeker Sellner Dahs' office. Among other things, he represented General Günter Kießling in the context of the Kießling affair .

In 1978 he became an honorary professor at the University of Bonn .

Association activity

Redeker was a member of the Administrative Law Committee of the German Bar Association (DAV) from 1956 to 1982 and chaired the committee from 1970. Redeker was a member of the board of directors of the lawyers' association from 1971 to 1981 and from 1975 was the deputy chairman of the DAV.

Konrad Redeker was elected to the permanent deputation of the German Juristentag in 1964 and was a member of the deputation until 1976. From 1966 to 1970 he was the chairman of the deputation and was president of the Juristentage in Nuremberg in 1968 and in Mainz in 1970.

He particularly campaigned for the reintroduction of qualification as specialist lawyers . The reintroduction of specialist lawyers in 1986 can be traced back to his commitment to this question, among other things.

Scientific work

Redeker published numerous reviews of judgments, specialist articles in specialist journals and commemorative publications , and reviews of specialist books. Particularly noteworthy, however, is the legal commentary on the administrative court order , which he wrote and edited together with Hans-Joachim von Oertzen , which is considered the standard commentary in the field. In addition to dealing with administrative law, Redeker also dealt with the moral responsibility of the legal profession, especially during the time of National Socialism . Theodor Maunz's resignation from the office of Bavarian Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs went back to a publication by Redeker in the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift , in which Redeker presented Maunz's statements during National Socialism. This publication was one of the first critical publications on the Nazi entanglement of German lawyers. The impetus were two lawsuits brought by the state of Schleswig-Holstein against Franz Schlegelberger and Ernst Lautz in which Redeker represented the state. During the German Juristentag in 1966, with the section on individual guilt and joint responsibility of the state and society, he also critically dealt with how lawyers came to terms with the past.

Redeker was editor of the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift from 1973 to 2003 .

Honors

literature

  • Felix Busse: Konrad Redeker on his 70th birthday. NJW 1993, p. 1632.
  • Hans-Jürgen Rabe , Konrad Redeker on the 80th birthday. NJW 2003, p. 1783.
  • Thomas Horstmann, Heike Litzinger: At the limits of the law. Talks with lawyers about the prosecution of Nazi crimes. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2006, pp. 98–121.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c The lawyer of the killed general. In: The time . 05/1984, January 27, 1984.
  2. ^ Felix Busse: Konrad Redeker on his 70th birthday. NJW 1993, p. 1632.
  3. NJW 1964, p. 1097
  4. Flags in the wind - a portrait of indestructible legal careers. ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Jura-Magazin Hamburg.