Kurt Schelter

Kurt Schelter (born September 26, 1946 in Schwarzenhammer ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1999 to 2002 he was Justice Minister of the State of Brandenburg .

Life

Schelter completed his Abitur in 1966 at the modern-language-natural science high school in Selb in Bavaria and then studied law and political sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg until 1970 . He then passed his first state examination in law and was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Canon Law at his place of study until 1974 , during which time he was also a trainee lawyer . In 1974 he passed his second state examination in law and in 1975 he received his doctorate .

politics

Schelter was employed from 1974 to 1987 as a consultant for personnel matters and budget in the Bavarian State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs . He was also a cabinet and state parliament clerk and deputy head of the “Management Aids and Policy Issues” department. He was also head of the ministerial office in the Bavarian State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs. Then he was chief of protocol of the Bavarian State Government until 1989 as a department head in the Bavarian State Chancellery and then until 1993 head of the Bavarian State Ministry for Federal and European Affairs . From 1993 to 1998 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and, from 1994, Honorary Professor at the University of Munich . From 1998 to 1999 he worked as a lawyer until he was appointed Minister of Justice and European Affairs of the State of Brandenburg on October 13, 1999 . After it was revealed in 2002 that Schelter had run into financial difficulties as a result of real estate purchases in the 1990s, he resigned from his office shortly afterwards, on August 2, 2002. His successor was Barbara Richstein . Schelter is working as a lawyer again.

At the trial in March 2012, offered him Potsdam district court to to reduce to a confession the possible sentence to nine to 18 months and the prison to probation suspend. On May 14, 2012, he was sentenced to 18 months suspended prison sentence for fraud , tax evasion and false affidavit .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Kurt Schelter. In: State government. A chronicle. on political-bildung-brandenburg.de
• Kurt Schelter in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrea Beyerlein: A question of style. In: Berliner Zeitung of July 24, 2002.
2. ↑ Gerold Büchner: The premiere . In: BERLINER ZEITUNG . March 20, 2012.
3. ↑ Suspended sentence for ex-Minister Schelter. on rbb-online.de, May 14, 2012