Ludwig Salgo

Ludwig Salgo (originally: Lajos Salgo; born November 24, 1946 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-German family lawyer .

Life

Salgo comes from a large Hungarian landowning family with a Jewish background . His mother fled with him and his sister from Hungary in 1956 after the popular uprising was put down . He attended the Birklehof reform school in Hinterzarten (Black Forest) for two years . After graduating from high school in 1968, he studied law and social sciences at the Universities of Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main . From 1974 to 1977 he was a trainee lawyer and graduated in 1977 with the second state examination. From 1977 to 1982 he worked as a lawyer in a law firm he co-founded in Frankfurt. From 1982 to 1988 he was a research assistant for Spiros Simitis at the University of Frankfurt. His doctoral thesis on “ Foster Childhood and State Intervention ” from 1987 is still the foundation for child-oriented legal policy in foster childcare. From 1988 he was a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen. From 1992 he taught as a professor for family and youth law at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences . He retired at the beginning of 2012. He has been teaching as a senior professor at the Faculty of Education at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main since 2015 and is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law there.

Since his time as a lawyer, he has advocated the rights of children in family disputes. With his writings ( "The Child's Lawyer" ) he gave the impetus for the introduction of the legal figure of an independent representation of interests for children in family court proceedings. He worked as an expert for the Federal Constitutional Court , the Bundestag and ministries when it came to the endangerment of the child's welfare or the legal and psychosocial situation of home and foster children.

For a long time he was Vice President of the German Child Protection Association (DKSB) and has been Deputy Chairman of the DKSB Frankfurt since 1998.

Honors

• 1987: Walter Kolb Memorial Prize for his dissertation
• 2012: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Committed fighter for the well-being of children: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Salgo is leaving the FH FFM
• Family lawyer Ludwig Salgo “Expectations of children are too high” , in: Frankfurter Rundschau, March 30, 2012
• Information about Salgo on the website of the University of Frankfurt