Manfred Aschke

Manfred Aschke, 2017

Manfred Aschke (born March 21, 1950 , partly also Aschke-Lepsius ) is a German judge and lawyer . From May 2014 to March 2018 he was President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court ; previously he was presiding judge at the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court in Weimar .

Life

Manfred Aschke is a son of Viola Aschke-Lepsius, a daughter of the theologian and Armenian activist Johannes Lepsius . He studied law, political science and sociology in Marburg and Geneva and was a research assistant at the University of Gießen , where he received his doctorate in 1985 with the thesis Transitional Regulations as a Constitutional Problem . Later he qualified as a professor in Giessen for the subjects of public law and legal sociology. Since 2003 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Giessen.

Aschke has been a judge since 1982, first in Hesse at the Gießen Administrative Court, then at the Hessian Administrative Court . In 1993 he moved to Thuringia, where he had been presiding judge at the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court since 1995. Manfred Aschke is a member of the German-Armenian Society and since 1998 a founding member of the Friends of the Lepsiushaus Potsdam . He was proposed as President of the Constitutional Court by the Thuringian SPD parliamentary group. Aschke received 69 of 83 votes cast in the election, succeeding Joachim Lindner in office . In March 2018, Aschke left office after reaching the statutory age limit. He was followed by Stefan Kaufmann .

Publications (selection)

• (with Hansjochen Dürr): Construction Law Thuringia , 2nd edition, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2005, ISBN 3-8329-0921-4 .
• Communication, coordination and social system: theoretical foundations for explaining the evolution of culture and society , Stuttgart: Lucius and Lucius 2002, ISBN 3-8282-0210-1 .
• Johann Bader, Michael Ronellenfitsch (Eds.), Manfred Aschke (editor): Administrative Procedure Act: Commentary , Munich: Beck 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-55539-8 .
• The defense of the universal equality of man: from Johannes Lepsius to Raphael Lemkin , in: Logos im Dialogos, commemorative publication for Hermann Goltz, LIT Verlag Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11027-5 , pages 191-204
• From the Armenian reforms in 1913 to the genocide of the Armenians in 1915: continuity and change in the tasks of the German-Armenian Society (lecture in the Lepsius House Potsdam 2014) PDF, download

literature

• Curriculum vitae in: 100 Years of the German-Armenian Society, The Authors, page 295, Düsseldorf: German-Armenian Society 2014, ISBN 978-3-9802408-0-2 .

Web links

Commons : Manfred Aschke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Manfred Aschke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Manfred Aschke elected President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court, report by the Thuringian General, May 22, 2014
• Election of the President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court: Prime Minister Lieberknecht congratulates Professor Dr. Manfred Aschke - Thanks to previous President Joachim Lindner, media information 124/2014 of the Thuringian State Chancellery from May 22, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see data of the dissertation in the DNB at http://d-nb.info/861112512
2. ^ Presiding judge at the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court appointed honorary professor Thuringian Higher Administrative Court, press release of May 9, 2003
3. ↑ see message from the TLZ SPD proposal: Aschke should lead the constitutional court
4. ↑ ThürVerfGH, decision of April 11, 2018, VerfGH 8/18 , p. 3 and ThürVerfGH, decision of April 11, 2018, VerfGH 3/17 , p. 4
5. ↑ Lukas C. Gundling: Constitutional crisis averted in Thuringia - a report in the journal for state constitutional law and state administrative law (ZLVR), pp. 105-108.