Manfred Baldus (legal scholar, 1963)

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Manfred Baldus as constitutional judge in 2017

Manfred Baldus (born May 25, 1963 in Marienhausen ; † before or on December 30, 2021 ) was a German legal scholar , university professor and constitutional judge .

Life

Baldus studied law , political science and philosophy at the universities of Trier , Bonn , Paris and at the Free University of Berlin from 1983 to 1988 . After his first state legal examination in 1988, he did community service at the Eppendorf University Hospital in Hamburg in 1990 . From 1991 to 1993 he took part in the Graduate College for Legal History at the University of Frankfurt as a doctoral scholarship from the Volkswagenwerk Foundationpart. From 1993 to 1995 he did his legal preparatory service, which he completed with the assessor exam. During the clerkship Baldus in 1994 at the University of Frankfurt on the unity of the legal system - meaning a legal formula in theory of law, civil law and state law of the 19th and 20th centuries doctorate .

From 1996 to 1998, Baldus was a post-doctoral fellow from the German Research Foundation . In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt on the subject of transnational police law - constitutional foundations and simple legal structuring of police powers to intervene in cross-border issues for public law including European law , legal theory and recent legal history . In 1998 and 1999 he was a research assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Rostock and from 2000 to 2003 senior research assistant at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . During this time he held professorial positions at the universities of Frankfurt and Kiel . He was also visiting professor at the University of Paris X in 1999 .

In 2003, Baldus was appointed university professor at the newly established political science faculty at the University of Erfurt . There he held the chair for public law and modern legal history. In 2008 he turned down a call to the German Police University . From 2015 to 2016 he was also head of the expert commission for the evaluation of the Thuringian police structural reform, taking into account the structure and working methods of the State Criminal Police Office. Until 2021 he was chairman of the investigation committee according to the code of ethics of the University of Erfurt.

Baldus was a member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court from 2008 . His term of office was extended for a further five years in 2012 and a further seven years in March 2018. Most recently, the election took place at the suggestion of the parliamentary groups of the CDU , SPD , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and Die Linke . He received 77 out of 85 votes in the Thuringian state parliament in a politically difficult situation.

Baldus died during his tenure in late December 2021 at the age of 58. Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow praised him as a “strong advocate for the rule of law”; Interior Minister Georg Maier recognized him as a “voice of the rule of law and democracy”.

research

Baldus dealt with German constitutional law , legal theory , Thuringian state law and police law . A special focus was on human dignity and Article 1 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany .

Memberships and honors

Baldus was a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers and of the Internal Security Working Group . From 2021 he was a member of the Scientific Freedom Network .

In 2001 he was awarded the 1st prize of the Police Leadership Academy in 1999 for excellent essays in the field of internal security for his habilitation thesis.

In 2003 he was awarded the Prize for Good Teaching in the Studium Fundamentale of the year 2003 from the Universitätsgesellschaft Erfurt e. V. and the student council of the University of Erfurt . He received further awards for good teaching, for example from the student body of the political science faculty in the winter semester 2016/2017 and in the summer semester 2017, each with second places.

Litigation representation

In 2002 Baldus took over the legal representation in the oral negotiation of a norm control procedure that was presented to the Federal Constitutional Court by the Hamburg District Court. In the underlying case, Baldus opposed the ban on double names for children by Section 1616, Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the BGB a. F. and wanted his child to be allowed to have a double name made up of his name and that of his wife, who kept her surname after the marriage. The First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court ruled the matter negative.

Athletic career

Before his legal career, Baldus was active as a footballer and played a total of 21 competitive games for VfB Wissen in the 1983/84 season of the Verbandsliga Rheinland (then the fourth highest division in German football) . He also played several times for the German A youth national team of the German Football Association .

Publications (selection)

Web links

Commons : Manfred Baldus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First report on the death of Bodo Ramelow on Twitter (last accessed on December 30, 2021); Message from Interior Minister Georg Maier dated December 30, 2021.
  2. ↑ a b "A strong voice falls silent". On the death of Manfred Baldus , Thüringer Allgemeine from December 31, 2021, p. 2 (= Thüringer Landeszeitung from December 31, 2021, p. 2).
  3. ↑ Investigation committee in accordance with the Code of Ethics on uni-erfurt.de (last accessed on June 15, 2019).
  4. ↑ Overview of commissions on the website of the Council for Social and Economic Data (accessed on June 15, 2019).
  5. ↑ Printed matter 6/5434 of the Thuringian Parliament (accessed on March 20, 2018).
  6. ↑ Constitutional judge elected by the state parliament on sueddeutsche.de (accessed on March 20, 2018).
  7. ↑ E.g. the unity of the legal system: meanings of a legal formula in legal theory, civil and constitutional law studies of the 19th and 20th centuries , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-428-08370-9 .
  8. ↑ Matthias Knauff (Ed.): Thuringia regional law. Study book , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-2649-3 ; with Joachim Linck , Joachim Lindner , Holger Poppenhäger , Matthias Ruffert (eds.): The Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia. Handkommentar , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-7245-5 .
  9. ↑ E.g. delimitation of security law - new police law dogmatics? In: The administration . Journal of Administrative Law and Administrative Sciences, 2014, pp. 1–23; Transnational Police Law - Constitutional foundations and simple legal design of police powers to intervene in cross-border matters , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001. ISBN 978-3-789-07003-7 .
  10. ↑ First anti-totalitarian basic norm, now puzzling super norm: Article 1, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law . In: Hans Michael Heinig / Frank Schorkopf : 70 years of GG. What is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany? , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-31078-6 , pp. 47-66; Fighting for Human Dignity - The Debates since 1949 , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2016. ISBN 978-3-518-29799-5 ; Guarantee of human dignity and the thesis of absoluteness. Interim report on a future-oriented debate . In: Archives of Public Law , 2011, pp. 529–552.
  11. ↑ See list of members of the Network Freedom of Science , last accessed on April 17, 2021.
  12. ↑ Prize for good teaching on uni-erfurt.de (accessed December 7, 2018).
  13. ↑ Lectures / participation in public events. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  14. ^ Lawyer Thomas Fuchs, Heidelberg: BVerfG, communication from 01/30/2002 - 02/10/2002. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  15. ^ RZ-Online GmbH: RZ-Online. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Player profile at VfB Wissen. Retrieved June 24, 2012 .
  17. ↑ CV. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Baldus, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and constitutional judge
BIRTH DATE May 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienhausen
DATE OF DEATH before December 30, 2021