Matthias Pechstein

Matthias Pechstein (born December 18, 1958 ) is a German legal scholar .

After graduating from high school in Mainz in 1978 , Pechstein studied law at the Universities of Mainz and Nice from 1980 to 1985 . After his first state examination in Mainz in 1985, he initially worked as a research assistant at Eckart Klein's chair at the University of Mainz until 1987 . In 1987 he received his doctorate there . In 1989 he passed his second state examination in Mainz. Subsequently, he was government councilor in the Ministry of the Interior in Bonn until 1990 , from 1990 to 1993 research assistant at the chair of Rudolf Streinz at the University of Bayreuth and then from 1993 to 1994 judge at the Berlin Administrative Court . In 1994 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bayreuth with the venia legendi for public law , international law and European law . After serving as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1994/1995 , he has held the Jean Monnet Chair for Public Law with a focus on European Law at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder) since 1995 .

His research interests include European state aid law and procedural law, civil service law and fundamental freedoms .

Pechstein is currently the editor of the journal for civil service law .

Work (selection)

The member states of the EC as "guardians of the common interest". Legislative emergency in Community law , Baden-Baden 1987, also Diss., Univ. Mainz, 1987. ISBN 3-7890-1440-0
Family justice as a structural imperative for the state order. To delimit intervention and performance in measures of the so-called family burden equalization . Baden-Baden 1994, also Habil.-Schrift, Univ. Bayreuth, 1993/94. ISBN 3-7890-3476-2
EU procedural law . With the collaboration of Philipp Kubicki and Niklas Görlitz. 4th edition Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150743-4
European law . With Andreas Haratsch and Christian Koenig. With the collaboration of Tobias Fuchs and Philipp Kubicki. 7th edition Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150322-1
Career law in the federal and state levels . 2nd edition Berlin: DBB Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-87863-173-6