Meinhard Starostik

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Meinhard Starostik (left) and Heinz Raschdorf with the first collective complaints against data retention before the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe (2007)

Meinhard Holger Starostik (born June 22, 1949 in Marl ; † June 12, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and judge at the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin . He became known through constitutional complaints against data retention and the electronic remuneration statement .

Career

Starostik studied law for two semesters at the Free University of Berlin and was involved in the Social Democratic University Association (SHB). He passed his state examination in law in 1973 at the Ruhr University in Bochum . After that, he was unable to become a trainee lawyer for eight years , as he was denied entry into the public service as a result of the then usual rule request to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Starostik was previously a member of the “Communist Student Union / Marxist-Leninists” (KSB / ML), an offshoot of the KPD / ML .

As a licensed attorney, he initially mainly represented asylum seekers from 1982 , before specializing in business and tax law in Berlin in 1992. From the 1980s onwards, Starostik supported the civil rights movement and was particularly committed to the protection of personal data. Among other things, he supported the census boycott of 1987.

In 2005 Starostik filed a constitutional complaint against the amendment to the Telecommunications Act and the associated storage of personal data. As an agent for around 35,000 class action plaintiffs, Starostik then filed a complaint against data retention on December 31, 2007, and the proceedings made legal history. The largest constitutional complaint to date was granted on March 2, 2010.

On March 31, 2010, he again filed a class action with the Federal Constitutional Court , this time as the agent of around 22,000 plaintiffs in the proceedings against the electronic remuneration statement.

Grave of Meinhard Starostik in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

On March 8, 2012, Starostik was elected judge at the Constitutional Court of Berlin by the House of Representatives at the suggestion of the pirate faction .

Starostik was elected first chairman of the board of directors of the Cultural Commons Collecting Society (C3S) on September 25, 2013 . From 2012 he became publicly involved in the development of the alternative to the collecting society for music copyrights GEMA .

Meinhard Starostik died on June 12, 2018 after a serious illness in Berlin. The burial took place on July 11, 2018 at the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 18-K-114).

Web links

Commons : Meinhard Starostik  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.kompany.com/p/de/pr123%20chemnitz
  2. ^ Digital courage: PM: Obituary for Meinhard Starostik: Representing the powerless against the powerful | Digital courage. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ E-mail providers are suing in Karlsruhe against surveillance measures . heise online, June 22, 2005
  4. ↑ The government is trembling at this attorney's lawsuit . Die Welt, March 31, 2010
  5. ^ Meinhard Starostik elected state constitutional judge . golem.de, March 14, 2012
  6. ^ Foundation of the GEMA alternative C3S in Hamburg . C3S.cc, September 28, 2013
  7. ↑ The murder fails . Lecture on C3S at the 29th Chaos Communication Congress
  8. ↑ Berlin lawyer and constitutional judge Starostik died . On: https://www.focus.de/ . June 12, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  9. ↑ Obituary notice of the family in the Berlin Tagesspiegel from June 24, 2018. Accessed on November 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Starostik, Meinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starostik, Meinhard Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Marl
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2018
Place of death Berlin