Otakar Motejl
Otakar Motejl (born September 10, 1932 in Prague , Czechoslovakia, † May 9, 2010 in Brno ) was a Czech lawyer and non-party politician .
Life
Motejl studied at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague , where he received his doctorate in 1955 . completed. He then worked as a lawyer in Banská Bystrica , Kladno and Prague.
Between 1966 and 1968 he worked in the Legal Institute of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Justice, then from 1968 to 1970 as a judge at the Supreme Court of the ČSSR. During the years of normalization he defended dissidents and also the rock band The Plastic People of the Universe .
From 1990 to 1992 Motejl was President of the Supreme Court of the ČSFR, then until 1998 President of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic . In 1998 he was appointed Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic in the government of Miloš Zeman . On December 18, 2000 he was elected by the Czech Chamber of Deputies to the Ombudsman (Czech Veřejný ochránce práv - Public Guardian of the Law) and confirmed in 2006 for a further six years.
Motejl also took over the function of chairman of the arbitration tribunal in the "Diag Human" case after a period of reflection .
He died after a brief illness on May 9, 2010 in the University Hospital Brno.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Czech Ombudsman: Obituary for Otakar Motejl ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 10, 2010.
- ↑ Lidovky.cz
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Otakar Motejl in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Profile Otakar Motejls on the official website of the Czech Ombudsman
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SURNAME | Motejl, Otakar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic (1998) |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2010 |
Place of death | Brno |