Peter Ehlers (Administrative Lawyer)

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Peter Ehlers

Peter Ehlers (born August 30, 1943 in Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein province ) is a former German administrative lawyer and was President of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) from 1989 to 2008 . During his tenure, he was particularly committed to protecting the seas.

Life and work

Ehlers studied law in Marburg and Kiel from 1967 to 1970 . He received his doctorate in 1969 on the subject of "Intergovernmental Advisory Maritime Organization (IMCO) and its significance for international maritime shipping".

From 1970 he was the department head for maritime transport in the waterways and shipping directorate north. In this role he was in charge of the sailing competitions at the 1972 Olympic Games in the Kiel Fjord.

After moving to the Federal Ministry of Transport in 1973, he was responsible for maritime pilots and ship safety in the maritime transport department. Among other things, his area of ​​responsibility included the introduction of the transfer of sea pilots by helicopter. From 1976 to 1981 he was managing director of the commission of the pilot administrations of the Baltic Sea states and German representative in the commission of the pilot administrations of the North Sea states.

In 1981 he moved to the German Hydrographic Institute (DHI) as head of the central department, before returning to the Federal Ministry of Transport in 1983 as head of the "Marine Environment Protection, Hydrography, Maritime Radio" department. During this time he helped, among other things, to prepare the first North Sea Protection Conference. In 1989 he was called back to the DHI, which had meanwhile been renamed the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, as President and Professor. He retired on August 29, 2008.

After the death of his first wife, Ehlers is married for a second time and has a daughter and a son.

Offices

  • 1983–1988 German head of delegation in the Helsinki Commission ( HELCOM ) and the Oslo Commission
  • 1983–1989 German head of delegation in the Committee for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)
  • 1984–1986 Chairman of the Helsinki Commission
  • 1987–1998 Chairman of the Shipping Committee of the Helsinki Commission
  • 1988–1999 Deputy Chairman of the German Society for Positioning and Navigation and since 1999 member of the Council
  • since 1989 German head of delegation in the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
  • since 1989 member of the conference of leading marine scientists in Northern Germany
  • 1989–1991 Chairman of the North Sea Hydrographic Commission (again since 2006)
  • 1990–1993 Chairman of the Baltic Sea Hydrographic Commission
  • since 1990 member of the Senate Commission for Oceanography of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • 1990–2000 German representative in the EUREKA joint project EUROMAR for the promotion of marine surveillance technology , from 1996 to 2000 chairman
  • 1990–2004 member of the technical advisory board of Germanischer Lloyd
  • since 1992 member of the maritime transport advisory board at the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development
  • since 1993 member of the board of directors of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven
  • 1995–2002 German representative in the Advisory Committee of the European Center for Electronic Nautical Charts
  • 1997 President of the XV. International Hydrographic Conference , Monaco
  • since 1997 German head of delegation in the Intergovernmental Commission for Oceanography of UNESCO and member of the Executive Council
  • since 1995 member of the IHO strategy group
  • since 2004 head of the HELCOM Youth Forum
  • 2005 President of the 3rd Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference in Monaco
  • since 2005 Deputy Chairman of the German Nautical Association , 2008–2011 Chairman
  • since 2008 chairman of the advisory board of the Gesellschaft für Maritime Technik

Academic activities and offices

In his work as an academic teacher, Ehlers tried particularly to convey the protection of the seas as a topic on an international level. So in excursions z. B. visited HELCOM or interviewed the “Maritime Player” in Hamburg.

Honors

  • May 31, 2007 - Award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Rostock
  • 2016 - Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works

  • Peter Ehlers, Philip Kunig: Waste disposal on the high seas , 1978
  • Peter Ehlers, Hannelore Grimm, Friedrich Karl Rühr (arr.): Lotsen - Mensch Natur und Technik , 1979
  • Peter Ehlers, Georg Duensing, Günther Heise (ed.): Schifffahrt und Meer , 1993
  • Peter Ehlers, Wilfried Erbguth (Ed.): The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea comes into force in 1994
  • Peter Ehlers, Wilfried Erbguth (ed.): National consequences of the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea , 1995
  • Peter Ehlers, Wilfried Erbguth (Ed.): 50 Years of the United Nations , 1997
  • Peter Ehlers, Wilfried Erbguth (Ed.): Current Developments in Maritime Law , 2000
  • Rüdiger Wolfrum, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Peter Ehlers (Eds.): Marine Issues from a Scientific Political and Legal Perspective , 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Ehlers, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the BSH
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein Province , German Empire