Peter Küspert

John B. Emerson and Peter Küspert (2013, right)

Peter Küspert (born September 13, 1955 in Hof ) is a German judge . From 2011 to 2015 he was President of the Higher Regional Court in Nuremberg . Since March 2015 he has been President of the Munich Higher Regional Court and the Bavarian Constitutional Court .

Career

Peter Küspert began his legal career in 1983 in the judiciary of the Free State of Bavaria as a judge at the Wolfratshausen District Court and the Garmisch-Partenkirchen District Court . After several years in the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice , he became President of the Regional Court of Regensburg in 2003 . In 2010 he returned to the Ministry of Justice and became the head of the human resources department. In 2011 he was appointed President of the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court. In November 2014, he was elected President of the Munich Higher Regional Court as successor to Karl Huber with effect from March 1, 2015 . The Public Prosecutor General Christoph Strötz was elected as his successor as President of the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court . In December 2014, he was also elected President of the Bavarian Constitutional Court to succeed Karl Huber, who retired at the end of February 2015.

Private life

Peter Küspert is married.

Awards

• 2017: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver
• 2019: Matthäus Runtinger Medal

Publications

• The parliamentary control of government action in the case law of the Bavarian Constitutional Court, monograph , 2018, Nomos-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8487-5440-3

Public statements

• Interview with Peter Küspert on Bavarian TV on May 23, 2017
• Visit to the Passau District Office on November 8, 2018
• Pulpit speech of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing by Peter Küspert on March 10, 2019
• Küspert: The Bavarian Constitution is the putty of society from March 10, 2019
• The constitution that unites us of March 11, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deutscher Richterbund (Ed.): Handbuch der Justiz 2010/2011. The carriers and organs of judicial power in the Federal Republic of Germany . 30th year. CF Müller (Imprint of the Hüthig Jehle Rehm publishing group ), Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8114-3916-0 , p. 77 .
2. ↑ NSU trial is expected to cost 37 million euros
3. ↑ OLG President Küspert goes to Munich . Mittelbayerische Zeitung Online from November 25, 2014.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Bavarian Legal and Administrative Report of November 25, 2014.
5. ^ Peter Küspert elected President of the Constitutional Court . Die Welt Online from December 11, 2014.
6. ↑ Link to the press photo , Mittelbayerische Zeitung of July 11, 2018