Peter Macke

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Peter Ernst Wilhelm Macke (born November 26, 1939 in Berlin ; † September 17, 2014 in Bretten ) was a German lawyer .

Peter Macke studied in Cologne and received his doctorate there in 1966. In 1977 he became a judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . From 1981 to 1991 he was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice . There he initiated a. a. the erection of a stele in memory of the victims of Nazi justice.

From 1991 he headed the development staff of the Higher Regional Court in the Ministry of Justice of the State of Brandenburg in order to work on the reorganization of the judiciary. In September 1993 he became President of the Constitutional Court of the State of Brandenburg and three months later founding President of the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court in Brandenburg an der Havel . In 2004 he retired.

Macke was chairman of the Association of Federal Judges at the Federal Court of Justice from 1987 to 1993, at the same time chairman of the Association of Federal Judges at the Federal Court of Justice from 1987 to 1992 and a member of the Federal Executive of the German Association of Judges . In 1997 he was elected President of the German Traffic Court Assembly.

Fonts

  • The legal and state thinking of Johannes Oldendorp . Cologne 1966 (diss.)
  • Judicial reform: impetus from the establishment of the judiciary in the new federal states . Bonn 1994 ISBN 3-86077-307-0 .
  • The state's mandate to convey values . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-3125-4 .
  • Suum cuique, each his own. Frederick the Great on questions of law and the administration of justice . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-7748-1 .

literature

  • Obituaries: Peter Macke . In: Der Spiegel 39/2014, p. 151

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