Peter M. Huber

Peter Michael Huber (born January 21, 1959 in Munich ) is a German legal scholar and former politician ( CSU / CDU ). Since November 2010 he has been a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court . Before that, from November 2009 he was Minister of the Interior of the Free State of Thuringia ( Lieberknecht cabinet ). Huber has also been a full professor at the University of Munich since 2002 .

He should not be confused with the legal scholar Peter Huber (* 1966), who has been teaching at the University of Mainz since 2000 .

education

After graduating from the Benedictine high school in Ettal , he did his military service as a reserve officer candidate with the mountain hunter battalion 231 in Bad Reichenhall. He then studied law at the Universities of Munich and Geneva on a scholarship from the Maximilianeum Foundation . In December 1987 he passed his second state examination in Munich . In the same year he was awarded a doctorate degree at the University of Munich with a thesis on " Protection of fundamental rights through organization and procedures as a competence problem in the separation of powers and in the federal state" (supervisor: Peter Badura ). jur. PhD . There he completed his habilitation there in February 1991 with a paper on “Protection against competition in administrative law”; Huber was awarded the qualification to teach constitutional and administrative law.

job

After working at the Universities of Augsburg , Jena and Bayreuth , Huber has held the Chair of Public Law and State Philosophy at the University of Munich since 2002 . Before the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers , Huber reported on the topic of European and national constitutional law at the 2000 conference in Leipzig . Since 2001 he has been a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

Huber is co-editor of the specialist journal Archive of Public Law and, before he was sworn in as Minister of the Interior in Thuringia, was a member of the State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , chairman of the German law faculty convention and chairman of the commission to determine concentration in the media sector .

Huber put his inaugural lecture in Munich under the title “Germany in the Federalism Trap?” And analyzed the state and need for reform in Germany's federal system. Huber deepened this topic further when he submitted the opinion of the public law department for the 65th German Lawyers' Conference in Bonn in 2004. The report appeared under the title “Clearer division of responsibility between the federal, state and local governments?”.

As one of several experts, Peter M. Huber was appointed to the commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat in 2003 for the modernization of the federal system . This body prepared the major amendment to the Basic Law, which became known as Federalism Reform I.

From November 2009 to November 16, 2010, Huber was Interior Minister of the State of Thuringia in the Lieberknecht cabinet .

On November 11, 2010, Huber was elected judge of the Federal Constitutional Court by the election committee of the German Bundestag . There he belongs to the Second Senate as the successor to Siegfried Broß . On November 16, 2010, Huber received his certificate of appointment from Federal President Christian Wulff . As a constitutional judge in the Second Senate, Huber has previously acted, among other things, as a rapporteur in the procedure for the constitutional review of the euro rescue fund ESM and again from 2015 to 2020 in the public sector purchase program (PSPP). After strong criticism from the public in Germany and the European Union of the decision on the PSPP of May 2020, Huber explained the decision in a rare interview in the FAZ and countered the critics with the words: "The judgment was imperative".

In 2020 Huber was elected to the Academia Europaea .

criticism

In 2014, his work as a constitutional judge met with criticism from conservative CDU functionaries in the Xanten district . The Federal Constitutional Court was accused of pursuing the liberalization of society , which was viewed negatively in particular by the CDU member Huber. The critics around Volker Kauder , Wolfgang Bosbach and Johannes Singhammer were particularly concerned with social equality rights for homosexuals , but the lifting of the 3% hurdle in European elections was also criticized.

Habilitations

Successful habilitation at Huber:

• 2014: Sebastian Unger (Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum )
• 2010: Ferdinand Wollenschläger (Professor at the University of Augsburg )
• 2000/2001: Stefan Storr (Professor at the Vienna University of Economics )

Others

Huber is committed to more (direct) democracy and was a member of the board of trustees of the more democratic association of the same name until May 12, 2012 .

He is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

• Protection of fundamental rights through organization and procedure as a competence problem in the separation of powers and in the state. VVF, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-88259-532-9 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1987).
• Protection against competition in administrative law. Right to protection and legal protection in steering and distribution decisions by the public administration. Mohr, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-16-145804-4 (habilitation thesis, University of Munich, 1990/91).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The busy man. FAZ , June 12, 2013, accessed on July 5, 2013 . 
2. ^ Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers / Topics and Reporters ( Memento from May 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Thuringia from today without Minister of the Interior. Thüringer Allgemeine , November 16, 2010, accessed on May 12, 2013 . 
4. ^ German Bundestag: Three new constitutional judges elected . ( Memento from March 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ FAZ: Inaugural visit of the Federal President to the BVerfG
6. ↑ zeit.de May 8, 2013: Torment Mario. - In Karlsruhe, the European Central Bank has to explain why it wants to buy up government bonds from the crisis countries
7. ↑ Reinhard Müller in an interview with Peter Huber: The judgment was imperative . In: FAZ, May 13, 2020, p. 2
8. ↑ Anger over liberal judgments: CDU wants to restrict the rights of constitutional judges . Spiegel Online from April 6, 2014. Accessed April 7, 2014.
9. ↑ Peter M. Huber: 20 Years of More Democracy - a departure that must be continued in the commemorative publication “20 Years of More Democracy” . ( Memento from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
10. ^ Constitutional law teacher for referendum , April 26, 2004, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 11/2004
11. ↑ Mehr Demokratie eV: Kuratorium
12. ^ The delicate balancing act of constitutional judge Huber, July 5, 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter M. Huber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Peter M. Huber at the LMU Munich