Peter Schmidt (lawyer)

Peter Schmidt (* 1943 in Leipzig ) is a German lawyer and former judge at the Federal Administrative Court .

Life

Schmidt's grandfather was the Leipzig architect August Hermann Schmidt .

He studied law at the Universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Munich . After passing the second state examination in law, he became a legal assistant at the Bavarian Administrative Court in 1971 . In 1972 Schmidt was appointed court assessor and assigned to the Bavarian Administrative Court in Munich . From 1974 he was a member of the government and from 1975 he was a senior government member at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior . In 1977 he moved to the Oberallgäu district office. In September 1980 Schmidt was appointed judge at the Bavarian Administrative Court in Munich and seconded to the Bavarian Administrative Court. In 1981 he was appointed judge at the Bavarian Administrative Court.

In August 1989 Schmidt was appointed judge at the Federal Administrative Court. There he was a member of the 5th Revision Senate, which is responsible, among other things, for welfare law, asylum seeker benefits law, severely disabled people, maternity protection, youth welfare and youth protection law, training and vocational training promotion as well as displaced persons and nationality law. Most recently he was Deputy Chairman of this Senate. He retired on March 1, 2008.

Schmidt is co-author of the commentary to the Administrative Procedure Code of Eyermann .

His brother Albrecht Schmidt (* 1938) is the former spokesman for the board of directors and chairman of the supervisory board of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG .

Web links

• Press release of the Federal Administrative Court No. 13/2008 of March 3, 2008