Peter Winterstein

Peter Winterstein (* 1949 in Neustadt an der Aisch ) is a German lawyer, retired Vice President of the Rostock Higher Regional Court and Chairman of the Supervision Court Association . V., Recklinghausen.

Life

After completing his legal training, Peter Winterstein began his judicial career in Hamburg in 1978 . In February 1981 he was appointed judge at the Hamburg-Harburg district court. From February 1986 he worked for three years in the Bonn Federal Ministry of Justice and was involved in the working group that worked out the draft reform for a care law that replaced the guardianship and guardianship law for adults and incapacitation on January 1, 1992 . Then he returned to Hamburg as a judge. There he worked from January 1992 to December 1995 as head of the social therapeutic services of the authority for work, health and social affairs, to which the Hamburg care authority also belonged.

In 1996 he was accepted into the judicial service of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Here Winterstein worked from the start in Department 3 (“Constitution and Law”) of the Ministry of Justice. In December 1999 he took over the position of Deputy Head of Department and in March 2001 was appointed Ministerial Councilor. Since December 1, 2004, Winterstein was director of the Schwerin District Court . From January 2010 until his retirement he was Vice President of the Rostock Higher Regional Court.

Peter Winterstein is Federal Chairman of the Supervision Court Day (formerly Guardianship Court Day) and an expert in the field of supervision law . As a book author, he is involved in several standard works on supervision law, and he is co-editor of the specialist journal Betreuungsrechtliche Praxis (BtPrax), Bundesanzeiger-Verlag .

Works

• Supervision law (comment), Munich: Beck, 2014, 5th, completely revised. Ed., ISBN 978-3406659065
• Overview of further articles