Rolf Geffken

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Rolf Geffken (2017)

Rolf Geffken (* 12. February 1949 in Wingst ) is a German lawyer for labor law , author and publisher , lecturer, China - and shipping expert .

Life

Geffkens father was Karl Geffken, headmaster in Bremerhaven , son of organist and teacher Johann Geffken in Geversdorf and grandson of the community leader of Westerwede , Hinrich Geffken, the 1902 squad declaration of spouses Clara Westhoff and Rainer Maria Rilke signed.

He put 1967 on School of Theodor Storm School in Bremerhaven , the High School and began in October 1967, the study of law at the University of Hamburg . In 1972 he passed the first legal examination and in 1976 the major legal state examination at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court . After passing his first exam, at the beginning of 1973 he was to be denied employment as a trainee lawyer because of the radical decree. There were national and international protests, especially from the Young Socialists and the ÖTV trade union . The reasons given by the then Justice Senator Seeler Geffkens membership in the MSB Spartakus , the book he wrote “ Class Justice ” and a hectographed paper entitled “Labor Law in Capitalism ”. However, the First Mayor Peter Schulz announced at a state party conference of the Hamburg SPD that Geffken would still be made civil servants.

In 1978 he received his doctorate on the subject of “ Seafarers' Strikes and Dock Workers Boycotts - Legal Problems of Labor Disputes on Land and at Sea” at the University of Bremen under Reinhard Hoffmann . In February 1977 he was admitted to the bar in Hamburg. Since 1984 he has held the additional title of specialist lawyer for labor law .

Professional activities

As a trainee lawyer he was the deputy chairman of a staff council in the Hamburg judicial administration and worked part-time as a consultant in trade union education work for the trade unions ÖTV and DAG , from 1977 also as a lecturer for labor law at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics and as a lecturer at various trade union schools , but also at the University of Hamburg and the University of Oldenburg .

It mainly represents employees, works councils , staff councils and trade unions , but also seafarers and migrants . In numerous campaigns and petitions he advocated the special concerns of foreign seafarers and founded a corresponding advisory center.

In connection with the planned introduction of the International Maritime Register (ISR), at the request of the Green Party in 1988, he was heard as an expert by the Bundestag's transport committee and spoke out against the project mainly for socio-political and constitutional reasons.

Since 1995 he has given lectures at numerous universities in Asia, such as Manila , Taipei , Poona , Guangzhou and Beijing , organized the first German-Chinese conference on labor law in 2004 in Guangzhou and the first German-Chinese lawyers' conference in Tianjin in 2008.

For several years he was a member of the round table at the German-Chinese Rule of Law Dialogue in the Federal Ministry of Justice . The blocking of his website by the Chinese government because of his criticism of the Chinese legal development was the subject of two inquiries from the MP and former judge at the Federal Court of Justice Wolfgang Nešković in the German Bundestag .

Politician

In 1983 he joined the Green Alternative List in Hamburg and was a member of the regional executive committee there until 1990. From 1986 to 1988 he was a member of the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel district assembly . In 1990 he left the party and joined the SPD in 1992 , where he had been active in the Harburg district association since 1992 . In 2004, because of Agenda 2010 , he took part in the development of the “ Elective Work and Social Justice ” (WASG) in Hamburg. He has been a member there since the WASG merged with the PDS to form DIE LINKE . In 2005 he ran as a direct candidate for the Cuxhaven-Osterholz constituency for the Bundestag , and in 2008 as a direct candidate for the Cuxhaven constituency for the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Private

He is married and has two children. His daughter is the opera singer Gerphil-Geraldine Flores-Geffken, who lives in the Philippines . One of his brothers is emeritus professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Hamburg Detlef Geffken.

Publications

  • Class justice . Marxist sheets publishing house, Frankfurt / Main 1972.
  • Seafarers' strike and dockers boycott. Legal problems of labor disputes on land and at sea . Publishers labor movement and social science , Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-921630-17-7 .
  • Law and Labor in the Third World. Example Philippines . VWB-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86135-024-6 .
  • Work in china . Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2004, ISBN 3-8329-0653-3 .
  • The Price of Growth: Labor Relations & Labor Law in the People's Republic of China . VSA-Verlag , Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89965-155-3 .
  • Strike in China too ?: A German-Chinese dialogue about freedom of association, trade unions & industrial action . VAR-Verlag, Cadenberge 2011, ISBN 3-924621-07-1 .
  • The Chinese Labor Contract Law: The New Chinese Labor Contract Law - Revised Edition (Alternative Law) . 4th edition. VAR-Verlag, Cadenberge 2014, ISBN 3-924621-08-X .
  • Labor and industrial action in the port: On the history of port work and the port workers' union . Edition Falkenberg Verlag, Rotenburg (Wümme) 2015, ISBN 3-95494-053-1 .
  • The fight for the law: Contributions to the complicated relationship between politics, labor and justice . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 3-89965-743-8 .
  • Dealing with Labor Law - A Handbook for Employees. With a foreword by Rudolf Dreßler . 3. Edition. VAR-Verlag, Cadenberge 2019, ISBN 978-3-924621-19-3 .

Publications in professional journals

  • International Maritime Register violates applicable law . In: New Journal for Labor Law (NZA) . No. 3 . Verlag CHBeck , Munich 1989, p. 88–92 ( digitized version [accessed on June 16, 2019] table of contents of the issue).
  • Legal purity as a loss of substance - On WR Beyer's criticism of Hans Kelsen's legal positivism - Proposals for a new approach to legal philosophy . In: Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy (ARSP) . tape 79 , 4th quarter, no. 4 . VAR-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-924621-13-6 , pp. 536-543 .
  • Participation in "target agreement" . In: The staff council . No. 12 . Bund-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 518 ff .
  • Target agreement - a challenge for human resources and labor law . In: New Journal for Labor Law (NZA) . No. 19 . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2000, p. 1033-1038 ( digitized [accessed on June 16, 2019] table of contents of the issue).
  • Against the creeping individualization of employee rights . In: Labor law in the company . No. 9 . Bund-Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 514 ff . ( Digital version [PDF; accessed on June 16, 2019] text from www.archiv.labournet.de).
  • Lawyers: Motor of the German-Chinese Dialogue - The 1st German-Chinese Lawyers' Conference . In: Journal of Chinese Law (ZChinR) . tape 15 , no. 4 , October 1, 2008, p. 350–353 ( digitized version [PDF; 107 kB ; accessed on June 16, 2019]).
  • Are there limits to a reform of the Personnel Representation Act? Visions of participation in the public service . In: The staff council . No. 10 . Bund-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 390 ff . ( Digitized version [PDF; 147 kB ; accessed on June 18, 2019]).
  • From the fight against work contracts: The case study VW group. An interim report . In: Critical Justice . No. 2 . Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 2014, p. 196–206 ( digitized [PDF; 146 kB ; accessed on June 16, 2019]).
  • The young coalition of workers in the status process . In: Law of Work (RdA) . No. 3 . Verlag CH Beck, 2015, p. 167 ff . ( Digitized version [accessed on June 16, 2019] Table of contents / treatises of the booklet).

Publications in the Niederdeutschen Heimatblatt

  • The teacher and organist house in Geversdorf. Testimony of a schoolmaster's life in the country at the beginning of the 20th century . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 774 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven June 2014, p. 3 ( digital version [PDF; 2,3 MB ; accessed on June 16, 2019]).
  • In the 1950s at the Leh freight yard. Memories of a childhood between the Elbe and Weser . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 789 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven September 2015, p. 3–4 ( digitized version [PDF; 377 kB ; accessed on August 3, 2020]).
  • “I'll never become a Nazi!” In 1940, the Cuxhaven captain Karl Alexander was murdered in the concentration camp . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 813 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven September 2017, p. 3–4 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.4 MB ; accessed on July 13, 2019]).

Novels

Narrative volume

Biographies

  • A North German Century. Work and life of the Bremerhaven headmaster Karl Geffken from Geversdorf an der Oste . 2nd Edition. VAR-Verlag, 2008, DNB  137225113 .
  • The great work: Worpswede in the life and work of Rainer Maria Rilke . Edition Falkenberg, Rotenburg (Wümme) 2014, ISBN 3-95494-043-4 .

literature

  • Jean Claude Bodson, Peter Schütt (eds.): Lawyer - Author - Politics: An annotated bibliography of the publications and work of Rolf Geffken (alternative law) . VAR Verlag, Cadenberge 1993, ISBN 3-924621-03-9 .
  • Jörn Boewe: The lateral thinker. At the side of seafarers, works councils, trade unionists: Rolf Geffken began working as a lawyer 35 years ago . In: young world . Verlag 8. Mai GmbH , Berlin December 18, 2012, p. 15 ( Digital copy (excerpt) [accessed on June 16, 2019] → See also: Full text. In: www.drgeffken.de. ).
  • Martina Goy: Angels also live in China . In: The world . Axel Springer SE Verlag, Berlin October 31, 2010 ( digitized version [accessed June 16, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Rolf Geffken  - Collection of Images

Individual proof

  1. ^ The teacher and organist house in Geversdorf. Testimony of a schoolmaster's life in the country at the beginning of the 20th century . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No.  774 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven June 2014, p. 3 ( digital version [PDF; 2,3 MB ; accessed on June 16, 2019]).
  2. ↑ radicals. Hamburg Slavic? In: Der Spiegel . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg March 12, 1973 ( digitized version [accessed on February 16, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Geffken, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer for labor law, author and publisher, lecturer, China and shipping expert
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wingst