Rolf Kniffka
Rolf Kniffka (born July 13, 1949 in Brilon-Wald ) is a German lawyer and was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice .
biography
After studying law and legal clerkship, Kniffka joined the judicial service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1977 . He began his judicial career as a probationary judge at the Bonn Regional Court and was appointed to the Siegburg , Bonn and Waldbröl district courts . After a leave of absence for the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing doctorate Kniffka 1983 at the University of Bonn with the investigation "The legal liability privileges of the judges in Germany and England" Dr. iur. In 1983 Kniffka was appointed judge at the Dortmund Regional Court. In 1991 he became a judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . From 1989 to 1993 he was seconded to the Federal Court of Justice as a research assistant. On June 2, 1998, Kniffka became a judge at the Federal Court of Justice, where he was assigned to the VII Civil Senate responsible for building law and the Federal Service Court . On November 6, 2008, he was appointed presiding judge at the BGH; since then he has headed the VII Civil Senate.
Upon reaching the age limit, Kniffka retired on November 1, 2014.
Until May 2012, Kniffka was President of the German Construction Court Conference based in Hamm. He is also an honorary professor at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover .
Kniffka is co-editor of the magazine construction law (BauR) in the Werner publishing house . He has written numerous articles on private building law . One of the publications that should be mentioned is the compendium of building law published together with Koeble and the online commentary on building contract law.
Web links
- Press release No. 203/2008 of the BGH from November 6, 2008
- Literature by and about Rolf Kniffka in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundesjustizportal.de: Presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice Prof. Dr. Rolf Kniffka retired November 1, 2014, accessed on July 25, 2016
- ↑ Press release on entering retirement
- ↑ Review by Axel Wirth in ZfBR 2001, 144 on Kniffka / Koeble (PDF file; 55 kB).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kniffka, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brilon forest |