Thomas Giesen

Thomas Giesen (* 1946 in Koblenz ) is a German lawyer and was the Saxon data protection officer from 1992 to 2003 .

Life

From 1968 to 1972 he studied law and philosophy in Bonn . Then he was a trainee lawyer in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz until 1975. From 1975 to 1990 he worked as a lawyer in Koblenz. In 1990 and 1991 he was department head in the Saxon Ministry of Agriculture and then head of the data protection unit in the Saxon State Chancellery. This activity was followed in 1991 and 1997 by the election or re-election as the Saxon data protection officer by the Saxon state parliament . In 1993 he did his doctorate on an organizational law topic at the University of Mainz.

In 2004 and 2005 he worked as an EU advisor in Latvia. In 2005, he was also a member of the administrative reform expert commission to develop proposals for reorganizing the administration in the Free State of Saxony. He then settled as a lawyer in Dresden with a focus on public law and criminal law.

On May 26, 2005, Erich Iltgen, President of the State Parliament, awarded him the Saxon Constitutional Medal for "building up the structures and creating the legal basis for data protection in the Free State" .

He is the brother of the diplomat Richard Giesen and the uncle of his son, the legal scholar Richard Giesen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release from May 26, 2005: Honoring for services to the Free State - Erich Iltgen, President of the State Parliament, honors seven citizens with the Saxon Constitutional Medal 2005 ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 24, 2010