Udo Steiner
Udo Steiner (born September 16, 1939 in Bayreuth ) was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court from 1995 to 2007 .
Steiner grew up in Franconia. After graduating from high school in Erlangen in 1958, he began studying law in Erlangen , Saarbrücken and Cologne . Steiner was in Erlangen in 1965 with a thesis on constitution making and constitutional power of the people doctorate ; 1972 followed the habilitation with the subject public administration by private .
From 1973 Steiner was university professor for public law at the universities of Erlangen, Göttingen , Bielefeld and Regensburg , from 1976 to 1977 dean of the law faculty in Bielefeld and from 1988 to 1990 dean of the law faculty in Regensburg. From 1976 to 1979 Steiner also worked as a part-time judge at the Higher Administrative Court . Steiner has been married since 1967 and has 4 children.
From October 13, 1995, Steiner was a member of the first senate of the Federal Constitutional Court and continues to teach at the University of Regensburg. There he always offers a lecture on public building law in the winter semester. At the end of September 30, 2007, his term of office at the Federal Constitutional Court ended because he reached the age limit of 68 years. Ferdinand Kirchhof was elected as his successor .
On February 1, 2008, he was appointed ombudsman for victims and survivors of railway accidents by Deutsche Bahn AG . In this function he succeeds Otto Ernst Krasney , who held this position from 1998 after the ICE accident in Eschede . He is currently chairman of the arbitration tribunal of the Bundesliga .
In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .
Awards
Web links
- Literature by and about Udo Steiner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Press release No. 105/2009 of the Federal Constitutional Court of September 16, 2009 on the occasion of his 70th birthday
- Press release No. 77/2014 of the Federal Constitutional Court of September 15, 2014 on the occasion of his 75th birthday
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG: Deutsche Bahn appoints Professor Udo Steiner as ombudsman . Press release from January 28, 2008
- ^ [1] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Udo Steiner to the phantom gate. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steiner, Udo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, judge of the Federal Constitutional Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |