Ulrich Schellenberg

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Lawyer and notary Ulrich Schellenberg

Ulrich Schellenberg (born March 27, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German lawyer and notary . From 2015 to February 2019, he was President of the German Lawyers' Association .

Career

Schellenberg graduated from the Leibniz-Gymnasium in Rottweil in 1979 and then studied law at the University of Freiburg from 1979 to 1983 . After passing the first state examination, he worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. In 1987 he moved to Berlin and did his legal clerkship a. a. at the higher court . After the second state examination in 1989, he was admitted to the bar. In 1995 he was appointed notary by the Berlin Chamber of Notaries. In 2007 he became a specialist lawyer for inheritance law , a year later he became a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law . Schellenberg has been a member of the Advisory Board East of Deutsche Bank AG since 2009.

In 1992 Schellenberg was elected to the board of the Berlin Lawyers' Association, from 1994 he was deputy chairman and from 2003 to 2015 chairman. He has been a member of the board of the German Lawyers' Association (DAV) since 1999 and was its vice-president from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2015. He was Vice President of the Federal Association of Liberal Professions . From June 2015 to February 2019 he was President of the German Lawyers' Association. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and the Presidium.

During his time as chairman of the Berlin Lawyers' Association, he campaigned, among other things, to bring the law closer to people and to open up paths to justice for them.

In 2004, Schellenberg initiated the project “Lawyers go to schools” with the DAV. To the sense of justice and to promote the awareness standard currently informed about 30 lawyers in lessons young people on current legal issues.

In 2006, he founded a youth counseling center in the Gesundbrunnen district of Berlin to give socially disadvantaged young people free counseling . The team of consultants includes around 30 lawyers, and around 250 requests for advice are received each year.

In 2008 he started a free legal advice center for recipients of unemployment benefit II in the Berlin Lawyers' Association .

During his time as chairman of the Berlin Lawyers' Association, Schellenberg also campaigned for higher monetary compensation for people wrongly imprisoned. Increasing the compensation was also a concern of his during his time as President of the German Lawyers' Association.

Positions

Schellenberg sees the task of the legal profession in explaining professionally what the rule of law stands for. He sees the legal profession as a "fine measuring device" for dangers that threaten the rule of law as well as basic and human rights.

In his function as a lawyer, Schellenberg raised in January 2009, among others, Gerhart R. Baum , former Minister of the Interior . D, successful constitutional complaint against the BKA law before the Federal Constitutional Court . Schellenberg saw the lawyers' professional secrecy violated.

Schellenberg criticized the Federal Government's plans to allow the Bundeswehr to be deployed inside the country under certain conditions after the terrorist attacks in Bavaria in the summer of 2016.

In 2017, under the presidency of Ulrich Schellenberg, the German Lawyers' Association expressed solidarity with the Turkish legal profession. He signed a friendship agreement with the Union of the Turkish Bar Association.

When a lawyer was threatened in Baden-Württemberg, Schellenberg campaigned for Engin Sanli. His statement at the time: "When lawyers represent whoever it is, they work for social peace and not against it."

In the course of the reform of the BND law , Schellenberg warned against mass surveillance without cause. In this context, he also turned against a test run for face recognition at Berlin's Südkreuz train station.

During his presidency, the DAV undertook a push to fundamentally reorganize professional law on the basis of a legislative proposal by Prof. Martin Henssler .

Schellenberg repeatedly dealt critically with the AfD, in particular the then chairman of the legal committee of the German Bundestag Stephan Brandner . On the 69th German Lawyers 'Day in Mannheim, the FAZ wrote in its issue on June 8, 2018, that the President of the German Lawyers' Association, Ulrich Schellenberg, had sharply criticized AfD legal politician Stephan Brandner in his opening speech and accused him of wanting to delegitimize the rule of law.

At the New Year's Reception of the Lawyers' Association in January 2019, he criticized a draft law by the AfD to tighten the penalties for recidivists. Twitter and Legal Tribune Online (LTO) then spoke of a "scandal".

In February 2019, Schellenberg surprisingly announced his resignation as DAV President.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , accessed on November 17, 2019
  2. ^ Profile of Ulrich Schellenberg on the website of the German Lawyers' Association [2] , accessed on November 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ [3] , lawyer gazette accessed on February 13, 2020
  4. ↑ [4] , Spiegel.de accessed on February 14, 2020
  5. ^ [5] , lawyer gazette accessed on February 13, 2020
  6. ↑ [6] , Juve accessed on February 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ [7] , Tagesspiegel accessed on February 13, 2020.
  8. ↑ [8] , Ito accessed on February 14, 2020
  9. ↑ [9] , Spiegel accessed on February 14, 2020
  10. ↑ [10] , image accessed on February 13, 2020
  11. ↑ [11] , Youtube accessed on February 14, 2020.
  12. ↑ [12] , lawyer gazette accessed on February 12, 2020
  13. ↑ (Youtube from minute 10:26)
  14. ↑ https://anwaltsblatt.anwaltverein.de/de/news/gemeinsam-rechtspektiven-gestalten , Anwaltsblatt accessed on February 13, 2020
  15. ↑ Twitter accessed February 13, 2020
  16. ^ [13] Lawyer Gazette, accessed on February 14, 2020
  17. ↑ [14] lto accessed on February 14, 2020
  18. ↑ [15] lto accessed on February 14, 2020
  19. ↑ [16] Spiegel accessed on February 14, 2020
  20. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.
  21. ↑ [17] Berlin.de accessed on February 14, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Schellenberg, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and notary
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart