Volker Lessing

Volker Lessing (born May 26, 1945 in Roßla ) is a German lawyer and non-fiction author, honorary professor at the legal faculty of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover and former President of the Hanover District Court .

Live and act

Born in East Germany while his family fled , Volker Lessing grew up in the Weser Uplands . In Holzminden he graduated from high school at the " boys' high school" and then did his military service in the armed forces for two years . He then studied law at the University of Göttingen , passed his first state examination in Celle in 1971 and then did his doctorate, again in Göttingen , on the subject of price gouging as a problem of white-collar crime ... on the development and significance of the prohibition of price increases in accordance with Section 2a of the Economic Criminal Law .

The Referendariat to prepare its official career underwent Volker Lessing in the district of the Oberlandesgericht Celle and closed 1975 in Hannover to the second state examination.

Now employed as an official of the Lower Saxony judiciary , Volker Lessing worked at the Hanover District Court, then at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice , again at the Hanover District Court, then at the Lower Saxony University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice , again at the Ministry of Justice and finally again at the Hanover District Court; here Volker Lessing rose to president until 1999. In 2002 Volker Lessing, who wrote "numerous scientific publications " and was relieved of his duties by his Vice President Dieter Höbbel for six years , was also appointed honorary professor at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover.

During his time as President of the District Court, Volker Lessing pushed through new structures and work processes in the organization, even against the resistance of his colleagues.

Lessing is married and has two sons. The couple are involved in the Kleine Herzen association , which wants to set up a parent-child room at the Hannover Medical School (MHH), in which children as patients and their families can bridge the often long waiting time for donor organs .

After Lessing resigned from teaching at the University of Hanover and retired in 2010 , he published his illustrated work “District Court Hanover. A reading book with pictures ”, and in which, in addition to a short autobiography , other biographies are outlined.

Fonts (selection)

• Volker Lessing: Price gouging as a problem of white collar crime. The development and today's significance of the prohibition of excessive price increases according to § 2a WiStG , dissertation 1973 at the Law Faculty of the University of Göttingen, 1972
• Volker Lessing (text), Nadine Hilbrich (design): Hanover District Court. A reading book with pictures , 1st edition 2014, Soest, Westphalia: Tertulla-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815602-4-4

Media coverage (selection)

• Hans-Peter Wiechers: Volker Lessing / Der Paradiesvogel / The President of the District Court, Volker Lessing, is retiring. Now he wants to write a book about his former workplace - and dedicate himself to genealogy , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from June 15, 2010; last accessed online on November 21, 2014
• Michael Zgoll: Treasures, Punishments, Reign of Terror / The former President of the District Court has written a book - about the legal history in Hanover and his place of work , in: HAZ of November 29, 2014, p. 22

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Volker Lessing: President of the District Court Prof. Dr. Volker Lessing (1999 to 2010) , in: Volker Lessing (text), Nadine Hilbrich (design): Amtsgericht Hannover ... (see literature), p. 113
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Volker Lessing (text), Nadine Hilbrich (design): Hanover District Court ... (see literature), short autobiography on the spine
3. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans-Peter Wiechers: Volker Lessing / Der Paradiesvogel ... (see under the section media coverage )
5. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
6. ↑ See, for example, the table of contents of the book