Wilderich Fehrmann

Wilderich Fehrmann (born September 12, 1928 in Münster ; † June 12, 2008 in Juist ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Fehrmann was born as the son of the Prussian district administrator and later government director Friedrich Fehrmann and his wife Emilie, b. Bäumer, born. After his father's impeachment, the von Meppen family moved back to their hometown of Münster in Westphalia, where he grew up as the youngest of four children (Milly, Margund and Friedrich). As a member of the Münster volunteer fire brigade and as a flak helper , his youth were shaped by the Second World War and the bombing raids on his hometown, which also killed his parents' house. In 1949 he graduated from high school Paulinum , where he was elected senior.

He completed his studies in law and political science in Münster and Innsbruck in 1958 with the second state examination and a doctorate on a commercial law topic with Hefermehl at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. During his studies, he was involved in the Catholic student association KStV Tuiskonia-Monasteria in the KV , to which his father and brother Friedrich already belonged and which he, as an old man, with the sister organization K.St.V. Marcomannia brought together. The Marcomannia honored him with his appointment as an honorary philistine.

He started his first job at the legal office of the city of Paderborn, which he later headed and whose highlights included providing legal support for the establishment and expansion of Nixdorf Computer AG . In 1963 he returned to Münster as an administrative judge and in 1970 was appointed to the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia .

There he became chairman of the newly founded 15th Senate in 1974, which was primarily concerned with local and university law and which he headed until his retirement on September 30, 1993. There he shaped the jurisprudence in this area, especially in local constitutional law and, not least, made an outstanding contribution to an entire generation of administrative lawyers; Several court presidents and federal judges emerged from his Senate, including the later President of the Federal Administrative Court , Everhardt Franßen, and the later President of the Federal Constitutional Court , Hans-Jürgen Papier, who served in his Senate for many years. In 1975 he was promoted to Vice-President of the OVG Münster and a permanent deputy member of the Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia . He also resigned from these offices after reaching retirement age in 1993.

Act

At the end of the 1980s, together with the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia and Boorbeck-Verlag, he launched the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative papers ; together with the President of the OLG Hamm, he acted as their founding editor; the editor is still based at the OVG Münster to this day.

Together with Bernhard Großfeld , with whom he was also connected through other associations, he was for many years chairman of the German-Dutch Lawyers Association and also maintained an exchange with the constitutional part of the Hoge Raad , the highest court in the Netherlands.

In the early 1990s, the President of the Federal Republic, represented by State Minister of Justice Rolf Krumsiek , awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his extraordinary services to public law and administrative jurisdiction in Germany .

In addition to the circle of friends he co-founded in 1966, he was also actively involved in various brotherhoods and clubs of Westphalian life.

Web links

• Obituary for justiz.nrw.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Werner Schulze Buschoffh: High legal level. Kb Dr. Wilderich Fehrmann . In: Academic monthly sheets , published by the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (KV), ISSN  0002-3000 , 10/2008, p. 250 (PDF file, 5.3MB)