Wolfgang Schlick

Wolfgang Schlick (born March 29, 1950 in Steinwend ) is a German lawyer. From July 2009 to June 2015 he was Vice President of the Federal Supreme Court .

Schlick grew up in Edesheim and, after completing his legal training, joined the justice service of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1978 . After working as a probationary judge at the Ludwigshafen District Court , the Frankenthal and Kaiserslautern regional courts and the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice, he was appointed judge at the Kaiserslautern regional court in 1982. From there he was seconded to the Federal Court of Justice as a research assistant from 1983 to 1985.

After being appointed judge at the Higher Regional Court at the Palatinate Higher Regional Court in Zweibrücken in 1986, he was seconded to the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice until 1994, interrupted by several brief secondments to the Thuringian Ministry of Justice.

Schlick was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice in 1994. Since then he has been a member of the III. Civil Senate , which is responsible, among other things, for the law of official liability , public compensation law as well as for the law of contracts and brokerage . He was also assigned to the Senate for Legal Matters from 2001 to 2003 . In 2003 he was appointed presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice and took over the chairmanship of the III. Civil Senate and in the Senate for Notary Matters.

Schlick is the author of comments on neighboring law in Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate .

Effective July 1, 2009, Schlick was appointed Vice-President of the Federal Court of Justice as the successor to Gerda Müller , who was retiring. He retired on July 31, 2015.

literature

• Walther Hadding , Ulrich Herrmann , Achim Krämer: Festschrift for Wolfgang Schlick . Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-452-28561-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Federal Court of Justice , June 30, 2009
2. ↑ Press release of the Federal Court of Justice , July 27, 2015