Wolfgang Schomburg

Wolfgang Schomburg (born April 9, 1948 in Berlin-Spandau ) is a German lawyer and was the first German judge at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague from November 2001 to November 2008 . He was also a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha , Tanzania .

Life

Wolfgang Schomburg studied law at the Free University of Berlin , where he passed his first state examination in 1971 . The second state examination followed in 1974.

First he worked as a public prosecutor and later as a judge in Berlin. During this time he was u. a. also delegated to the Bundestag in Bonn and member of the Federal Prosecutor's Office . Schomburg was State Secretary of Justice in Berlin between 1989 and 1991 , after which he worked as a lawyer from 1991 to 1995 . From 1995 to 2001 he was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe . In March 2009 Schomburg was awarded the Great Cross of Merit.

He is a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations .

Wolfgang Schomburg has been of counsel for the Munich law firm Ufer since 2009 and has also been an honorary professor of law at Durham University (UK), where he has been teaching international legal assistance in criminal matters since then. In 2013 he was awarded the title of "Doctor of Civil Law" hc. In 2018 he is one of several lawyers who are working for the former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont in the extradition proceedings before the OLG Schleswig .

literature

Caroline Fetscher : The German . In: Die Zeit , No. 10/2002.

Web links

Literature by and about Wolfgang Schomburg in the catalog of the German National Library
CV - at Ufer-Knauer Rechtsanwälte
CV - at the ICTY, 2009 ( Memento from May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Announcement of the awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from April 1, 2009, published on bundespraesident.de ( Memento from May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), official announcement in the Federal Gazette .
↑ DGVN Presidium , accessed on March 30, 2018.
↑ qu / jj (rtr, dpa, afp, Spiegel online): No veto against Puigdemont extradition? In: Deutsche Welle. March 30, 2018, accessed March 30, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schomburg, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German judge
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Announcement of the awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from April 1, 2009, published on bundespraesident.de ( Memento from May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), official announcement in the Federal Gazette .

[2] DGVN Presidium , accessed on March 30, 2018.

[3] qu / jj (rtr, dpa, afp, Spiegel online): No veto against Puigdemont extradition? In: Deutsche Welle. March 30, 2018, accessed March 30, 2018 .