Wolfgang Zeh (lawyer)

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Wolfgang Zeh (born April 12, 1942 in Stuttgart ) is a German administrative scientist and was director of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2006 .

biography

Zeh spent part of his childhood in Dotternhausen , where his father worked in the cement works . In 1948 the family moved to Stuttgart, where Zeh completed his Abitur. From 1963 to 1967 he studied law in Tübingen and Kiel . After the first state examination in 1967 and the legal traineeship in Baden-Württemberg , Zeh passed the state examination in law in 1971 and was awarded a doctorate in 1972 at the University of Tübingen. iur. did his doctorate and habilitation in 1982 at the German University of Administrative Sciences (DHV) in Speyer , where he still teaches today.

He has been a member of the SPD for over 40 years . In 1971 he joined the administration of the German Bundestag in Bonn . Here he was, among others, as a speaker at the Secretariat of the Commission of Inquiry "constitutional reform" act as Head of the "parliamentary law", as head of department "Scientific Documentation" and "parliamentary services" and 1998 to 2002, head of the "Parliamentary services" .

From November 4, 2002 to April 30, 2006, Zeh was director at the German Bundestag. Towards the end of his term of office, Zeh surprised with a reform of the Bundestag administration put into effect on May 1, 2006 by Bundestag President Norbert Lammert , which took into account the political power play in the Bundestag in view of the grand coalition of 2005 by adding a fourth department to the existing three departments with the Title "Information and Documentation" was formed.

Zeh has become known through publications and numerous specialist articles in which he deals scientifically with parliament. From 1997 to 2002 he was an editorial member of the magazine for parliamentary questions (ZParl). He was also the representative of the Bundestag at the Federal Constitutional Court in the case of the NPD against the Bundestag, in which it was a matter of contesting previous federal assemblies.

Zeh is divorced and remarried since 2004. He is the father of the writer Juli Zeh . He lives in Dotternhausen in the Zollernalb district .

Works (selection)

  • Financial constitution and university autonomy. University funding in the field of tension between science, society and the state. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-428-02956-9 .
  • Parliamentarism. Historical roots - modern development . R. v. Deckers Verlag, Heidelberg 1978. (5th edition. 1991, ISBN 3-8226-2791-7 )
  • Will and effect of the law. R. v. Deckers Verlag, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-7685-0384-4 .
  • with Hans-Peter Schneider (Ed.): Parliamentary Law and Parliamentary Practice in the Federal Republic of Germany. Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011077-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Local / Dotternhausen / He worked behind the scenes of the German parliament . April 11, 2017 ( zak.de [accessed April 12, 2017]).
  2. ↑ White spot on the map of the Basic Law. In: FAZ . February 11, 2014, last accessed February 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ About Law and Literature. A conversation with Juli Zeh and Martin Mosebach , led by Britta Lange and Hermann Weber. In: Hermann Weber (Hrsg.): Literature, law and music. Conference at Nordkolleg Rendsburg from September 16 to 18, 2005. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8305-1339-1 , pp. 183-204 (195).

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personal data
SURNAME Toe, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart