Kay Nehm
Kay Nehm | |
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Attorney General of Germany | |
In office 7 February 1994 – 31 May 2006 | |
Chancellor | Helmut Kohl Gerhard Schröder Angela Merkel |
Preceded by | Alexander von Stahl |
Succeeded by | Monika Harms |
Personal details | |
Born | Flensburg,Germany | 4 May 1941
Alma mater | University of Kiel University of Freiburg Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Kay Nehm(born 4 May 1941 inFlensburg) is a German lawyer. He served asAttorney General of Germanyfrom 7 February 1994 until 31 May 2006.[1]
Nehm studied law atLMU,theUniversity of Freiburgand theUniversity of Kiel.He was appointed a federal judge at theFederal Court of Justicein 1991. As an Attorney General, he was widely regarded as having sometimes taken politically unpopular but legally stringent decisions. During his time in office, he investigated the German-based perpetrators of theSeptember 11 attacks.[2]
Since 2014, Nehm has been serving as president of theDeutscher Verkehrsgerichtstag.In 2016, he was appointed byFederal Minister of Transport and Digital InfrastructureAlexander Dobrindtto serve on the German government’s Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving.[3]
Publications
[edit]- Straflose Straftaten? Zur Rettung verfassungswidriger Strafgesetze durch Absehen von Strafe(Vortrag vom 17. February 1997), Heidelberg 1999.ISBN3-8114-9599-2
- Die Zuständigkeit des Generalbundesanwalts für die Verfolgung extremistischer Einzeltäter(Vortrag vom 8. Mai 2001), München 2002.ISBN3-406-48632-0
- Das nachrichtendienstliche Trennungsgebot und die neue Sicherheitsarchitektur,in:NJW2004, S. 3289 bis 3295.
References
[edit]- ^"Der Jurist mit der Bilderbuchkarriere".
- ^Douglas Frantz and Desmond Butler (August 30, 2002),Sept. 11 Attack Planned in '99, Germans LearnNew York Times.
- ^Member of the Ethics Commission on Autonomous DrivingArchived2016-09-30 at theWayback MachineFederal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure,press release of 30 September 2016.