Roman Herzog
Roman Herzog (German: [ˈʁoːman ˈhɛʁtsoːk] ; 5 April 1934 – 10 January 2017) was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as the president of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the first president to be elected after the reunification of Germany. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was the President of the court 1987–1994. Before his appointment as a judge he was a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.
Roman Herzog
- Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz
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- Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz
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10 January 2017 (aged 82)
Jagsthausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Christian Democratic Union (1970–2017)
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Early life and academic career[edit]
Roman Herzog was born in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany, in 1934 to a Protestant family.[1] His father was an archivist.[2] He studied law in Munich and passed his state law examination.[1] He completed his doctoral studies in 1958 with a dissertation on Basic Law and the European Convention on Human Rights.[2]
He worked as an assistant at the University of Munich until 1964, where he also passed his second juristic state exam. For his paper Die Wesensmerkmale der Staatsorganisation in rechtlicher und entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Sicht ("Characteristics of state organization from a juristic and developmental-historical viewpoint"), he was awarded the title of professor in 1964, and taught at the University of Munich until 1966. He then taught constitutional law and political science as a full professor at the Free University of Berlin.[3] It was during this period that he coedited a commentary of the Basic Law. In 1969, he accepted a chair of public law at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer, serving as university president in 1971–72.[1]
Personal life and death[edit]
Herzog's wife, Christiane Herzog, died on 19 June 2000. In 2001, he married Alexandra Freifrau von Berlichingen.[33]
He was a member of the Protestant Church in Germany.[1] He died on 10 January 2017 at the age of 82.[34]