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 | |
Kay Nehm (born 4 May 1941 in
Attorney General of Germany from 7 February 1994 until 31 May 2006.[1]
Nehm studied law at
Federal Court of Justice in 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 the September 11 attacks.[2]
Since 2014, Nehm has been serving as president of the Deutscher Verkehrsgerichtstag. In 2016, he was appointed by
Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt to serve on the German government’s Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving.[3]
Publications
- Straflose Straftaten? Zur Rettung verfassungswidriger Strafgesetze durch Absehen von Strafe (Vortrag vom 17. February 1997), Heidelberg 1999. ISBN 3-8114-9599-2
- Die Zuständigkeit des Generalbundesanwalts für die Verfolgung extremistischer Einzeltäter (Vortrag vom 8. Mai 2001), München 2002. ISBN 3-406-48632-0
- Das nachrichtendienstliche Trennungsgebot und die neue Sicherheitsarchitektur, in: NJW2004, S. 3289 bis 3295.
References
- ^ "Der Jurist mit der Bilderbuchkarriere".
- New York Times.
- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, press release of 30 September 2016.