Hans-Joachim Jentsch
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Hans-Joachim Jentsch | |
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| Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany | |
| In office 3 May 1996 – 28 September 2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 September 1937 |
| Died | 28 March 2021 (aged 83) |
Hans-Joachim Jentsch (September 20, 1937 – March 28, 2021)[1] was a German lawyer and politician (CDU). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 1982, mayor of Wiesbaden – the capital of Hesse – from 1982 to 1985, a member of the Landtag of Hesse from 1987 to 1990, minister of justice in Thuringia from 1990 to 1994, and a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court from 1996 to 2005.
After passing the Second State Examination in 1966, Jentsch received his doctorate in Marburg with a thesis titled Die Beurteilung summarischer Exekutionen durch das Völkerrecht. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Wiesbaden. In 1977, he was also appointed as a notary public. Both licenses were suspended during his activities as mayor, minister and constitutional judge.
Hans-Joachim Jentsch was married, had an adult daughter and last lived in Wiesbaden. He died in March 2021 at the age of 83.[2]
Member of Parliament
Jentsch was a member of the German Bundestag from December 14, 1976, to September 8, 1982. He belonged to the Landtag of Hesse in its 12th legislative period. He succeeded Otti Geschka, who had been appointed state secretary, in the state parliament on April 27, 1987, but resigned his seat on November 19, 1990, to take up his ministerial post in the Thuringian state government.
Public offices
In 1982, Jentsch was elected mayor of Wiesbaden by the city council. After the 1985 Hessian municipal elections, he was prematurely recalled from office by the city council due to a change in majority.
After German reunification, Jentsch joined the first state government of the restored state of Thuringia on November 8, 1990, as Thuringia's Minister of Justice. From June 18, 1991, to February 11, 1992, his portfolio bore the name "Thuringian Ministry of Justice, Federal and European Affairs." On November 30, 1994, Jentsch resigned from the state government as a result of the formation of a new government following the 1994 state elections. From 1995 to 1996, Jentsch served as a member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court.
From October 1994, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In September 2004, the Thuringian Minister of Culture appointed him honorary professor.
