Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig

Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig
Schmidt-Jortzig in 2015
Federal Minister of Justice
In office
17 January 1996 – 26 October 1998
ChancellorHelmut Kohl
Preceded bySabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Succeeded byHerta Däubler-Gmelin
Personal details
Born (1941-10-08) 8 October 1941 (age 83)
Berlin, Germany
Political partyFree Democratic
Spouse
Marion von Arnim
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(m. 1968)​
Alma materUniversity of Hannover
ProfessionJurist
Websitewww.uni-kiel.de/oeffrecht/schmidt-jortzig/

Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig (born 8 October 1941) is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair for public law at the University of Kiel. A member of the Free Democratic Party, he served as Federal Minister of Justice in the Fifth Kohl cabinet between 1996 and 1998.

Born in Berlin, Schmidt-Jortzig was raised in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony. He studied law and received his first Staatsexamen in 1966, and the second in 1969. In 1984, he became a professor of public law at the University of Kiel and joined the Free Democratic Party.

In the 1994 German federal election, he earned a seat in the Bundestag, and in 1996, he succeeded Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany.


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