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Prof. Dr. Henning Radtke

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Henning Radtke

Justice of the First Senate

Born in Lübeck in 1962

Two children

until 1980Attended school in Lübeck and Kassel
1981-1983Military service
1983-1987Studied law at Georg August-University (Göttingen)
1987First State Examination in Law
1992Second State Examination in Law
1993Dr. iur., Georg August University (Göttingen);
Doctoral thesis: “Zur Systematik des Strafklageverbrauchs verfahrenserledigender Entscheidungen im Strafprozess” (“The structure of the ne bis in idem principle in the context of procedural decisions terminating criminal proceedings”)
1997Habilitation, Georg August University (Göttingen);
Professorial thesis: “Die Dogmatik der Brandstiftungsdelikte – zugleich ein Beitrag zur Lehre von den gemeingefährlichen Delikten” (“The system of arson offences – a contribution to the legal theory of crimes endangering the general public”)
1998-1999Interim professor, Chair in Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure, Criminal Justice and Criminology at Saarland University (Saarbrücken)
1999-2000Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and related fields at Saarland University (Saarbrücken)
2000-2002Judge in the Criminal Division (Strafsenat) of the Saarland Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht)
2000-2002Vice-Dean of the Law Department of the Faculty of Law and Economics at Saarland University (Saarbrücken)
2002-2005Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and Philosophy of Law at Philipp University (Marburg)
2003-2004Dean of Academic Affairs of the Department of Law at Philipp University (Marburg)
2004-2005Dean of the Department of Law at Philipp University (Marburg)
2005-2012Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and International Criminal Law at Leibniz University (Hanover)
2008-2012Judge of the Celle Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) temporarily seconded to the Hanover Regional Court (Landgericht)
2009-2011Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Leibniz University (Hanover)
2009-2013President of the German Convention of Law Faculties (Deutscher Juristen-Fakultätentag)
2010 and 2011Declined professorships in Bayreuth and Graz
2012Appointed judge in the First Criminal Division (1. Strafsenat) at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)
since 2013Honorary professor at the Faculty of Law of Leibniz University (Hanover)
since July 2018Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court