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Prof. Dr. Henning Radtke
Justice of the First Senate
Born in Lübeck in 1962
Two children
until 1980 | Attended school in Lübeck and Kassel |
1981-1983 | Military service |
1983-1987 | Studied law at Georg August-University (Göttingen) |
1987 | First State Examination in Law |
1992 | Second State Examination in Law |
1993 | Dr. 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”) |
1997 | Habilitation, 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”) |
1998-1999 | Interim professor, Chair in Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure, Criminal Justice and Criminology at Saarland University (Saarbrücken) |
1999-2000 | Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and related fields at Saarland University (Saarbrücken) |
2000-2002 | Judge in the Criminal Division (Strafsenat) of the Saarland Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) |
2000-2002 | Vice-Dean of the Law Department of the Faculty of Law and Economics at Saarland University (Saarbrücken) |
2002-2005 | Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and Philosophy of Law at Philipp University (Marburg) |
2003-2004 | Dean of Academic Affairs of the Department of Law at Philipp University (Marburg) |
2004-2005 | Dean of the Department of Law at Philipp University (Marburg) |
2005-2012 | Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and International Criminal Law at Leibniz University (Hanover) |
2008-2012 | Judge of the Celle Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) temporarily seconded to the Hanover Regional Court (Landgericht) |
2009-2011 | Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Leibniz University (Hanover) |
2009-2013 | President of the German Convention of Law Faculties (Deutscher Juristen-Fakultätentag) |
2010 and 2011 | Declined professorships in Bayreuth and Graz |
2012 | Appointed judge in the First Criminal Division (1. Strafsenat) at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) |
since 2013 | Honorary professor at the Faculty of Law of Leibniz University (Hanover) |
since July 2018 | Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court |