Zeitzeuge

Dr. Gerd-Heinrich Kemper

Berlin, Berlin
* 1938
† 2024

Protect citizens from the state administration’s interference with their basic rights!

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  • deutsche Einheit
  • westdeutsche Zeitzeugen
  • Umbruchserfahrungen seit 1989/90
  • verstorbene Zeitzeugen
Sprache
  • Englisch
  • Französisch

Biographical information

1938 Born
1967 Government assessor at the Federal Ministry of the Interior
1973 Appointed Senate council under Berlin’s Senator of Justice
1976–1981 Head of division at the Berlin Senate Department of Justice
1981 Judge at the Federal Administrative Court
1996 Appointed president of the Higher Administrative Court of Saxony-Anhalt
2000 Elected president of the State Constitutional Court of Saxony-Anhalt
2004 Retirement

Dr Gerd-Heinrich Kemper sadly passed away on 12 March 2024.

Profile

Gerd-Heinrich Kemper witnessed the GDR’s transition from a Communist regime to a constitutional democracy first-hand during his eleven years of service in former East Germany. He was appointed president of the Higher Administrative Court in 1996, and from 2000 onward also the president of the State Constitutional Court in Saxony-Anhalt. In this position, he was responsible for, among other things, appointing judges and rebuilding the judicial system. The graduated lawyer had been a senior government official at the West German Ministry of the Interior from 1972 onward, and subsequently a Senate councillor to the Berlin Senator of Justice up until 1981. Between 1981 and 1996 Kemper was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court before taking up the position in Saxony-Anhalt. Since his retirement, he has frequently given presentations on the transformation of the ex-socialist European states.