Kay Nehm

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Kay Nehm
Attorney General of Germany
In office
7 February 1994 31 May 2006
Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Gerhard Schröder
Angela Merkel
Preceded by Alexander von Stahl
Succeeded by Monika Harms
Personal details
Born (1941-05-04) 4 May 1941 (age 79)
Flensburg, Germany
Alma mater University of Kiel
University of Freiburg
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Kay Nehm (born 4 May 1941 in Flensburg) is a German lawyer. He served as Attorney General of Germany from 7 February 1994 until 31 May 2006. [1]

Nehm studied law at LMU, the University of Freiburg and the University of Kiel. He was appointed a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice in 1991. As an Attorney General, he was widely regarded as having sometimes taken politically unpopular but legally stringent decisions. During his time in office, he investigated the German-based perpetrators of the September 11 attacks. [2]

Since 2014, Nehm has been serving as president of the Deutscher Verkehrsgerichtstag. In 2016, he was appointed by Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt to serve on the German government’s Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving. [3]

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References

  1. http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/kay-nehm-der-jurist-mit-der-bilderbuchkarriere-519928.html
  2. Douglas Frantz and Desmond Butler (August 30, 2002), Sept. 11 Attack Planned in '99, Germans Learn New York Times .
  3. Member of the Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving Archived 2016-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, press release of 30 September 2016.
Legal offices
Preceded by
Alexander von Stahl
Attorney General of Germany
1994-2006
Succeeded by
Monika Harms