Prof. Dr. Hans-Ludwig Schreiber – Curriculum Vitae

Personal information
Ludwig Schreiber
born 10.05.1933 in Mönchengladbach
German nationality

Education

• 1951
  Abitur [high school leaving examination] at the Ratsgymnasium in Hanover
• 1951 to 1957
  Studies in Law and Philosophy in Bonn and Munich
• 1956
  First State Law Examination
• 1962
  Second State Law Examination
• 1965
  Graduation to Dr. jur. in Bonn (summa cum laude)
• 1970
  Habilitation in Bonn for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Legal Philosophy
• 1992
  Granted an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Law of the University of Osnabrück
• 1999
  Granted an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Medicine of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
• 1999
  Granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Inchon/Korea

Professional career

• 1957 to 1962
  research assistant at the University of Bonn, legal traineeship in Bonn and Hanover
• 1962 to 1966
  Judge in Lower Saxony, most recently advisor in the Ministry of Law of Lower Saxony
• 1967 to 1970
  Research assistant at the Faculty of Law in Bonn
• 1971
  Wissenschaftlicher Rat [civil servant lecturer] and professor in Bonn for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Legal Philosophy; accepted professorship for Criminal Law and General Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August-University Göttingen whilst declining offers in Kiel and Augsburg
• 1973, 1977, 1981
  Declined professorships in Hanover, Bielefeld, Mannheim and Freiburg
• 1981 bis 1983
  Vice President of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
• 1987 bis 1990
  Secretary of State in the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony
• since 1990
  Director of the Institute for Medical Law at the Law Department of Göttingen
• 1989 to 1994
  Chair of the board of trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation
• 1990 to 1993
  Chair of the University Structure Commission in Saxony
• 1991 to 1992
  Founding Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg
• 1992 to 1998
  President of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
• 1994 to 1999
  Vice Chair of the board of trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation