Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig

Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig (born 8 October 1941) is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair for public law at the University of Kiel. A member of the Free Democratic Party, he served as German Federal Minister of Justice in the Cabinet Kohl V between 1996 and 1998.

Born in Berlin, Schmidt-Jortzig was raised in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony. He studied law and received his first Staatsexamen in 1966, and the second in 1969. In 1984 he became professor of public law at the University of Kiel and also joined the Free Democratic Party.

In the German federal election, 1994 he earned a seat in the Bundestag, and in 1996 he succeeded Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany.

External links

• Biography at the German Bundestag

Secretaries and Ministers of Justice of Germany
German Empire (1871–1919)	Heinrich Friedberg Hermann von Schelling Otto von Oehlschläger Robert Bosse Eduard Hanauer Rudolf Arnold Nieberding Hermann Lisco Paul von Krause
Weimar Republic (1919–1932)	Otto Landsberg Eugen Schiffer Andreas Blunck Eugen Schiffer Gustav Radbruch Rudolf Heinze Gustav Radbruch Erich Emminger Curt Joël Josef Frenken Hans Luther Wilhelm Marx Johannes Bell Oskar Hergt Erich Koch-Weser Theodor von Guérard Johann Viktor Bredt Curt Joël Franz Gürtner
Nazi Germany (1933–1945)	Franz Gürtner Franz Schlegelberger Otto Georg Thierack
German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)	Max Fechner Hilde Benjamin Kurt Wünsche Hans-Joachim Heusinger Kurt Wünsche Manfred Walther
Federal Republic of Germany (1949–)	Thomas Dehler Fritz Neumayer Hans-Joachim von Merkatz Fritz Schäffer Wolfgang Stammberger Ewald Bucher Karl Weber Richard Jaeger Gustav Heinemann Horst Ehmke Gerhard Jahn Hans-Jochen Vogel Jürgen Schmude Hans A. Engelhard Klaus Kinkel Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig Herta Däubler-Gmelin Brigitte Zypries Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger Heiko Maas