Kay Nehm (born 4 May 1941 in

Flensburg Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...

) is a German lawyer. He served as

Attorney General of Germany The Public Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice (german: Generalbundesanwalt or ''Generalbundesanwältin beim Bundesgerichtshof'' (GBA), lit.: "General Federal Attorney at the Federal Court of Justice") is the federal prosecutor of G ...

from 7 February 1994 until 31 May 2006. Nehm studied law at LMU, the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

and the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

. He was appointed a federal judge at the

Federal Court of Justice The Federal Court of Justice (german: Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) is the highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdiction (''ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit'') in Germany, founded in 1950. It has its seat in Karlsruhe with two panels being situat ...

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 The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercia ...

. 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 Alexander Dobrindt (born 7 June 1970) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU). Between 2013 and 2017, he served as Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the government of Chancellor Angela Mer ...

to serve on the German government’s Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving.Member of the Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving

Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (german: Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr, ), abbreviated BMDV, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its main office is located in Berlin, while the majority ...

, press release of 30 September 2016.

Publications

* ''Straflose Straftaten? Zur Rettung verfassungswidriger Strafgesetze durch Absehen von Strafe'' (Vortrag vom 17. February 1997), Heidelberg 1999. * ''Die Zuständigkeit des Generalbundesanwalts für die Verfolgung extremistischer Einzeltäter'' (Vortrag vom 8. Mai 2001), München 2002. * ''Das nachrichtendienstliche Trennungsgebot und die neue Sicherheitsarchitektur'', in: NJW 2004, S. 3289 bis 3295.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nehm, Kay 1941 births Living people People from Flensburg People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein Public Prosecutors General of Germany Jurists from Schleswig-Holstein