Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig | |
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.JPG) Schmidt-Jortzig in 2015 | |
| Federal Minister of Justice | |
| In office 17 January 1996 – 26 October 1998 | |
| Chancellor | Helmut Kohl |
| Preceded by | Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger |
| Succeeded by | Herta Däubler-Gmelin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 October 1941 Berlin, Germany |
| Political party | Free Democratic |
| Spouse |
Marion von Arnim (m. 1968) |
| Alma mater | University of Hannover |
| Profession | Jurist |
| Website | www.uni-kiel.de/oeffrecht/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 Federal Minister of Justice in the Fifth Kohl cabinet 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 a professor of public law at the University of Kiel and joined the Free Democratic Party.
In the 1994 German federal election, he earned a seat in the Bundestag, and in 1996, he succeeded Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany.