Der einzelne Akteur im demokratischen Rechtsstaat. Symposium zum 80. Geburtstag von Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig.

»Ein durchweg lesenswerter Band, der Edzard Schmidt-Jortzigs Wirken angemessen ehrt.« Prof. Dr. Hans-Günter Henneke, in: Der Landkreis, 1-2/2023

Utz Schliesky studied law at Kiel University. There he subsequently worked as a research assistant to former Federal Minister Prof. Dr. Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig, under whose supervision he received his doctoral degree in 1995 and his habilitation in 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he was First Assistant Director and Deputy Chief Executive of the German County Association (Deutscher Landkreistag) in Berlin and Brussels. From 2005 to 2009, he was Head of the Department for Administrative Modernization in the State Ministry of Finance of Schleswig-Holstein. Since 2009, he has been Director of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein and, since 2007, Member of the Board of the Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at Kiel University.

Sönke E. Schulz is chief executive of the County Association (Landkreistag) of Schleswig-Holstein. Previously, he worked as a consultant for the public administration in Berlin and, as managing research assistant at the Lorenz-von-Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences, was responsible for numerous projects on administrative modernization and the digitalization of public government. He studied law and political science, passed both state examinations in law and received his doctorate with a thesis on constitutional law. He received his habilitation from the Faculty of Law at Kiel University with the thesis »Die Verwaltungsaufgabe – staatliche Aufgabenwahrnehmung im Wandel und deren organisationsrechtliche Abbildung« (translation: »The administrative task - the state's execution of tasks in change and their depiction in organizational law«).