Prof. Dr. Ingo Richter
Prof. Dr. Ingo Richter is president of the Irmgard Coninx Foundation.
Biography
- born 1938, married to Sabine Richter-Ellermann, two children
- studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Munich, Hamburg and Paris
- 1965
Doctorate in Law, Hamburg University - 1966
Docteur de l'Université de Paris - 1967-1979
Head of the department of law and administration at the Max-Planck-Institute for Educational Research, Berlin - 1975-1979
Professor of Law at the Free University of Berlin - 1979-1993
Professor of Public Law at the University of HamburgTaught at the universities of Bordeaux, Rostock, Hastings and Chicago - Taught at the universities of Bordeaux, Rostock, Hastings and Chicago
- 1993-2002
Chairman and Head of Deutsches Jugend Institut in Munich - 1999-2001
Chairman of the 11th Government Commission on Children and Youth - since 1977
Editor of the educational – law journal "Recht der Jugend und des Bildungswesens"
Areas of research include
- constitutional and administrative law
- educational politics and law, with a particular focus on school law and the law of continuing education
- social policy and law, with a particular focus on children and youth law
- labour law, with a particular focus on youth in training and work

