Preceded by Alexander von Stahl Succeeded by Monika Harms | Name Kay Nehm | |
Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Gerhard Schroder
Angela Merkel Born 4 May 1941 (age 82)
Flensburg, Germany ( 1941-05-04 ) Alma mater University of Kiel
University of Freiburg
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Education Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, University of Kiel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Kay Nehm (born 4 May 1941 in Flensburg) is a German lawyer. He served as Attorney General of Germany from 7 February 1994 until 31 May 2006.
Nehm studied law at LMU, the University of Freiburg and the University of Kiel. He was appointed a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice 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.
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 to serve on the German government’s Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving.