Kay Nehm

{{Short description|German lawyer}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Kay Nehm | image = | caption = | office = Attorney General of Germany | chancellor = Helmut Kohl <br> Gerhard Schröder <br> Angela Merkel | term_start = 7 February 1994 | term_end = 31 May 2006 | predecessor = Alexander von Stahl | successor = Monika Harms | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|5|4|df=y}} | birth_place = Flensburg, Germany | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = Kiel University<br>University of Freiburg<br>LMU Munich | party = }} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/kay-nehm-der-jurist-mit-der-bilderbuchkarriere-519928.html|title = Der Jurist mit der Bilderbuchkarriere}}</ref>

Nehm studied law at LMU Munich, the University of Freiburg and Kiel University. 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.<ref>Douglas Frantz and Desmond Butler (August 30, 2002), [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/world/traces-of-terror-germany-sept-11-attack-planned-in-99-germans-learn.html Sept. 11 Attack Planned in '99, Germans Learn] ''New York Times''.</ref>

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.<ref>[http://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/Presse/ethik-kommission-mitglieder.pdf?__blob=publicationFile Member of the Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930152147/http://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/Presse/ethik-kommission-mitglieder.pdf?__blob=publicationFile |date=2016-09-30 }} Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, press release of 30 September 2016.</ref>

== Publications == * ''Straflose Straftaten? Zur Rettung verfassungswidriger Strafgesetze durch Absehen von Strafe'' (Vortrag vom 17. February 1997), Heidelberg 1999. {{ISBN|3-8114-9599-2}} * ''Die Zuständigkeit des Generalbundesanwalts für die Verfolgung extremistischer Einzeltäter'' (Vortrag vom 8. Mai 2001), München 2002. {{ISBN|3-406-48632-0}} * ''Das nachrichtendienstliche Trennungsgebot und die neue Sicherheitsarchitektur'', in: NJW 2004, S. 3289 bis 3295.

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