Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig
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	(1941-10-08) 8 October 1941 (age 82) 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.

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