Johannes Mendlik

Johannes Mendlik (19 October 1935 – 16 November 2022) was a Dutch judge.

Johannes Mendlik
President of the Court of Rotterdam [nl]
In office
1994–2000
President of the Court of Breda [nl]
In office
1986–1994
Vice president of the Court of Breda [nl]
In office
1978–1986
Judge of the Court of Breda [nl]
In office
1970–1978
Personal details
Born(1935-10-19)19 October 1935
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died16 November 2022(2022-11-16) (aged 87)
Bloemendaal, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materLeiden University

Mendlik studied law at Leiden University from 1955 to 1961. After his studies, he became a judicial officer in training in 1961 at the Court of Breda [nl] (nowadays merged into the Court of Zeeland-West-Brabant), where he held several other positions. He became a judge in 1970. In 1978 he became vice president of the court and from 1986 to 1994 he served as president. Afterwards he was president of the Court of Rotterdam [nl] from 1994 to 2000. During his presidency there he was involved in modernizing the court and founding the Council for the Judiciary [nl].[1][2]

Mendlik was an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau. When he was president of the Rotterdam court, he refused to be appointed knight in the same order, because he considered it inappropriate.[3]

Mendlik was a grandson of the Hungarian-Dutch painter Oszkár Mendlik [nl] and his wife, the sculptor Julie Mijnssen [nl]. He married to Christine van Heuven. Their daughter Julia Mendlik [nl] was president of the Rechtbank Midden-Nederland [nl] from 2016 to 2021 and president of the Rotterdam Court, like her father, since 2022.

Mendlik died in Bloemendaal on 16 November 2022, at the age of 87.[4]

References

  1. "Rechter: Wij gaan echt niet aan leiband van de politiek lopen". Trouw (in Nederlands). 7 November 2000. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  2. Knapen, Michel (1 February 2020). "Recepten voor snellere rechtszaken". Mr. (2): 20-25.
  3. "President van rechtbank weigert lintje". NRC Handelsblad (in Nederlands). 1 May 1997. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  4. death announcement, NRC Handelsblad, 19 November 2022