Johannes Mendlik

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

Johannes Mendlik
President of the Court of Rotterdam
In office
1994–2000
President of the Court of Breda
In office
1986–1994
Vice president of the Court of Breda
In office
1978–1986
Judge of the Court of Breda
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 (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 from 1994 to 2000. During his presidency there he was involved in modernizing the court and founding the Council for the Judiciary.[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 and his wife, the sculptor Julie Mijnssen. He married to Christine van Heuven. Their daughter Julia Mendlik was president of the Rechtbank Midden-Nederland 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 Dutch). 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 Dutch). 1 May 1997. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  4. death announcement, NRC Handelsblad, 19 November 2022
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