Carl-August Fleischhauer was a German lawyer. He was from 1962 held various positions in the Foreign Office before 1983 as Under Secretary-General took over as Head of Legal Affairs of the United Nations. From 1994 to 2003 he worked as a judge at the International Court of Justice.
Education
Carl-August Fleischhauer studied law at Heidelberg University and the Universities of Grenoble, Paris and from 1954 to 1955 with a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Chicago. He graduated in 1954 in Heidelberg, and the first six years later in Stuttgart, the second state examination and was then at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law as an active speaker.
Career
Carl-August Fleischhauer headed from 1983 to 1994 as Assistant Secretary-General of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations. During this time he was instrumental in the drafting of mandates and other documents under the various missions of the United Nations peacekeeping forces, so for ONUCA missions in El Salvador, UNTAG in Namibia, Mozambique and ONUMOZ UNTAC in Cambodia. Moreover, the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was based on a report that had emerged under the leadership of Carl-August Fleischhauer.