The legal scholar Prof. Dr Prof. h. c. Jürgen Taeger passed away on 18 January at the age of 70. From 1997 until his retirement in 2020, Taeger was a university lecturer for civil law, commercial and business law and legal informatics at the University of Oldenburg. His research and teaching focussed on commercial law and information law.

As a member of the founding board of directors, the legal scholar helped to establish the C3L - Centre for Lifelong Learning. From 2003, he was director of the "Centre for Distributed eLearning", which he co-founded and which was merged into the C3L in 2006. Until his retirement, he headed the part-time Master's degree programme in Information Law (LL.M.), which he initiated. "Jürgen Taeger played a major role in establishing the Centre for Lifelong Learning and an extremely successful degree programme," said Tim Zentner, Managing Director of the C3L. "His great commitment to the subject of information law and the students in every respect characterised him to the very end. We are losing a colleague and academic who was held in high esteem by all."

Taeger's research focussed on commercial and corporate law and various academic aspects of information law, including data protection law, internet law and legal issues relating to online trading and autonomous driving. In the field of data protection, Taeger has advised numerous medium-sized and large companies nationwide. For many years, he was a member of the Data Protection Advisory Board of German Railways and a member of the Expert Advisory Board on Employee Data Protection of the Federal Ministry of Labour. Taeger was co-editor of numerous specialist journals as well as a major commentary on the Federal Data Protection Act and author of numerous academic articles on data protection law. He was also a member of numerous organisations and advisory boards, such as the German Foundation for Law and Computing Science (DSRI), which he co-founded, and the advisory board of the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD). The legal scholar was a member of the Institute for Computing Science OFFIS and headed the Centre for Information Society Law (ZRI) at the University of Oldenburg.

Jürgen Taeger studied Law and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Hanover. He obtained his doctorate there in 1987 and habilitated in 1995 with a thesis on "Non-contractual liability for defective computer programmes". He has held guest professorships at Romanian universities. At the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, a C3L continuing education programme on data protection law was initiated through his mediation.