Christine Langenfeld

Christine Langenfeld (* 16 August 1962 as Christine Wagner in Luxembourg ) is a German legal scholar . She has been a judge in the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court since 2016 .

Career

Langenfeld is the daughter of the CDU politician and later Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate Carl-Ludwig Wagner . From 1980 to 1986 she studied law at the universities of Trier , Mainz and Dijon and passed her first state examination in Mainz . In 1986 and 1987 she worked as a research assistant at Eckart Klein's chair for public law and European law at the University of Mainz. From 1987 to 1988 she completed a doctoral scholarship as part of the state graduate support of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Her doctorate took place in 1989 with the topic Equal Treatment of Men and Women in European Community Law . In 1991 she passed the second state examination. Subsequently, Langenfeld worked as a research assistant at Georg Ress's chair for public law, European and international law at the Saarland University . In 1991 she became a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, where she stayed until the start of her post-doctoral scholarship from the DFG in 1997. The habilitation topic was integration and cultural identity of immigrant minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany. A study using the example of the general school system . For this work she was awarded the Augsburg Science Prize for Intercultural Studies in 2001. In 2000 she completed her habilitation at Saarland University for the subjects of German and foreign public law, European and international law .

Since October 2000 she has held a chair for public law at the University of Göttingen . From 2008 to 2016 she was a member of the Advisory Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration , of which she was the successor to Klaus J. Bade from July 1, 2012 to July 8, 2016. On July 8, 2016 Langenfeld has been approved by the Federal Council in the second senate of the Federal Constitutional Court elected and appointed as a judge on July 20. She followed Herbert Landau .

She is a member of the Council for Migration .

Langenfeld lives in Leipzig ; she is the wife of Harald Langenfeld , the chairman of the local savings bank , and mother of an adult daughter.

Publications

• Islamic Religious Education - Formal loyalty to the constitution is not enough. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). November 15, 2007, p. 12 , archived from the original on February 12, 2013 (reproduced on the website of Wir sind Kirche Deutschland ). 
• Religious Freedom - Danger or Help for Integration? (pdf, 51 kB) Manuscript for the speech in Bitburg on the occasion of the 53rd Bitburg Talks. January 7, 2010. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Christine Langenfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dr. Christine Langenfeld. CV on the website of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 
• Gigi Deppe: a portrait of Christine Langenfeld: a breath of fresh air for the constitutional court. In: tagesschau.de . July 20, 2016, archived from the original on July 24, 2016 . 
• Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld. CV on the website of the Federal Constitutional Court 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Lintz: Former Prime Minister Carl-Ludwig Wagner buried. In: volksfreund.de . August 3, 2012, accessed June 1, 2018 . 
2. ^ Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Herbert Landau resigns from office. BVerfG press release No. 44/2016, July 19, 2016, accessed on June 1, 2018 . 
3. ^ Members. Council for Migration eV, accessed on June 1, 2018 . 
4. ^ Wolfgang Janisch: Profile - Christine Langenfeld. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 7, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016 .