Helga Seibert
Helga Seibert (born January 7, 1939 in Witzenhausen ; † April 12, 1999 in Munich ) was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court from 1989 to 1998 .
Seibert studied English and French at the International and Interpreting Institute in Germersheim and law at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin . In 1964 she passed the First State Examination in Law and studied for a year at the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and from 1966 to 1967 at Yale Law School . After her second State examination in 1970, she worked as Secretary to the Working Group on Law of the SPD - Parliamentary Group operates, then a researcher at the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC). From 1974 to 1989 she worked in the Federal Ministry of Justice . On November 28, 1989, she was appointed judge in the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court. She was the fifth woman to be elected to the German Federal Constitutional Court. In 1998, she resigned from the service for health reasons.
Seibert was a member of the first senate of the court. Her department mainly dealt with family law , including questions of name law , civil status law , the transsexual law and child and youth welfare law .
She shaped the jurisprudence for the constitutional review of family law norms and earned her merits in the completion of the jurisprudence to enforce the equality of illegitimate and legitimate children, the position of the illegitimate father in the case of adoption of the child, the entitlement of the illegitimate child against the mother to the naming of the father and changing first names for transsexuals.
She was one of the few women to be included in the book Women in Law while she was still alive . Shortly before her death, she was awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize by the Humanist Union . The reason stated:
- It may seem unusual for a civil rights organization to honor a top judge, but for us your work is one of the special achievements in dealing with fundamental rights.
She did not live to see the ceremony for the award ceremony on April 30, 1999.
literature
- Deutscher Juristinnenbund eV (Ed.): Jurists in Germany. The period from 1900 to 2003. Nomos 2003. ISBN 3832903593
- Cynthia Epstein: Women in Law . University of Illinois Press 1993. ISBN 0252062051
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seibert, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German constitutional judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witzenhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1999 |
| Place of death | Munich |