List of judges of the Federal Constitutional Court

The first section of this list contains all persons who have been appointed judges of the German Federal Constitutional Court since its establishment in 1951 . The second and third sections show how the composition of the two Senates and the proportion of women have changed over time. Some statistics in the fourth section complete the overview. So far, a total of 111 judges at the Federal Constitutional Court have ruled .

The relevant legal norm with reference to this list is the Federal Constitutional Court Act (BVerfG).

Dieter Grimm, Hermann Heussner and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1989)

List of all judges

• Name (life data): Give the name of the judge. In brackets are the year of birth for judges who are still alive and the year of birth and death for judges who have already died.
• Beginning of the term of office: Indicates the time of taking office according to §§ 10 f. BVerfGG . This is not the same as the time of the election.
• Term End: Indicates the last day of the term of office. In the case of incumbent judges, the probable end of the term of office according to § 4 Paragraph 1, 3 BVerfGG (expiry of the twelve-year term of office or reaching the age limit of 68 years) is indicated and italicized.
• Senate: According to Section 2 (1) BVerfGG, the Federal Constitutional Court consists of two Senates.
• Electoral body: According to Article 94, Paragraph 1, Sentence 2 of the Basic Law in conjunction with Art . V. m. Section 5 (1) sentence 1 BVerfGG is elected half by the Bundestag and half by the Bundesrat .
• Position: The designation consists of the number of the Senate (1 or 2), the electoral body (Bundesrat or Bundestag), the position (1 to 6) and a number corresponding to the chronological order. Example: The indication "1 BR 4.3" shows that the judge was the third to fill the fourth position of the judge elected by the Federal Council in the first senate.
• Proposal: While there is uncertainty about the exact outcome of the compromise found between the government and the opposition to fill the Federal Constitutional Court for the first time, it has been political practice since the first supplementary election at the latest that the Union and the SPD grant each other the right to fill the vacant seats. Occasionally, the right of proposal was assigned to the FDP or Alliance 90 / Greens .
• Vice-President: Indicates the date on which the judge was appointed Vice-President ( Section 9 (1) BVerfGG ).
• President: Indicates the date on which the judge was appointed President ( Section 9 (1) BVerfGG ).

Name (life data)	Start of term of office	End of term	senate	Electoral body	Position	suggestion	Vice President	president
Susanne Baer (* 1964)	0Feb. 2, 2011	0Feb 1, 2023	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 3.6	Green	-	-
Ernst Benda (1925-2009)	0Dec 8, 1971	Dec 20, 1983	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 1.4	CDU / CSU	-	0Dec 8, 1971
Hugo Berger (1897–1990)	0Jan. 8, 1959	Aug 11, 1967	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 2.2	SPD	-	-
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930–2019)	Dec 20, 1983	0May 3, 1996	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 4.5	SPD	-	-
Werner Böhmer (1915-2014)	Feb 10, 1965	05th July 1983	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 2.3	CDU / CSU	-	-
Gabriele Britz (* 1968)	0Feb. 2, 2011	0Feb 1, 2023	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 3.6	SPD	-	-
Siegfried Broß (* 1946)	28 Sep 1998	Nov 16, 2010	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 3.5	CDU / CSU	-	-
Hans Brox (1920–2009)	0Sep 1 1967	0Nov 7, 1975	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 4.2	CDU / CSU	-	-
Brun-Otto Bryde (* 1943)	Jan. 23, 2001	0Feb. 2, 2011	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 3.5	Green	-	-
Josef Christ (* 1956)	0Dec. 1, 2017	Nov 30, 2024	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 1.8	CDU / CSU	-	-
Udo Di Fabio (* 1954)	Dec 16, 1999	Dec. 19, 2011	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 1.6	CDU / CSU	-	-
Thomas Dieterich (1934-2016)	Nov 16, 1987	0Feb. 4, 1994	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 2.5	SPD	-	-
Martin Drath (1902–1976)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1963	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 6.1	SPD	-	-
Michael Eichberger (* 1953)	Apr 25, 2006	16th July 2018	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 1.5	CDU / CSU	-	-
Wilhelm Ellinghaus (1888–1961)	13 Sep 1951	Oct 12, 1955	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 5.1	SPD	-	-
Hans Joachim Faller (1915-2006)	0Dec 8, 1971	July 19, 1983	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 1.2	CDU / CSU	-	-
Julius Federer (1911–1984)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1967	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 3.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Everhardt Franßen (* 1937)	Nov 16, 1987	June 30, 1991	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 1.3	SPD	-	-
Ernst Friesenhahn (1901–1984)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1963	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 6.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Georg Fröhlich (1884–1971)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1956	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 3.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Reinhard Gaier (* 1954)	0Nov 1, 2004	0Nov 8, 2016	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 2.7	SPD	-	-
Willi Geiger (1909–1994)	0Sep 7 1951	0Nov 2, 1977	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 2.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Gregor Geller (1903–1988)	0Sep 1 1963	0Dec 8, 1971	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 4.3	CDU / CSU	-	-
Michael Gerhardt (* 1948)	July 31, 2003	15th July 2014	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 1.5	SPD	-	-
Karin Graßhof (* 1937)	0Oct 8, 1986	Oct 15, 1998	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 2.3	SPD	-	-
Dieter Grimm (* 1937)	July 16, 1987	Dec 16, 1999	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 4.3	SPD	-	-
Karl Haager (1911-2008)	0May 9, 1962	0May 7, 1979	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 3.2	SPD	-	-
Evelyn Haas (* 1949)	Sep 14 1994	0Oct 2, 2006	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 1.6	CDU / CSU	-	-
Stephan Harbarth (* 1971)	Nov 30, 2018	Nov 29, 2030	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 4.7	CDU / CSU	Nov 30, 2018	June 22, 2020
Ines Härtel (* 1972)	July 10, 2020	0July 9, 2032	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 4.6	SPD	-	-
Winfried Hassemer (1940-2014)	0May 3, 1996	0May 7, 2008	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 4.6	SPD	Apr 10, 2002	-
Karl Heck (1896–1997)	0Apr 2, 1954	0Feb 9, 1965	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 2.2	CDU / CSU	-	-
Gerhard Heiland (1894–1961)	0Sep 7 1951	22 Aug 1961	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 3.1	SPD	-	-
Anton Henneka (1900–1984)	0Sep 7 1951	Dec 20, 1968	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 2.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Johann Friedrich Henschel (1931-2007)	July 19, 1983	Oct 13, 1995	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 1.3	FDP	29 Sep 1994	-
Monika Hermanns (* 1959)	Nov 16, 2010	Nov 15, 2022	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 2.5	SPD	-	-
Roman Herzog (1934-2017)	Dec 20, 1983	June 30, 1994	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 1.5	CDU / CSU	Dec 20, 1983	Nov 16, 1987
Konrad Hesse (1919-2005)	0Nov 7, 1975	July 16, 1987	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 4.2	SPD / FDP	-	-
Hermann Heussner (1926–1996)	0May 7, 1979	June 15, 1989	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 3.3	SPD	-	-
Martin Hirsch (1913–1992)	0Dec 8, 1971	0July 6, 1981	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 4.2	SPD	-	-
Dieter Hömig (1938-2016)	Oct 13, 1995	Apr 25, 2006	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 1.4	FDP	-	-
Hermann Höpker-Aschoff (1883–1954)	0Sep 7 1951	Jan 15, 1954	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 1.1	FDP	-	0Sep 7 1951
Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt (* 1950)	Jan. 11, 1999	0Feb. 2, 2011	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 3.5	SPD	-	-
Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem (* 1940)	Dec 16, 1999	0Apr 2, 2008	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 4.4	SPD	-	-
Peter M. Huber (* 1959)	Nov 16, 2010	Nov 15, 2022	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 3.6	CDU / CSU	-	-
Renate Jaeger (* 1940)	24 Mar 1994	Oct 31, 2004	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 2.6	SPD	-	-
Hans-Joachim Jentsch (* 1937)	0May 3, 1996	28 Sep 2005	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 3.5	CDU / CSU	-	-
Rudolf Katz (1895–1961)	0Sep 7 1951	July 23, 1961	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 1.1	SPD	0Sep 7 1951	-
Dietrich Katzenstein (1923-2008)	0Nov 7, 1975	Nov 16, 1987	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 4.3	CDU / CSU	-	-
Sibylle Kessal-Wulf (* 1958)	Dec. 19, 2011	Dec 18, 2023	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 2.5	CDU / CSU	-	-
Ferdinand Kirchhof (* 1950)	0Oct 1, 2007	Nov 30, 2018	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 4.6	CDU / CSU	16. Mar. 2010	-
Paul Kirchhof (* 1943)	Nov 16, 1987	Dec 16, 1999	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 1.5	CDU / CSU	-	-
Walter Klaas (1895–1978)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1963	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 6.1	SPD	-	-
Hans Hugo Klein (* 1936)	Dec 20, 1983	0May 3, 1996	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 3.4	CDU / CSU	-	-
Doris König (* 1957)	02nd June 2014	June 30, 2025	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 4.6	SPD	June 22, 2020	-
Konrad Kruis (* 1930)	Nov 16, 1987	28 Sep 1998	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 3.4	CDU / CSU	-	-
Jürgen Kühling (1934-2019)	July 12, 1989	Jan. 23, 2001	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 3.4	SPD	-	-
Hans Kutscher (1911–1993)	Oct 12, 1955	Aug 31, 1956	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 5.2	SPD	-	-
	0Sep 1 1956	Oct 25, 1970	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 3.2	SPD	-	-
Christine Langenfeld (* 1962)	20th July 2016	July 19, 2028	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 3.7	CDU / CSU	-	-
Herbert Landau (* 1948)	July 20, 2005	20th July 2016	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 3.6	CDU / CSU	-	-
Joachim Lehmann (1909–1979)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1963	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 6.1	SPD	-	-
Gerhard Leibholz (1901–1982)	0Sep 7 1951	0Dec 8, 1971	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 4.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Claus Leusser (1909–1966)	0Sep 7 1951	Jan. 18, 1952	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 4.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Jutta Limbach (1934-2016)	24 Mar 1994	Apr 10, 2002	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 4.4	SPD	24 Mar 1994	Sep 14 1994
Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff (* 1953)	Apr 10, 2002	02nd June 2014	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 4.5	SPD	-	-
Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz (* 1929)	0July 6, 1981	24 Mar 1994	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 4.3	SPD	Nov 16, 1987	-
Ulrich Maidowski (* 1958)	15th July 2014	July 14, 2026	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 1.6	SPD	-	-
Johannes Masing (* 1959)	0Apr 2, 2008	July 10, 2020	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 4.5	SPD	-	-
Rudolf Mellinghoff (* 1954)	Jan. 23, 2001	Oct 31, 2011	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 2.4	CDU / CSU	-	-
Gebhard Müller (1900–1990)	0Jan. 8, 1959	0Dec 8, 1971	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 1.3	CDU / CSU	-	0Jan. 8, 1959
Peter Müller (* 1955)	Dec. 19, 2011	Sep 30 2023	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 1.7	CDU / CSU	-	-
Engelbert Niebler (1921-2006)	0Nov 7, 1975	Nov 16, 1987	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 3.3	CDU / CSU	-	-
Franz Niedermaier (1925–1986)	05th July 1983	0Apr 5, 1986	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 2.4	CDU / CSU	-	-
Gisela Niemeyer (1923–2012)	0Nov 2, 1977	Nov 28, 1989	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 3.3	SPD	-	-
Lerke Osterloh (* 1944)	Oct 15, 1998	Nov 16, 2010	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 2.4	SPD	-	-
Yvonne Ott (* 1963)	0Nov 8, 2016	0Nov 7, 2028	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 2.8	SPD	-	-
Hans-Jürgen Paper (* 1943)	Feb. 27, 1998	16. Mar. 2010	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 2.6	CDU / CSU	Feb. 27, 1998	Apr 10, 2002
Andreas Paulus (* 1968)	16. Mar. 2010	15th Mar 2022	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 2.7	FDP	-	-
Henning Radtke (* 1962)	16th July 2018	May 31, 2030	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 1.6	CDU / CSU	-	-
Hans-Justus Rinck (1918–1995)	Dec 20, 1968	0Oct 8, 1986	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 2.2	CDU / CSU	-	-
Theodor Ritterspach (1904–1999)	0Sep 7 1951	0Nov 7, 1975	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 4.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Conrad Frederick Roediger (1887–1973)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1956	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 5.1	DP	-	-
Joachim Rottmann (1925-2014)	0Dec 8, 1971	Dec 20, 1983	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 4.4	FDP	-	-
Hans Georg Rupp (1907–1989)	0Sep 7 1951	0Nov 7, 1975	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 1.1	SPD	-	-
Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck (1912–1977)	0Sep 1 1963	Aug 18, 1977	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 3.2	SPD	-	-
Erna Scheffler (1893–1983)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1963	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 3.1	SPD	-	-
Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907–1980)	0Sep 1 1967	0Nov 7, 1975	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 3.2	CDU / CSU	-	-
Wilhelm Schluckebier (* 1949)	0Oct 2, 2006	0Dec. 1, 2017	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 1.7	CDU / CSU	-	-
Herbert Scholtissek (1900–1979)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1967	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 4.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Egon Schunck (1890–1981)	13 Sep 1952	Aug 31, 1963	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 4.2	CDU / CSU	-	-
Helga Seibert (1939–1999)	Nov 28, 1989	28 Sep 1998	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 3.4	SPD	-	-
Otto Seidl (* 1931)	June 10, 1986	Feb. 27, 1998	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 2.5	CDU / CSU	Oct 13, 1995	-
Walter Seuffert (1907–1989)	Oct 18, 1967	0Nov 7, 1975	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 1.3	SPD	Oct 18, 1967	-
Helmut Simon (1922-2013)	June 15, 1970	Nov 16, 1987	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 2.4	SPD	-	-
Alfred Söllner (1930-2005)	Nov 16, 1987	Oct 13, 1995	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 4.4	CDU / CSU	-	-
Bertold Sommer (* 1937)	July 12, 1991	July 31, 2003	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 1.4	SPD	-	-
Erwin Stein (1903–1992)	0Sep 7 1951	0Dec 8, 1971	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 1.1	CDU / CSU	-	-
Helmut Steinberger (1931–2014)	0Nov 7, 1975	Nov 16, 1987	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 1.4	CDU / CSU	-	-
Udo Steiner (* 1939)	Oct 13, 1995	0Oct 1, 2007	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 4.5	CDU / CSU	-	-
Ernstträger (1926-2015)	0Nov 2, 1977	Nov 28, 1989	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 2.2	CDU / CSU	-	-
Andreas Voßkuhle (* 1963)	0May 7, 2008	June 22, 2020	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 4.7	SPD	0May 7, 2008	16. Mar. 2010
Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1894–1971)	Dec. 19, 1961	Oct 18, 1967	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 1.2	SPD	Dec. 19, 1961	-
Astrid Wallrabenstein (* 1969)	June 22, 2020	June 21, 2032	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 4.8	Green	-	-
Walter Rudi Wand (1928–1985)	Oct 26, 1970	Dec 20, 1983	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 3.3	CDU / CSU	-	-
Franz Wessel (1903-1958)	0Sep 7 1951	Sep 10 1958	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 2.1	SPD	-	-
Klaus Winter (1936-2000)	Nov 28, 1989	Oct 10, 2000	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 2.3	CDU / CSU	-	-
Josef Wintrich (1891-1958)	23 Mar 1954	Oct 19, 1958	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 1.2	CDU / CSU	-	23 Mar 1954
Bernhard Wolff (1886–1966)	0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1956	2nd Senate	Federal Council	2 BR 5.1	SPD	-	-
Wolfgang Zeidler (1924–1987)	Aug 11, 1967	May 31, 1970	1st Senate	Federal Council	1 BR 2.3	SPD	-	-
	0Nov 7, 1975	Nov 16, 1987	2nd Senate	Bundestag	2 BT 1.2	SPD	0Nov 7, 1975	Dec 20, 1983
Konrad Zweigert (1911–1996)	0Sep 7 1951	Oct 11, 1956	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 5.1	SPD	-	-
Kurt Zweigert (1886–1967)	13 Sep 1951	Feb 14, 1952	1st Senate	Bundestag	1 BT 2.1	CDU / CSU	-

Development of the occupation

Originally, both senates were made up of twelve judges each in accordance with Section 2 (2) BVerfGG. An amending law of July 21, 1956 provided for the number of judges in each Senate to be reduced to eight from September 1, 1959. For the time being, the senates should each have ten judges. Therefore, the posts of the four judges Konrad Zweigert, Hans Kutscher, Conrad Frederick Roediger and Bernhard Wolff were dropped when their term of office ended on August 31, 1956 and October 11, 1956, respectively.

By law of June 26, 1959, the date for the cancellation of the other four judicial posts was postponed to September 1, 1963. The posts of Joachim Lehmann, Martin Drath, Walter Klaas and Ernst Friesenhahn were not filled again after their term of office on August 31, 1963. Since then, each Senate has only had eight judges.

First Senate

Second Senate

Development of the proportion of women

When determining the percentage, periods in which a judge's position remained vacant were not taken into account because a successor has not yet been appointed for a judge who has resigned.

First Senate

from	to	#	%	female members
0Sep 7 1951	Aug 31, 1956	1	8.3%	Erna Scheffler
Aug 31, 1956	Oct 11, 1956	1	9.1% ( 1 )	Erna Scheffler
Oct 11, 1956	Aug 31, 1963	1	10% ( 1 )	Erna Scheffler
Aug 31, 1963	Aug 18, 1977	1	12.5% ( 1 )	Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck
Aug 18, 1977	Nov 28, 1989	1	12.5%	Gisela Niemeyer
Nov 28, 1989	24 Mar 1994	1	12.5%	Helga Seibert
24 Mar 1994	Sep 24 1994	2	25%	Helga Seibert , Renate Jaeger
Sep 24 1994	28 Sep 1998	3	37.5%	Helga Seibert , Renate Jaeger , Evelyn Haas
Jan. 11, 1999	Oct 31, 2004	3	37.5%	Renate Jaeger , Evelyn Haas , Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt
Oct 31, 2004	0Oct 2, 2006	2	25%	Evelyn Haas , Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt
0Oct 2, 2006	0Feb. 2, 2011	1	12.5%	Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt
0Feb. 2, 2011	0Nov 8, 2016	2	25%	Susanne Baer , Gabriele Britz
0Nov 8, 2016	July 10, 2020	3	37.5%	Susanne Baer , Gabriele Britz , Yvonne Ott
July 10, 2020		4th	50%	Susanne Baer , Gabriele Britz , Ines Härtel , Yvonne Ott

¹ Although no additional women were appointed to the court, their percentage increased as the Senate's membership decreased.

Second Senate

from	to	#	%	female members
0Sep 7 1951	0Oct 8, 1986	0	0%	no
0Oct 8, 1986	24 Mar 1994	1	12.5%	Karin Graßhof
24 Mar 1994	Oct 15, 1998	2	25%	Karin Graßhof , Jutta Limbach
Oct 15, 1998	Apr 10, 2002	2	25%	Jutta Limbach , Lerke Osterloh
Apr 10, 2002	Nov 16, 2010	2	25%	Lerke Osterloh , Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff
Nov 16, 2010	Dec. 19, 2011	2	25%	Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff , Monika Hermanns
Dec. 19, 2011	02nd June 2014	3	37.5%	Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff , Monika Hermanns , Sibylle Kessal-Wulf
02nd June 2014	20th July 2016	3	37.5%	Monika Hermanns , Sibylle Kessal-Wulf , Doris König
20th July 2016	May 15, 2020	4th	50%	Monika Hermanns , Sibylle Kessal-Wulf , Doris König , Christine Langenfeld
June 22, 2020		5	62.5%	Monika Hermanns , Sibylle Kessal-Wulf , Doris König , Christine Langenfeld , Astrid Wallrabenstein

See also: Federal Constitutional Court, section: Share of women in the Federal Constitutional Court

statistics

• Of the 111 judges who had served on the Federal Constitutional Court since 1951, 91 were male and 20 female.
• 59 sat in the first senate, 54 worked in the second senate. Hans Kutscher and Wolfgang Zeidler have belonged to both senates.
• 53 judges were proposed by the Union, 48 by the SPD, five by the FDP, three by the Greens, one by the DP and one jointly by the social-liberal government coalition.
• The Federal Constitutional Court has so far presided over ten presidents and fifteen vice-presidents. Six judges held both offices.
• No judge served longer than Willi Geiger, who only left after almost 26 years and two months. Claus Leusser, on the other hand, resigned his position after just over four months.
• When Julius Federer started his service at the Federal Constitutional Court, he had just passed the age limit of 40 by around four months. The first President Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, however, was 68 years and seven months old when he took over his office. However, Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner became a senior at the Federal Constitutional Court: when he left, he was almost 73 years and eight months old.

See also

• List of German federal judges

literature

• The members of the Federal Constitutional Court 1951 to 2001. In: Peter Badura , Horst Dreier (Hrsg.): Festschrift 50 years Federal Constitutional Court. Volume 2. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-16-147627-3 , pp. 913-930.
• Sebastian Knoppik: Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court from 1951 to 2003. In: Ders .: Political origin of constitutional judges and decision-making practice in the Federal Republic. Master's thesis at the University of Hanover, 2004, pp. 82–87.
• Dieter C. Umbach: Judges Review of the Federal Constitutional Court (1951 to 2005). In: Dieter C. Umbach, Thomas Clemens, Franz-Wilhelm Dollinger (eds.): Federal Constitutional Court Act. Staff comment and manual . 2nd Edition. CF Müller, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-8114-3109-6 , pp. 1385-1387.
• German Association of Judges (ed.): Handbuch der Justiz 2012/2013. The carriers and organs of judicial power in the Federal Republic of Germany. 31st year. CF Müller, Heidelberg [a. a.] 2012, ISBN 978-3-8114-3631-2 , p. 1.
• Christian Rath: The referee state. The power of the Federal Constitutional Court. Wagenbach, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8031-3646-6 , pp. 15-17.

Web links

Commons : Judges of the Federal Constitutional Court  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Press releases of the Federal Constitutional Court on new appointments since 2002: No. 46/2002 , No. 61/2003 , No. 96/2004 , No. 91/2005 , No. 31/2006 , No. 88/2006 , No. 96/2007 , No. 43/2008 , No. 51/2008 , No. 17/2010 , No. 103/2010 , No. 104/2010 , No. 10/2011 , No. 11/2011 , No. 67/2011 , No. 81/2011 , No. 47/2014 , No. 59/2014 , No. 44/2016 , No. 81/2016 , No. 106/2017 , No. 58/2018 , No. 83/2018 , No. 51 / 2020 , No. 60/2020
• Press releases of the Federal Constitutional Court on deceased judges since 2002: No. 29/2005 , No. 112/2005 , No. 59/2006 , No. 81/2006 , No. 32/2007 , No. 69/2008 , No. 81/2008 , No. 20/2009 , No. 61/2009 , No. 9/2012 , No. 59/2013 , No. 1/2014 , No. 54/2014 , No. 65/2014 , No. 6/2015 , No. . 24/2016 , No. 64/2016 , No. 73a / 2016 , No. 1/2017 , No. 14/2019 , No. 93/2019
• Acting judges of the Federal Constitutional Court

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Ley: The first occupation of the Federal Constitutional Court. In: Journal for Parliamentary Questions, 1982, pp. 521–541, here p. 522.
2. ↑ Henning Frank: The "neutral" judges of the Federal Constitutional Court. In: Walther Fürst u. a. (Ed.): Festschrift for Wolfgang Zeidler. Volume 1. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1987, ISBN 3-11-011057-1 , pp. 163–173, here p. 163.
3. ↑ Hans Lechner, Rüdiger Zuck: Federal Constitutional Court Act. Comment. 6th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 3-406-61112-5 , p. 101 Rn. 4th