Monika Hermanns

Monika Hermanns (born March 6, 1959 in Thuine ) is a German lawyer . She served as a judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 2004 to 2010 . Since 2010 she has been a member of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life

Hermanns is the eldest of three daughters of the secondary school principal Paul Hermanns and his wife Christine. She first grew up in Lingen until the family moved to Emsbüren in 1965 . In 1977 she passed her Abitur at the Emsland-Gymnasium in Rheine. She then studied until 1982 in Münster and Freiburg jurisprudence . In the same year she passed the first state examination in Hamm , and four years later, after completing her legal clerkship, the second state examination in Düsseldorf .

From 1986 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for European Law at Saarland University. In 1990 she entered the higher judicial service of the Saarland one. First she was seconded to the Ministry of Justice, where she was head of the press office and personal assistant to the incumbent Arno Walter . During this time she was appointed judge at the Saarbrücken Regional Court in September 1991 . She held this office from 1993. However, in January 1995 she was seconded to the Federal Court of Justice as a research assistant , which lasted until December 1997. Another delegation led her to the Ministry of Justice of the Saarland in 1998, during which she was entrusted with the management of the Law and Coordination Department in the State Chancellery.

After she had already been promoted to OLG judge during her secondment, she worked at the Saarland Higher Regional Court from December 1999 . Even then she was in discussion for a judge's position at the Federal Court of Justice. In 2001 she was also appointed to the Constitutional Court of the Saarland , of which she was a member until 2010. There she acted as a reporter in the proceedings against the Saarland Non-Smoking Protection Act . In 2004 she was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice and assigned to the 8th Civil Senate . This Senate is particularly responsible for sales law , housing rental law and leasing law .

The election committee of the Bundestag , she chose 11 November 2010 on a proposal from the SPD to the judge of the Constitutional Court. This was the first time that a Saarland lawyer was appointed to this position. Hermanns succeeded Lerke Osterloh in the Second Senate on November 16, 2010 . According to the schedule of it is currently responsible among other things for all new procedures that the charges - and tax law , including the relevant procedural law , the enforcement law , the insolvency law , the gun laws and the judicial sale , and - sequestration rights concern. In autumn 2015 she was sent by the Federal Republic of Germany as a deputy member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. According to the decision on the division of responsibilities, Hermanns is a member of the 3rd Chamber of the Second Senate of the BVerfG in 2017 together with the judges Müller and Langenfeld .

Hermanns is married to a lawyer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Attachment to the division of responsibilities of the Second Senate of December 4, 2013 ( Memento of the original of October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Members of the Venice Commission
3. ^ Federal Constitutional Court: Distribution of business. Retrieved July 24, 2017 . 

Web links

• Biographical information on the website of the Federal Constitutional Court
• Press release of the Federal Court of Justice No. 49/2004 of May 4, 2004: New judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• Daniel Kirch: Saarland judge for the first time at the Federal Constitutional Court. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from November 12, 2010. ( online )
• Thomas Pertz: Emsbürener will be a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from November 16, 2010. ( online ( Memento from September 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))