Angelica Lex

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Angelika Lex (born June 22, 1958 in Rosenheim ; † December 9, 2015 ) was a German lawyer and local politician ( Bündnis90 / Die Grünen ). From 1998 to 2003 and from 2013 until her death, the independent lawyer was a non-professional judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court .

Life

As a lawyer, Angelika Lex represented refugees and civil rights groups in particular and was able to achieve repeated successes against Bavaria's Ministry of the Interior, the police and the protection of the constitution. In this way, she succeeded in ending the illegal mention of the anti-fascist information, documentation and archive office in Munich in the 2012 Bavarian constitutional protection report after a series of administrative court proceedings . In the NSU trial , she represented the widow of Theodoros Boulgarides, who was allegedly murdered by the National Socialist underground in 2005, as a joint plaintiff.

From 1990 to 1995 she was a member of the Munich City Council . From 1998 to 2003, at the suggestion of Bündnis90 / Die Grünen, she was a non-professional judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court ; in December 2013 she was re- elected to this office by the Bavarian state parliament at the suggestion of Bündnis90 / Die Grünen . She was the chairman of the Bavarian Defense Lawyers Initiative and a member of the Republican Lawyers Association .

In November 2015 she received the Georg Elser Prize of the City of Munich.

Angelika Lex was married to Siegfried Benker, the former chairman of the Bündnis90 / Die Grüne parliamentary group in Munich, and had two children. She died of cancer on December 9, 2015, at the age of 57. In her honor, a street was named on March 8, 2018 on Schwanthalerhöhe (Westend).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. Retrieved December 13, 2015 .
  2. ^ Annette Ramelsberger Remarkably Dangerous , Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 11, 2011
  3. ↑ She fights for the widow of the Munich victim
  4. ↑ Printed matter of the Bavarian State Parliament of December 4, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Annette Ramelsberger: Remarkably dangerous. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 11, 2015, accessed on December 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ Bernd Kastner: Former Munich city councilor Angelika Lex is dead. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 9, 2015, accessed on December 9, 2015.
  7. ^ Obituary Münchner Merkur. Retrieved December 13, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Rathaus-Umschau: Westend: City council honors Angelika Lex with street names. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lex, Angelica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and local politician (Bündnis90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim , Bavaria , Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2015