Anne-Gudrun Meier-Scherling

Anne-Gudrun Meier-Scherling (born July 26, 1906 in Stendal ; † January 26, 2002 in Kassel ; née Scherling ) was a German lawyer.

Career

Anne-Gudrun Scherling was born as the daughter of a lawyer. Her father was later President of the Senate at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . Because of her small size, she did not start school until she was seven. A special permit from the Provincial School Council allowed her to switch to a boys' high school in 1920. After graduating from high school, she studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Kiel and Berlin and received her doctorate on July 25, 1931 in Berlin. In 1933 she married her lawyer colleague Heinz Meier. He starved to death in Soviet captivity in 1947.

She had practiced as a lawyer in Naumburg since 1939. She was persecuted in the GDR for standing up for human rights and freedom of expression and fled to the Federal Republic with her three children in 1950. She was a regional judge in Dortmund and a higher regional judge in Hamm. On April 7, 1955, she was appointed as the first woman to be a judge at the recently established Federal Labor Court. She retired on September 30, 1971.

Honors

• 1971: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• The first female judge at the BAG was 95 , In: Der Betrieb, Issue 31, p. 18, August 3, 2001
• BAG: Federal judge Meier-Scherling died at the age of 96 , In: Der Betrieb, Issue 7, p. 18, February 15, 2002