Bettina Limperg

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Bettina Limperg (born April 5, 1960 in Wuppertal - Elberfeld ) is a German lawyer and has been President of the Federal Court of Justice since July 1, 2014 . She is the first woman in this position.

Live and act

Bettina Limperg passed her Abitur in 1979 at the Am Kothen grammar school in Wuppertal, where her father was a teacher of mathematics and physics and deputy headmaster. Participation in a law class given by a presiding judge of the Wuppertal Regional Court sparked her interest in studying law. So she then studied law in Freiburg and Tübingen . In 1989, she was a prosecutor at the Prosecutor Stuttgart and judge on trial in office - and Stuttgart Regional Court . From 1991 to 1994 Limperg worked at the regional court in various criminal chambers. In 1992 she was appointed judge at the regional court. From 1994 to 1996 she was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court, where she worked as a research assistant to Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and dealt with questions of asylum law and state church law.

In 1996 she returned to the Stuttgart Regional Court as a judge in a criminal chamber. In addition, she was initially a probation officer, and from 1998 presidential judge . In November 2001 she was sent to the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court for testing , which was followed by the appointment of a judge at the OLG. From 2004 to May 2009, Limperg was director of the Waiblingen District Court . In June 2009 she was appointed presiding judge and vice-president of the Stuttgart Regional Court.

Limperg is non-party. Since June 15, 2011, she was the first head of the Ministry of Justice of Baden-Württemberg as Ministerial Director . After the then Federal Justice Minister Heiko Maas had been addressed, it was on May 23, 2014 proposal from the SPD from the judicial selection committee elected federal judge. Limperg's appeal by the Federal Cabinet took place on June 11, 2014. On July 1, 2014, she took up her post as President of the Federal Court of Justice and thus succeeded Klaus Tolksdorf , who in January 2014 exceeded the age limit.

What was unusual about this appeal was that Limperg had never previously led a senate of the Federal Court of Justice or a higher regional court, as has been the norm for such an appeal. At the Federal Court of Justice, she is the superior of judges, civil servants and collective bargaining employees (within the limits resulting from the judicial independence (Article 97 of the Basic Law)). Secondly, it is a judge who - by law - the chair of the Senate for legal matters , the Great Senate for civil matters , in the Great Senate for criminal matters and in the senates United Grand holds.

Private

Bettina Limperg lives in Fellbach , is married and has two children.

For the Ecumenical Church Congress 2021 in Frankfurt am Main , she acts as the Protestant President.

interview

Karlsruhe, Germany and Europe - on the work of a BGH president in Juris Die Monatsschrift, issue 4, April 2018, pp. 173–175

Fonts

Bettina Limperg: Personal changes in constitutional law and her new situation after the seizure of power . In: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (Ed.): Constitutional Law and Constitutional Law Doctrine in the Third Reich , Heidelberg 1985,

Footnotes

↑ Wuppertaler Rundschau BGH President comes from Wuppertal , February 13, 2019, accessed on February 14, 2019.
^ Rüdiger Soldt: Bettina Limperg - A bundle of qualifications. In: faz.net. May 31, 2011, accessed April 14, 2014 .
↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Bettina Limperg in portrait - "Women constantly underestimate each other" , April 15, 2018, accessed on February 14, 2019.
↑ Press release: 22 new federal judges elected. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, May 23, 2014, archived from the original on May 25, 2014 ; accessed on April 2, 2018 .
↑ Press release of the Federal Court of Justice No. 103/2014 of July 1, 2014
^ Hannelore Crolly: Bettina Limperg: Trümmerfrau in the Federal Court of Justice. In: welt.de . October 2, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
↑ Website of the BGH Tasks of the President
↑ A leap into political business with a market view. In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de. June 21, 2011, archived from the original ; Retrieved April 14, 2014 .
↑ Shaping the world. Presidium of the 3rd Ecumenical Church Congress has been constituted. In: 3rd Ecumenical Church Congress. December 10, 2018, accessed February 14, 2019 .