Birgit Vézina
Birgit Vézina (born May 22, 1948 in Rendsburg ) is a German lawyer . From 2001 to 2013 she was a judge at the German Federal Court of Justice .
Life
After completing her legal training, she worked as a lawyer for two years. In 1978 she entered the higher judicial service of the state of Baden-Württemberg. She initially worked for the Mannheim public prosecutor and as a trial reporter at the Mannheim District Court and the Mannheim District Court . There she was appointed judge at the district court in 1982 and a year later as a judge at the regional court. In 1982 she received her doctorate with a dissertation on “ Gleichschaltung ” from Heidelberg University. From March 1991 to July 1993 she was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court as a research assistant and from August 1994 to April 1995 to the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court.
Her choice was marred by controversy. As with the simultaneous election of Wolfgang Nešković (and five others), it was asked whether technical knowledge or political protection was decisive. The judges' selection committee chose her even though the opinion of the Presidential Council of the Federal Court of Justice was: "Professional qualification is not affirmed". The Judges' Council of the BGH and the Association of Judges and Federal Prosecutors criticized in a letter to the judges' selection committee: The election made "the legally stipulated participation of the judges' representation absurd". The Baden-Württemberg Justice Minister Goll (FDP) called Vézina's election “intolerable”. "I fear for the quality of the Federal Court of Justice". He could not have imagined that Vézina, who had been proposed by the legal policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, Hartenbach , would be elected by the judges' selection committee. The election was also publicly criticized by Christoph Palmer (CDU), the President of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court, Münchbach, and the President of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court , Stilz. The bad assessments contrast with positive assessments by other of their former bosses, such as by Thomas Dieterich , former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and President of the Federal Labor Court. The then chairman of the Bundestag legal committee, Scholz (CDU), said it was "relatively rare" that the vote of the Federal Court of Justice is deviated from. Nevertheless, one is satisfied with the filling of the positions at the Federal Court of Justice.
The Federal Court of Justice delayed the appointment by half a year. After her appointment on November 1, 2001, she was the XII. Assigned to the Senate . She retired on July 31, 2013.
Fonts
- “The synchronization” of Heidelberg University in the course of the National Socialist seizure of power . Winter, Heidelberg 1982, ISBN 3-533-03096-2 (also dissertation, University of Heidelberg)
Web links
- Press release of the Federal Supreme Court No. 78/01 of November 5, 2001: Four new judges at the Federal Supreme Court
- Press release of the Federal Court of Justice No. 132/2013 of July 31, 2013: Judge at the Federal Court of Justice Dr. Birgit Vézina retired
Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel Tschentscher: Democratic Legitimation of the Third Power (2006), p. 331f.
- ↑ New Judges Association, Press Release 26 February, 2007 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vézina, Birgit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, judge at the German Federal Court of Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany |