Brigitte Tilmann

Brigitte Tilmann (born June 17, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer . From 1998 to 2006 she was President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

Tilmann grew up in Lisbon and moved to Berlin in 1950, where she first studied languages ​​after graduating from high school, then from 1961 to 1965 law at the Free University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . After her legal clerkship in Berlin and Lyon, she moved to Darmstadt in 1968 and passed the second state examination in 1969 in the field of Hessian justice. In 1970 she was appointed judge at the Darmstadt Regional Court. There she worked as a criminal judge, sometimes with a discount for looking after her two children. In 1989 she became the testing to the OLG Frankfurt seconded .

In 1990 she was seconded to the Hessian Ministry of Justice as a training officer and in November 1993 was appointed Vice-President of the Wiesbaden Regional Court, where she was chairwoman of a criminal chamber . In October 1995, she was appointed President of the Limburg Regional Court , also presiding over a criminal division.

After the head of the OLG was vacant for over a year due to the expert affair of President Horst Henrichs , it appointed Justice Minister Rupert von Plottnitz ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) as President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main from June 1998. She was the first woman in this position in Frankfurt since the court was founded in 1866. She also took over the chairmanship of the 6th Senate ( copyright law ). During her service time in April 1999 the entire court moved into the building of the former Federal Railway Directorate in the Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage, which was rented for this purpose, and after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the decisions on the computer search and the so-called Al-Qaida -Process before the State Security Senate. In June 2002, under her management, the court moved back into the meanwhile renovated and modernized head office on the Zeil .

From 1998 to 2006 she was officially a member of the Hessian electoral examination court . In this function, the CDU state parliamentary group leader Norbert Kartmann accused her of bias because she had signed an appeal for the SPD mayor candidate in Darmstadt after the electoral review court decided on March 3, 2000, with a 3 to 2 vote decision, the election review procedure for the state elections to resume in Hesse in 1999 . This decision of the election review court was repealed by the Federal Constitutional Court and the State Court of Hesse .

In 2006 she was retired, her successor was Thomas Aumüller . She then did volunteer work, including as a board member of the Fritz Bauer Institute . She was an independent educator and in 2010 - alongside the lawyer Claudia Burgsmüller - the author of the final report on sexual abuse at the Odenwald School .

Since January 2016 Brigitte Tilmann - together with Sabine Andresen (chairwoman), Christine Bergmann , Peer Briken , Barbara Kavemann and Heiner Keupp - has been a member of the independent commission for dealing with child sexual abuse .

Web links

• Brigitte Tilmann OLG President. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from June 5, 1998.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CDU calls on top election auditor to resign. In: Spiegel online from March 17, 2000
2. ^ Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of February 8, 2001, 2 BvF 1/00 ​​- (BVerfGE 103, 111 ff.)
3. ↑ Judgment of the State Court of February 13, 2002 ( Memento of the original of February 21, 2016 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. 
4. ↑ Press release of the Independent Commission for Coming up with Child Sexual Abuse