Charlotte Schmitt

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charlotte Schmitt (born 1909 in Münster ; died 1989 in Berlin ) was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court .

Life

Schmitt came from a family of lawyers. After studying biology and philosophy for a few semesters, she also began studying law . In 1936 she passed the trainee examination, in 1940 the assessor examination . She then worked in a trade association and after 1945 in a law firm in Berlin-Weißensee .

Then she moved to West Germany . She worked in the administrative judiciary in Düsseldorf and was employed there as a district judge from 1952 . From April 23, 1953, she was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin, a position that she held until September 30, 1977. From May 2, 1958, she was President of the Senate at the 2nd Revision Senate of the Federal Administrative Court . Until 1967 she was the first and only female judge at the Federal Administrative Court; In this role she made a conscious effort to take a feminine perspective on the cases presented to her.

She was married to the judge Rudolf Schmitt, with whom she had two children.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, judge at the Federal Administrative Court
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 1989
Place of death Berlin