Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt

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Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt (born April 30, 1950 in Leipzig as Christine Dennhardt ) is a German lawyer and former politician ( SPD ); she was Minister in the Eichel I and Eichel II cabinets in Hesse . Hohmann-Dennhardt was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court from 1999 to January 2011, a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG from 2011 to 2015 and a member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG for Integrity and Law from January 2016 to January 2017 .

Life

Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt studied law at the University of Tübingen . After passing the second state examination in law in 1975 , she was initially a lecturer in social law at the University of Hamburg from 1975 to 1977 , then from 1977 to 1981 research assistant in the law faculty at the chair for civil law and labor law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . There she was in 1979 with a thesis on governance of companies and employees' interests: the effectiveness of employee participation in company restructuring doctorate . From 1981 to 1984, Hohmann-Dennhardt worked as a judge at the social courts in Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden as well as at the Hessian regional social court , before she was appointed director of the social court in Wiesbaden in 1984. She held this position until 1989. From 1988 to 1989 she was also a deputy member of the Hessian State Constitutional Court , the State Court of Hesse .

From 1989 to 1991 she worked as a department head for social affairs, youth and housing for the city of Frankfurt am Main. After the state elections in Hesse in 1991 , she was appointed by Hans Eichel as Minister of Justice in the Eichel I cabinet . In the Cabinet Acorn II she was from 1995 to 1999 Minister of Science and Art . From January 1999 Hohmann-Dennhardt was a member of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court , an office that she held until January 2011. At the Federal Constitutional Court she was responsible for family law and handled cases from civil status, transsexual and childcare law. Procedures for parental and child-raising allowances also fell within her department.

It was in 2001 one of the founding members of the University Council of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) . After leaving the Federal Constitutional Court, she was appointed the first female member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG with effect from February 16, 2011 , where she took over the newly created “Integrity and Law” department. The department goes back to one of several requirements imposed by the US authorities to appoint a board member specifically for compliance .

In October 2015, Daimler AG announced that it would release Hohmann-Dennhardt from its contract, which ran until February 28, 2017, at the request of Volkswagen AG, effective January 1, 2016. On the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Group, she filled the newly created department of integrity and law in connection with the emissions scandal with the aim of coming to terms with the scandal. There she left on January 31, 2017. Volkswagen announced that it was separating "due to different views on responsibilities and the future operational work structures in their department". She received a severance payment of just under two annual salaries, ie a total of 12 to 15 million euros and an immediate monthly pension of up to 8,000 euros. This led to criticism in the media. Der Spiegel addressed the severance payment and other incidents at VW in an article entitled The Self-Service Store .

Hohmann-Dennhardt is married to the former President of the Hessian Statistical Office , Eckart Hohmann, and has two children.

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  1. ↑ a b Federal Constitutional Court: Federal Constitutional Judge Dr. Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt is leaving office. Press Release No. 10/2011 of February 1, 2011. Accessed February 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ https://idw-online.de/de/news27221
  3. ↑ Daimler brings women to the Board of Management for the first time . February 16, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
  4. ^ Ex-Federal Constitutional Judge as the first woman on the board.
  5. ^ Michael Freitag, Martin Noé: A firefighter for Daimler. In: manager-magazin.de of June 7, 2011.
  6. ↑ Press release from VW AG ( Memento from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 2, 2016
  7. ↑ Hohmann-Dennhardt changes to the VW board , FAZ.net October 16, 2015
  8. ↑ SPIEGEL.de October 16, 2015: Emissions scandal : Daimler board member should clean up at VW
  9. ↑ Why this lawyer is leaving VW so quickly . FAZ.net. January 26, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  10. ↑ VW ethics boss receives compensation of up to 15 million euros. FAZ.net , January 30, 2017
  11. ^ Dirk Birgel: Ethics à la Volkswagen. In: Deutschlandfunk. February 4, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Max Hägler: The twelve million euro error . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 1, 2017, p. 4.
  13. ↑ The self-service shop. In: Spiegel Online from February 7, 2017.
  14. ↑ Susanne Preuss: Ms. Calculated. In: FAZ.net . February 20, 2012, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  15. ^ New female judges at the Federal Constitutional Court . Website: The Federal President, notification dated February 2, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Hohmann-Dennhardt, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig