Erika Andreß

Erika Andreß (* 1953 in Aurich ) is President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court (HansOLG). She is the first woman to head the court in more than 120 years.

Andreß comes from a large, non-academic family. She did her high school diploma on the second path of education. She has been a judge since October 1989 . In 2000 she became director of the Hamburg-Harburg district court . She later became Vice President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court. The president at that time was Wilhelm Rapp .

When she was elected in July 2007, she was able to assert herself in the judges' selection committee against the competitor Sibylle Umlauf , who was favored by the then Justice Senator Carsten Lüdemann , then Vice-President of the Hamburg District Court and President of the Hamburg Regional Court since 2009 .

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1. ↑ Die Welt from October 10, 2007 (accessed November 4, 2013)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Erika Andreß: In the name of justice Hamburger Abendblatt of September 10, 2012, accessed on May 14, 2015