Gerda Müller (lawyer)

Gerda Müller b. Schumacher (born June 26, 1944 in Bad Brückenau ) is a German lawyer . From 2005 to 2009 she was Vice President of the Federal Court of Justice .

biography

After completing her legal training, Gerda Müller joined the judicial service of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1970 . In 1972 she did her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg on the subject of "Practical Effects of the Theory of Guilt in Civil Law : The Error About Unlawfulness " . After working at the Mannheim Regional Court and Mannheim Local Court , she was appointed judge at the Mannheim Regional Court in 1974. From there, from 1977 to 1979, she was assigned to the Federal Court of Justice as a research assistant , and then to the Hamm Higher Regional Court. In 1980 she was promoted to judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court - with a transfer to North Rhine-Westphalia .

In 1991 Gerda Müller was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice. Since then she has been a member of the VI, which is responsible for tort law and medical liability law . Civil Senate . When she was appointed presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice in 2000, she took over the chairmanship of this senate. In 2005 she was appointed Vice President of the Federal Court of Justice.

Main focus of her work as assessor and then as chairman of the VI. The civil senate was primarily the personal law , accident liability law and medical liability law .

Gerda Müller retired on June 30, 2009. Your successor as Vice President of the Federal Court of Justice is Wolfgang Schlick .

Gerda Müller is married and has two children.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerda Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Press release of the Federal Court of Justice of June 30, 2009