Gisela Niemeyer
Gisela Niemeyer (born Wawer , born September 25, 1923 in Danzig ; † February 7, 2012 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and from 1972 to 1977 a judge at the Federal Fiscal Court and from 1977 to 1989 a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court .
Life
Gisela Niemeyer was born the daughter of a teacher and a parliamentary stenographer. In 1942 she passed her Abitur. At first she planned to become a journalist, but then decided to study medicine. After a few months of study, she was drafted into service during World War II. At the end of the war she then had to flee. Now married to a former Navy officer , she began studying law at Kiel University in 1948 . Shortly after the first state examination , she gave birth to her second child. She then moved to Bonn with her family , where she temporarily worked as a lawyer and finally did her legal clerkship and passed the second state examination in law.
After training and doctorate , Niemeyer initially worked in the financial administration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1957 to 1964 she was head of the department at the Bonn- Stadt tax office . Subsequently she was a teacher at the State Finance School in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1966 . From 1966 she was a judge at the Düsseldorf Finance Court , and from 1971 as the presiding judge of the 6th Senate of the Düsseldorf Finance Court.
From 1972 to 1977, Niemeyer held the office of judge at the Federal Fiscal Court before she was appointed President of the Düsseldorf Finance Court. She was the first woman to preside over a tax court . In the same year she was elected judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, of which she was a member of the first Senate until she retired in 1989. She succeeded Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck at the Federal Constitutional Court . In particular, she was the rapporteur on cases relating to family law . Although a member of the SPD , she tended to vote with her more conservative colleagues - similar to Wolfgang Zeidler, who was proposed by the SPD in the Second Senate. Her successor at the Federal Constitutional Court was Helga Seibert .
Honors
On October 23, 1989 Gisela Niemeyer was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gisela Niemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Press release no. 72/2003 of the Federal Constitutional Court of September 25, 2003 on the occasion of his 80th birthday
- Press release No. 84/2008 of the Federal Constitutional Court of September 24, 2008 on the occasion of the 85th birthday
- Press release No. 9/2012 of the Federal Constitutional Court of February 15, 2012: Former Federal Constitutional Judge Dr. Gisela Niemeyer passed away
- Eva Marie von Manch, A little alibi woman , Die Zeit No. 16/1980 of April 11, 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the FG Düsseldorf on the homepage of the FG Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2010 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.
- ↑ Rolf Lamprecht , Only Heaven Above You , Der Spiegel , issue 34/1987 from August 17, 1987.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niemeyer, Gisela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wawer, Gisela (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 2012 |
| Place of death | Bonn |