Hannelore Kohl (judge)

Hannelore Kohl (born October 19, 1948 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German judge . She was President of the State Constitutional Court of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Higher Administrative Court of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Life

After completing high school at the humanistic Lessing high school in Frankfurt, Hannelore Kohl studied at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Geneva . She then worked as a lawyer in the Darmstadt regional council. She began her judicial career in 1979 at the Frankfurt am Main Administrative Court and later went to the Hessian Administrative Court , where she most recently headed a Senate. In 1997, Kohl became president of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Higher Administrative Court, where she held her office until she retired at the end of 2013. This made her the first woman to head a German higher administrative court. From January 30, 2008 until she reached the age of 68 in 2016, she was also President of the State Constitutional Court as the successor to Gerhard Hückstädt .

Hannelore Kohl has been a member of the SPD since 1972 and has been a member of the Working Group of Social Democratic Lawyers (ASJ) for several years , at times she was chairman of their Hessian regional association. From 1986 to 2019 she was a member of the party's federal arbitration commission, initially as deputy chairwoman and from 2001 as chairwoman.

Hannelore Kohl is a member of the board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy and chairwoman of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Honorary Foundation .

Kohl is also a member of the MV regional group of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL) and co-editor of the journal for public law in Northern Germany . In 2018 she received the Rubenow Medal from the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald.

Private

Hannelore Kohl has lived in Greifswald since 1997 and has been a member of the Caspar David Friedrich Society , its chairman since 2014.

Web links

• Literature about Hannelore Kohl (judge) in the state bibliography MV
• Hannelore Kohl decides on Clement , report on Kohl's participation in the SPD party exclusion proceedings against Wolfgang Clement , focus.de , August 1, 2008
• Hannelore Kohl: The referee in the Clement case , FAZ , August 1, 2008