Helga Oltrogge

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Helga Oltrogge b. Grütter (born June 3, 1941 in Bolkenhain , Lower Silesia ; † March 2, 2020 in Celle , Lower Saxony ) was a German lawyer . In 1989 she became the first woman in Germany to hold the office of President of the Higher Regional Court .

Life

Oltrogge studied law in Göttingen and Hamburg from 1960 to 1965 and entered the Lower Saxony judiciary in 1971 after completing his legal clerkship. From 1977 to 1980 she was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe as a research assistant . She was then appointed judge at the Higher Regional Court and worked in a criminal division at the Higher Regional Court in Celle .

In 1983 she moved to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice by way of secondment and at the same time appointed presiding judge at the regional court as head of department . From 1987 she was chairwoman of a civil chamber of the Hanover regional court , in 1988 she became the presiding judge at the higher regional court in Celle, where she chaired a criminal senate.

On November 10, 1989 - one day after the fall of the wall - Helga Oltrogge was by the then conservative Lower Saxony State Government appointed as President of the force also as a conservative, by far the largest Lower Saxony Higher Regional Court in Celle.

This was considered an experiment, but has since led to women being offered leadership positions in the judiciary across Germany. In 2008, four of the 24 German higher regional courts were already headed by women, currently (2018) there are ten, including two of the three Lower Saxony higher regional courts.

From 1994 Helga Oltrogge was also Vice President of the Lower Saxony State Court of Justice .

Before and after her retirement in 2006, she volunteered in many ways, but had to withdraw from the public early for health reasons.

family

Helga Oltrogge was married to the chairman of a civil chamber at the Hanover regional court . Her brother ran the printing and publishing house Grütter .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henriette Heinbostel, occasionally named as OLG President in Schleswig from 1957, is a literary invention .
  2. ↑ On the academic staff of the Federal Constitutional Court, cf. Stefan Jehle, The Secret Third Senate in Karlsruhe, Stuttgarter Zeitung from January 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Oliver Gätz, "Oltrogge's appointment made waves", Cellesche Zeitung of June 13, 2010
  4. ^ Handbook of Justice 2008/2009, ISBN 978-3-7685-0907-7
personal data
SURNAME Oltrogge, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grütter, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the OLG Celle
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolkenhain , Lower Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd 2020
Place of death Celle , Lower Saxony