The OLG President

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The OLG President is the title of a 2007 publication about a fictional German lawyer named Henriette Heinbostel . Based on the Festschrift, the history of the emancipation of women lawyers in Germany should be shown as an example in order to appreciate the equal rights achieved in this area . The work was written by twenty women authors, including well-known lawyers such as Ruth Herz , Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt , Jutta Limbach and Heide Pfarr .

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The character Henriette Heinbostel was born in Greifswald in 1911 and began - influenced by her feminist grandmother - in the summer semester of 1931 to study law at the University of Greifswald . During her studies she met the lawyer Werner Heinbostel, whom she married in 1933. After seven semesters, she passed her legal traineeship with distinction in 1934 . After women were no longer admitted to the bar in 1935, she is the “official representative” of her husband, who was drafted into military service from 1939. In 1940 she met the also fictional lawyer Friedrich G. Nagelmann . The daughter Renate, born in 1940, comes from this relationship. The relationship is also mentioned in the book The True Constitutional Law. Between pleasure and performance. in honor of Friedrich Gottlob Nagelmann.

Immediately after the Second World War , Henriette Heinbostel went to the judicial service at the Berlin Regional Court , where she was appointed presiding judge in 1951. On October 1, 1957, she became the first woman in German legal history to be appointed President of the Higher Regional Court, namely the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court . In 1962 the divorce followed and in 1976 Henriette Heinbostel retired after 19 years as OLG president. She dies in 2004.

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The commemorative publication received mostly positive reviews in various legal journals such as the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift and the Deutsche Richterzeitung . The work was also discussed in the feature sections of national daily newspapers such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Tagesspiegel and the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Publications

  • Konstanze Görres-Ohde, Monika Nöhre , Anne-José Paulsen (eds.): The OLG President: Commemorative letter for Henriette Heinbostel . 2nd Edition. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1772-6 .

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