Jutta Limbach

Jutta Limbach (2003)

Jutta Limbach , née Jutta Ryneck (born March 27, 1934 in Berlin-Neukölln ; † September 10, 2016 there ), was a German legal scholar and professor at the Free University of Berlin , a politician ( SPD ) and Berlin Senator for Justice. From 1994 to 2002 she was President of the Federal Constitutional Court and from 2002 to 2008 President of the Goethe Institute .

Life

Jutta Ryneck's grandmother Elfriede Ryneck was a member of the Weimar National Assembly and a member of the Reichstag for the SPD, her father Erich Ryneck (1899-1976) was also a Social Democrat and from 1946 to 1948 mayor of the East Berlin district of Pankow , before he moved with his family to West Berlin and resigned from office. She attended girls' high school and was head girl. She completed her law studies in 1958 with the 1st  state examination , the legal clerkship in 1962 with the 2nd state examination. In that year she joined the SPD. From 1963 to 1966 she was an academic adviser at the Law Faculty of the Free University of Berlin . In 1966, she was there with a thesis on the theory and reality of the GmbH a doctorate in law doctorate . Her doctoral supervisor was the lawyer and legal sociologist Ernst Eduard Hirsch .

In 1970 their son, the later lawyer Benjamin Limbach , was born. In 1971, she completed her habilitation with a thesis on social action, thinking and knowledge in the judgment of a judge .

In 1972 Limbach accepted a professorship for civil law at the Free University of Berlin. In 1982 she was visiting professor in Bremen . Among other things, she was on the advisory board of the Kontakt-Контакты e. V. - Association for contacts to countries of the former Soviet Union (Berlin) active on a voluntary basis.

She was married to the lawyer Peter Limbach and had three children. Limbach's urn was buried in the closest family circle at the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

Services

From 1987 to 1989 she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Issues at the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth . From 1987 Limbach was a board member of the Society for Legislation and most recently a member of the advisory board. In 1992 and 1993 she was a member of the Joint Constitutional Commission of the Bundesrat and the German Bundestag .

After Walter Momper's election victory in the Berlin House of Representatives in 1989 , she was appointed Senator for Justice in Berlin. She held this office until 1994. Immediately after taking office, she had to deal with hunger strikes by imprisoned terrorists of the Red Army Faction . Through her position of understanding - she met two imprisoned women for a conversation - she contributed significantly to the settlement. After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , she was in charge of the criminal prosecution of the former GDR heads of state because of the order to shoot at the inner-German border .

In March 1994 she was initially appointed Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court and Chairman of the Second Senate; in the same year she was appointed President of the court by the Bundestag as the successor to Roman Herzog . She headed the Federal Constitutional Court until she reached the age limit in 2002.

From 2002 to 2008 she was President of the Goethe Institute .

Since 2003 she has been chairwoman of the “Advisory Commission in connection with the return of cultural assets seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially from Jewish property”, also known as the Limbach Commission , which, as a state institution, deals with looted art and its return to the heirs.

She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and until 2007 chairwoman of the German Language Council , on whose behalf she published the book “Emigrated Words”. Since 2009 Limbach was the chairwoman of the media council of the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg.

In July 2007, Jutta Limbach was elected to the University Council of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald for six years , and since 2011 she has been the Chair of the University Council of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

Awards

• 1998: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1998: Honorary doctorate from the University of Basel
• 1999: Appointed Honorary Bencher of the Gray's Inn
• 2000: Mercator professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• 2002: Federal Cross of Merit ( Grand Cross )
• 2002: Leibniz-Ring-Hannover
• 2002: Sharpest blade in the city of Solingen
• 2002: Honorary doctorate from the Erasmus University Rotterdam
• 2002: Honorary Doctorate from University College London
• 2003: Honorary Doctorate from York University
• 2003: Heinz Herbert Karry Prize
• 2004: Marie Juchacz plaque from the Arbeiterwohlfahrt
• 2005: Louise Schroeder Medal
• 2006: Humanism Prize from the German Association of Classical Philologists
• 2006: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 2008: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bremen
• 2009: Dorothea Schlözer Medal from the University of Göttingen
• 2011: Heinrich Albertz Peace Prize of Workers' Welfare (AWO)

Fonts

• The empirical normal types of the GmbH and their relationship to the postulate of rule and liability. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, DNB 481344845 (Dissertation FU Berlin, Faculty of Law, July 22, 1966, 128 pages).
  • also in the book trade as: Theory and Reality of the GmbH, The empirical normal types of the GmbH and their relationship to the postulate of rule and liability. (= Series of publications by the Institute for Legal Sociology and Legal Facts Research at the Free University of Berlin (West) , Volume 2), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, DNB 457435216
• Emigrated words . A selection of the most interesting contributions to the international call for proposals »Emigrated words«. In: Jutta Limbach, German Language Council , Goethe-Institut (Ed.): Words wander around the world . 3. Edition. Hueber, Ismaning 2008, ISBN 978-3-19-107891-1 (first edition: 2006, as a paperback by Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-62353-0 ).
• The scientist as a citizen and civil servant. The relationship between science and politics , Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0766-7 .
• Ute Gerhard , Jutta Limbach (ed.): Legal everyday life of women . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-11423-9 .
• True hyenas. Pauline Staegemann and her struggle for the political power of women . Dietz, Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-8012-0480-8 .

See also

• Senate Momper
• Senate Diepgen III

literature

• Karin ceilingbach: Jutta Limbach: a biography . Droste, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 978-3-7700-1158-2 .
• Uta Fölster , Christina Stresemann (Ed.): That's right, Jutta Limbach! Written for the President of the Federal Constitutional Court as a farewell . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-7982-0 .

Web links

Commons : Jutta Limbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Jutta Limbach  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Jutta Limbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Press release No. 28/2014 of the Federal Constitutional Court of March 26, 2014 on the 80th birthday of Limbach
• Estate BArch N 1837
• Nachlass BArch N 1837-BILD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The former President of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Jutta Limbach has passed away. In: Press release of the Federal Constitutional Court. September 12, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Susanne Höll: Pauline in the basement . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 18, 2013
3. ↑ Legal high-flyer. In: www.fu-berlin.de. December 18, 2006, accessed September 12, 2016 . 
4. ^ Justice Online: Benjamin Limbach .
5. ^ The Justice Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Dr. Benjamin Limbach is the new director of the University of Applied Sciences in Bad Münstereifel. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, July 1, 2014, accessed on September 12, 2016 . 
6. ^ University of Applied Sciences for the Administration of Justice North Rhine-Westphalia: Benjamin Limbach. The director of the Fachhochschule für Rechtspflege North Rhine-Westphalia, July 1, 2014, accessed on September 12, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Eva Marie von Münch: … thank you for the support. The Berlin Justice Senator advocates help instead of punishment. In: Die Zeit , No. 24/1989.
8. ↑ Hartmut Palmer: Jutta Courage . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1992 ( online ).
9. ↑ 10.5 Bundestag and Federal Constitutional Court. Elections of the members of the Federal Constitutional Court (as of December 11, 2013) (PDF) German Bundestag, p. 41; accessed on February 14, 2016.
10. ↑ Advisory Commission ( memento of January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), lostart.de, accessed on April 10, 2013
11. ^ MABB press release: Constituent meeting of the media council
12. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
13. ↑ Mercator Professorship 2009: Dr. Peter Scholl-Latour. Press release from the University of Duisburg-Essen, November 6, 2009.
14. ↑ Berlin, April 10, 2002: Federal President Rau hands over the certificates of appointment and discharge on the occasion of the change in the office of President and Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court. bundespraesident.de, accessed on April 10, 2013.
15. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jutta Limbach receives Dorothea Schlözer Medal from the University of Göttingen . , Science Information Service , December 4, 2009; Retrieved December 7, 2009
16. ↑ AWO awards Heinrich Albertz Peace Prize to Jutta Limbach . November 10, 2011.

predecessor	government office	successor
Ernst Mahrenholz	Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court 1994–1994	Johann Friedrich Henschel