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Lerke Osterloh (born September 29, 1944 in Wüsting -Holle near Oldenburg ) is a German tax law scholar and was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court from 1998 to 2010 .

Life

Lerke Osterloh was born as the daughter of the pastor and later Minister of Culture of Schleswig-Holstein Edo Osterloh and his wife Gertrud, née Wilmanns . Osterloh studied law in Kiel , Munich and Hamburg . After passing the first state examination in 1969 , Osterloh was a research assistant and assistant at the University of Hamburg from 1972 to 1978 . During this time she laid in 1975, the second state examination and was in 1978 also in Hamburg with a thesis on the principle of ownership victim compensation in civil law and public law doctorate .

From 1979 to 1989 she worked as assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin , where in 1989 with a thesis on laws binding and typing leeway in the application of tax laws habilitated .

A teaching position at the University of Heidelberg was followed in 1990 by a professorship for public law and tax law at the University of Trier ; from 1993 she was university professor for these subjects at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In addition to her publications on tax law , her work on equality is also of importance .

From October 1998 she was a member of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court . Elected to the court as a candidate of the SPD , she was counted in the Second Senate together with Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff and Michael Gerhardt of the more left- wing liberal wing. Osterloh was responsible for tax law. As a rapporteur, she developed the principles of the ruling on pension taxation of March 6, 2002.

Osterloh's twelve-year term of office and thus her membership in the Federal Constitutional Court ended on November 16, 2010. Monika Hermanns succeeded her judge on the same day .

Osterloh is married without children and lives in Berlin.

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