Margarete von Galen

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Von Galen 2014 in Frankfurt am Main

Margarete Countess von Galen , b. von Wedel is a German lawyer . She is the widowed mother of four children and lives in Berlin.

Family and professional career

Margarete von Galen is a daughter of the merchant Wedigo von Wedel (1924–2017) and Margarete geb. from Hindenburg. Her paternal great-grandfather was District Administrator Karl von Wedel-Piesdorf and her maternal great-grandfather was President Paul von Hindenburg . She studied law with a focus on white-collar crime in Heidelberg , Lausanne , Bonn and Munich .

In 2004 she received her doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin .

She has been a lawyer since 1983 and a specialist lawyer for criminal law since 1999 . Von Galen works as a freelance attorney since 2000 in a law firm she co-founded in Berlin . Her main interests are in the field of criminal law , the economic Criminal Law , in the field of administrative law and legal issues for prostitution .

Politics and functions

In 1989 von Galen ran for the office of Senator for Family, Youth and Women within the 'Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection' (the forerunner of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Berlin ) and was only barely defeated by the later Senator Anne Klein .

From 2004 to 2009 von Galen was President of the Berlin Bar Association . She was the first woman in this office.

Margarete von Galen has been a member of the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin since July 3, 2014 . She was nominated by the parliamentary group of the Greens in the Berlin House of Representatives .

Public discussion

Von Galen, author of the legal questions on prostitution under the Prostitution Act of 2002, defended the law in 2013 against the fierce criticism of Alice Schwarzer and the appeal she initiated against prostitution . In an interview with Legal Tribune Online , she said it was undeniable that many women enjoyed prostitution voluntarily, and suffered not from prostitution itself, but from the social stigma that blacks are a major contributor to. She was one of the co-signers of the Appeal FOR Prostitution .

Fonts

  • Margarete von Galen: The legal situation of female refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany (= workbook ). Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-884021-08-7 .
  • Margarete Countess von Galen: Legal issues of prostitution. The Prostitution Act and its Effects . Beck Juristischer Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406510-05-1 (dissertation, University of Bern, 2004).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the von Galen lawyers website
  2. ↑ Fatina Keilani: Champion for the Right. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 6, 2004, accessed November 15, 2013 .
  3. ↑ House of Representatives elects constitutional judges. July 3, 2014, accessed January 3, 2015 .
  4. ^ Reform of the Prostitution Act: "A food that has been found for moral apostles". Interview with Margarete von Galen. In: Legal Tribune Online . November 8, 2013, accessed November 15, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Galen, Margarete von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galen, Margarete Countess of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century