Maria Elisabeth Geyser

Maria Elisabeth Geyser (born November 6, 1912 in Münster / Westphalia ; † June 26, 2008 ) was a German judge.

In 1935 and 1939 she passed her two state law exams in Munich, after which she worked in foreign exchange control and labor administration until 1945. After 1945 she first became a department head at the Munich pension office, and in 1955 she was seconded to the Federal Social Court as a research assistant. In 1959/60 there was a brief secondment to the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs .

In 1960 she became a judge at the State Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia , and in 1965 she became a judge at the Federal Social Court . On May 20, 1977 Geyser was appointed presiding judge at the Federal Social Court. She took over the 4th Senate responsible for workers' pension insurance and headed it until she retired at the end of January 1980. Geyser spent her retirement in Wohnen am Schloß at Menzingerstr.1 Munich .

She was named after Dr. Maria Schwarz is the second woman to hold the positions of judge or presiding judge at the Federal Social Court.

Geyser was the daughter of the famous philosopher Joseph Geyser and granddaughter of the painter and engraver Carl Leonhard Becker .

Web links

• Media information No. 38/07 of the Federal Social Court
• Media information on death