Maria Wersig

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Maria Wersig (2017)

Maria Wersig (born September 28, 1978 in Weimar ) is a German lawyer and social scientist who has taught at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences since 2015 . Wersig has been President of the German Association of Women Lawyers since September 2017 .

Wersig studied law and gender competence at the Free University of Berlin from 1998 to 2004 . In 2004 she passed the first state examination in law and then worked until 2006 as a research assistant in the research project “Spousal Maintenance and Social Law Subsidiarity Principle as Obstacles to Equality” at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. From March 2006 to September 2008 she was a specialist in family and gender equality policy for the parliamentary group of the party Die Linke and then until June 2009 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Social and Organizational Education at the University of Hildesheim . With a grant from the Hans Böckler Foundation , Wersig started work on a dissertation in Hildesheim, with which she - after a research stay at the Pace Law School (New York) in autumn 2010 and a renewed position as a research assistant - in February Received her doctorate in Hildesheim in 2013. The title of the paper was “Obstacles to Reforming Spouse Splitting . A historical-reconstructive investigation ”.

From summer 2013 to summer 2014, Wersig was an advisor to the general works council of DB Mobility Logistics before she took on a substitute professorship at the University of Hanover for one year in the 2014 winter semester . In September 2015 she took up a professorship for “Legal Foundations of Social Work ” in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the FH Dortmund.

Since 2009 Wersig was a member and from October 2013 chairwoman of the commission “Law of Social Security, Family Burden Equalization” of the German Association of Women Lawyers. In September 2017 she was elected chairman of the association.

Among other things, Wersig advocates the reform or abolition of Section 219a of the Criminal Code , which prohibits advertising for abortion.

Fonts (selection)

  • The long shadow of housewife marriage: the resistance to reform of the spouse splitting . Budrich, Opladen / Berlin / Toronto 2013, ISBN 978-3-8474-0085-1 (dissertation).
  • Cases relating to the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG): an introduction to the theory and practice of anti-discrimination law in 23 cases . UTB, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8252-4870-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Prof. Dr. Maria Wersig. Deutscher Juristinnenbund, accessed on March 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e curriculum vitae. Fachhochschule Dortmund, accessed on March 21, 2018 .
  3. ^ Maria Wersig: Freedom of information on termination of pregnancy . ( weser-kurier.de [accessed on March 21, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Dinah Riese: Ban on advertising for abortion: Help is prosecuted . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 28, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 21, 2018]).
  5. ^ ZDF interview: Prof. Maria Wersig on abortion information. Fachhochschule Dortmund, accessed on March 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wersig, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar