Marion Eckertz-Höfer

Marion Eckertz-Höfer (born November 23, 1948 in Oldenburg in Oldenburg ) is a German lawyer and former President of the Federal Administrative Court .

biography

Marion Eckertz-Höfer is the daughter of the art teacher Rolf Erasmus Höfer (1910–1992), who was active as a painter and graphic artist. Her family's roots are in Saxony . One of the famous artist brothers Dinglinger of the Dresden Baroque era is an ancestor. Eckertz-Höfer grew up in Oldenburg and Duisburg .

After studying law and economics in Saarbrücken and Tübingen , Eckertz-Höfer worked for six years in the higher judicial service in Baden-Württemberg , first as a criminal judge at the Heidelberg district court , then as a public prosecutor in Mannheim and finally as a civil judge at the Heidelberg district court .

In autumn 1983 she was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe in the department of Federal Constitutional Judge Helmut Simon as a research assistant until February 1988 .

In July 1988, during the first term of office of Prime Minister Björn Engholm , she switched to the newly formed Ministry of Women of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, headed by Gisela Böhrk . Brigitte Zypries was her successor as a research assistant at the BVerfG . After German reunification , she worked from 1991 to 1993 as personal representative of the then Schleswig-Holstein Interior Minister Hans Peter Bull on the constitutional commission of the Federal Council on the reform of the Basic Law .

In October 1993 she became a judge at the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin (initially under Everhardt Franßen , from October 2002 under Eckart Hien ) , after moving to Leipzig in 2002 , she also moved there privately. From 1995 to 2002 she also held the function of the first equal opportunities officer at the BVerwG . After serving as presiding judge since January 20, 2001, and most recently as Vice-President for four and a half years since October 2002, she was elected as the new President of the court on June 1, 2007 as the successor to Eckart Hien, who was retiring. Eckertz-Höfer was the first woman in this position. She also remained chairwoman of the 1st Senate responsible for immigration and asylum law . Her successor as Vice President was Michael Hund . She retired on January 31, 2014.

Eckertz-Höfer is one of the initiators of the Art and Justice Association in the Federal Administrative Court . In 2017 she was appointed to the Limbach Commission , the advisory commission in connection with the return of cultural assets that were confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution, in particular from Jewish property .

Publications (selection)

• Contributions in the alternative commentary on the Basic Law , 3rd edition 2001 (on Art. 3 Para. 2, 3, Art. 117)
• Editor of the publications on equality for women (together with Jutta Limbach and Heide Pfarr ).
• "From the good judge": ethos, independence, professionalism. (Lecture on the occasion of the opening of the summer semester 2009), German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer 2009.

Web links

• BVerwG press release no. 10/2014 of January 31, 2014 on entering retirement
• Press release of the BVerwG No. 34/2007 of May 31, 2007 on the change of president
• Literature by Marion Eckertz-Höfer in the Southwest German Library Network (SWB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ President of the Federal Administrative Court Marion Eckertz-Höfer in retirement passed press release 10/2014 of the Federal Administrative Court of January 31, 2014
2. ^ Eva-Maria Kasimir: No successor at the Federal Administrative Court yet. l-iz.de, January 29, 2014, accessed on January 31, 2014