Michael Eichberger

Michael Eichberger (born June 23, 1953 in Würzburg ) is a German lawyer and former judge of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life

After graduating from high school in Mannheim in 1972 , he was a reserve officer candidate in the telecommunications force of the German Armed Forces. From 1974 he studied at the University of Mannheim jurisprudence and made his legal training from. From 1982 he was a research assistant and did his doctorate in Mainz . From 1984 he worked at the administrative court in Karlsruhe . He obtained his doctorate in 1985 on the subject of "The restriction of legal protection against administrative procedural acts". From 1986 he initially worked for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice . In 1989 he became a research assistant to Hans Hugo Klein at the Federal Constitutional Court. From 1992 he was again active as a judge at the Administrative Court in Karlsruhe and seconded to the Administrative Court in Baden-Württemberg . From 1993 to 1998 Eichberger was then a judge at the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg in the Senate for Building , Planning and Nature Conservation Law. In 1998 he became a judge at the Federal Administrative Court . At the Federal Administrative Court, he was initially a member of the Senate for Immigration and Asylum Law and, after 2002, the Senate for Road and Rail Planning, Land Consolidation, Tax and Tax Law. Since 2004 he has also been an honorary professor at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen .

On April 7, 2006, Eichberger was unanimously elected judge of the Federal Constitutional Court by the Federal Council to succeed Dieter Hömig at the suggestion of the CDU . From April 25, 2006 to July 16, 2018, he was a member of the Federal Constitutional Court as a judge of the First Senate. He was followed by Henning Radtke after. On August 1, 2018, the Federal President awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit with a star and shoulder ribbon .

Michael Eichberger is married and has four children. He lives in Ladenburg .

Works (selection)

• The restriction of legal protection against administrative procedural acts. A contribution to the dogmatics, interpretation and constitutionality of § 44a VwGO. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-428-06060-1 .

Web links

• Website of Michael Eichberger at the University of Tübingen
• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Federal Constitutional Court

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of the awards from August 1, 2018. bundespraesident.de, August 1, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2018 .