Otto Seidl

Otto Seidl (born December 11, 1931 in Munich ) is a German judge. Until 1998 he was Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court .

After completing his legal training and doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Seidl joined the Bavarian judicial service in 1960 , where he worked in various positions as a judge and public prosecutor . In 1969 Seidl was appointed judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court, in which office he worked until 1978. He was also a professional judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court .

In 1978 Seidl, who did not belong to any political party, was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice; from 1986 he worked as a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Seidl belonged to the first senate there, from 1995 as its chairman and vice-president of the court until he retired in 1998. The successor to his post was Hans-Jürgen Papier . Responsible Seidl was at the Federal Constitutional Court for the processing of cases in the areas of land and expropriation law , the right of open property issues, environmental protection law, the child support law , the copyright , patent and trademark law , the law of succession as well as the land transport legislation . In the crucifix decision , Seidl and the judges Söllner and Haas denied the violation of religious freedom by placing a cross in Bavarian classrooms within a special vote.

In 1998 Seidl was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and also received the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Web links

• Press release No. 78/2011 of the BVerfG of December 9, 2011 on Seidl's 80th birthday