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Ruth Herz (born October 27, 1944 in Jerusalem ) is a German judge , specialist author and actress .

Life

Ruth Herz is the daughter of a Jewish lawyer from Breslau who fled the Nazis to Palestine in 1933. Your mother is Israeli . In the post-war years, the parents returned to Germany.

After completing a degree in interpreting ( French and German ), she studied law in Geneva , Munich and Cologne . After graduating from university and passing the state exams , she was awarded her doctorate cum laude .

Herz has been a judge since 1974 and has published several specialist books. In 1998 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. It does well in establishing the victim-offender balance , in which juvenile convicts who have harmed other people in a crime sit down with the victim and two supervisors to come to terms with the injustice committed. Herz has two children, including the architect Manuel Herz , and three grandchildren. In 1995 her first husband, Thomas Aage Herz , who was a professor of sociology at the University of Siegen, died. Today she is married to Gabriel Gorodetsky , an Israeli historian.

From September 2001 to September 2005 was as lead actress (Presiding Judge Dr. Ruth heart) in the RTL - Court show the juvenile court to see. She is also an appointed expert in criminal law at the Council of Europe .

Herz left her TV judge's seat in September 2005 and followed a call from Oxford University where she led a research project on media and justice.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Ruth Herz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d A courageous judge: Ruth Herz , welt.de, May 26, 2007
  2. ↑ Juvenile judge Herz tells: Very personal , HaGalil
  3. Ruth Herz: Right personal: a juvenile judge tells, CH Beck, 2006, pp. 39–41 [1]
  4. a b Thomas Aage Herz , socziologie.de
  5. Ruth Herz Judge Playing Judge Ruth Herz: Reflections on the Performance of Judicial Authority in: Volume 14 (2010) Law's Theatrical Presence, p. 201 [2] , PDF file, p. 24
  6. a b Dr. Ruth Herz leaves "The Juvenile Court" , quota meter , August 4, 2005
  7. That's what judge Ruth Herz does today , tvmovie.de