Ruth Leuze
Ruth Leuze (born July 11, 1936 in Heilbronn ) is a German lawyer and former state data protection officer in Baden-Württemberg .
Life
Ruth Leuze was born in 1936 as the daughter of a pastor in Heilbronn. She studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen and received her doctorate in 1962 with the thesis Collective agreement regulation of work readiness . From 1965 she was employed in the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg (from 1972 as Ministerialratin ). In 1979 she took a distance learning course in electronic data processing .
From March 1, 1980, she held the newly created office of the state commissioner for data protection in Baden-Württemberg. She spoke to the Federal Constitutional Court against the comparison of the population registers planned in the planned 1983 census ; the court prohibited this in its census ruling . After a conflict with Interior Minister Frieder Birzele , she resigned in 1996. This dispute preoccupied the courts for years and ended in 2004 with a partial success for Leuze.
From 1997 she worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart.
further activities
- From 1997 to 2003 she was a member of the EKD Council
- Synodal of the Synod of the EKD
- From 2004 to July 2013 member of the board of the Wüstenrot Foundation
Honors
- 1982 Fritz Bauer Prize
- 1984 Theodor Heuss Medal
Web links
- Ruth Leuze in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Lawyer Dr. Ruth Leuze. EKD, archived from the original on July 27, 2013 ; accessed on November 21, 2017 .
Individual evidence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leuze, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, data protection officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |