Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck

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Emmi Agathe Karola Margarete Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck (born August 7, 1912 in Berlin-Lankwitz , † August 18, 1977 in Münsingen - Apfelstetten ) was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life and education

Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck, daughter of a lawyer in the Prussian Ministry of Justice, graduated from high school in 1931. After studying law at the universities of Berlin , Königsberg , Göttingen and Heidelberg , Wiltraut von Brünneck passed the first state examination in 1939. She was then drafted into the Reich Labor Service and worked as a military assistant in the air defense from 1939 to 1941 . During the Nazi era , she was a member of the Nazi women's association , wrote programmatic articles in National Socialist magazines ("The tasks of women in law", "The industrial worker in law") and discussed the position of women as "legal guardians" in the " Volksgemeinschaft ". She praised the "closeness to reality" of the National Socialist ideology, which corresponds to the "nature" of women. After working as an assistant to one of the crown lawyers of the National Socialist legal view, Wolfgang Siebert , at the Friedrich Wilhelms University (later the Humboldt University) in Berlin , she moved to the Reich Ministry of Justice in 1943 as a member of the government and took on a position as a speaker.

After 1945 von Brünneck was a judge at the Sangerhausen District Court and later at the Merseburg District Court. Since 1947 the civil servant worked for the Ministry of Justice of the State of Hesse, where she was promoted to Ministerialratin 1953 . In 1963 she moved to the Hessian State Chancellery.

In the same year the ministerial director was elected by the Federal Council as judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, of which she was a member of the First Senate as the successor to Judge Erna Scheffler from September 1, 1963 until her death. In 1965 she married Hans Georg Rupp , who was also a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, but in the Second Senate. Her successor in 1977 was the judge Gisela Niemeyer .

Rupp-von Brünneck deviated several times from the Senate majority in decisions and drafted special opinions together with other judges or alone

Rupp-von Brünneck was a member of the German Association of Women Lawyers .

Publications

  • The Constitution of the State of Hesse , 1954.
  • Fundamental rights in everyday legal life , 1970.
  • Constitution and Responsibility , Collected Scriptures; published posthumously 1983, ISBN 978-3-7890-0856-6

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck. In: City of Karlsruhe. 2015, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Fabian Michl, Red Robes, White Vests? The National Socialist Past of Judges at the Federal Constitutional Court, In: FAZ from 13 August 2020
  3. ↑ see below a. BVerfGE 30, 173 , 218 ff. - Mephisto ; BVerfGE 39, 1 - termination of pregnancy ; BVerfGE 42, 143 , 154 ff. - Limits of constitutional review of decisions of the specialized courts .

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personal data
SURNAME Rupp-von Brünneck, Wiltraut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rupp-von Brünneck, Emmi Agathe Karola Margarete Wiltraut (full name); von Brünneck, Wiltraut (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lankwitz
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1977
Place of death Münsingen