since April 2021 | President of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Courts of the European Union |
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since July 2014 | President of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) |
since 2013 | Member of the Board of the non-governmental organization “Projekt Chance”, an organisation that endorses the rehabilitation of juveniles and adolescents |
2011 - 2014 | Head of the Ministry of Justice of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Deputy Minister |
till 2011 | Member of the Board of the association of Judges and Prosecutors in Baden-Wuerttemberg |
2009 - 2011 | Vice-President of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart |
2004 - 2009 | Director of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Waiblingen |
2001 - 2004 | Judge at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Stuttgart, also Judge in the President’s Office |
1996 - 2001 | Judge in the criminal law section of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart, also Judge in the President’s Office |
1994 - 1995 | Research Assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) |
1991 - 1994 | Judge in the criminal law section of the Regional Court (Landgericht) of Stuttgart |
1990 - 1991 | Judge in the civil law section of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Stuttgart |
1989 - 1990 | Prosecutor at the public prosecution department of Stuttgart |
1988 | Second German State Examination in Law at Stuttgart |
1985 - 1988 | Judicial traineeship (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Karlsruhe; Research Assistant at the Institute for Public Law of the University of Freiburg |
1984 | First German State Examination in Law at Freiburg |
1979 - 1984 | Legal studies at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen |
1979 | A-levels (Abitur), Wuppertal |
April 5, 1960 | Born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia |