Jutta Limbach
| Jutta Limbach | |
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| President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany | |
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In office 30 June 1994 – 10 April 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Roman Herzog |
| Succeeded by | Hans-Jürgen Papier |
| Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany | |
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In office 24 March 1994 – 14 September 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Ernst Mahrenholz |
| Succeeded by | Johann Friedrich Henschel |
| Senator for Justice of Berlin | |
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In office 1989–1994 |
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| Preceded by | Rupert Scholz |
| Succeeded by | Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
27 March 1934 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 10 September 2016 (aged 82) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
Jutta Limbach (27 March 1934 – 10 September 2016) was a German jurist and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1994 to 2002, as the first woman in this office.
Born as Jutta Ryneck, Limbach grew up in Berlin. Her grandmother Elfriede Ryneck was a member of the Weimar National Assembly and the Reichstag, and her father Ernst Ryneck served as mayor of Pankow after 1945. Limbach studied law in Berlin and Freiburg. She passed the first and the second state law examination in 1958 and 1962. From 1963 to 1966 she worked as a research assistant at the law school of the Free University of Berlin and received her doctorate in law in 1966, with a thesis in legal sociology. She fulfilled the requirements to be appointed professor by the German educational system in 1971. In 1972, she was appointed professor for civil law, commercial law and legal sociology at the Free University. From 1987 to 1989, she was member of an academic advisory council at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
Under Walter Momper as mayor, Limbach was the senator for Justice in Berlin from 1989 to 1994. During her time in office, German prosecutors issued a warrant for the arrest of Erich Honecker after discovering written orders by the former East German leader for guards at the Berlin wall to shoot to kill people who were seeking to flee the country.
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