Renate Jaeger | |
---|---|
Judge of the European Court of Human Rights | |
In office 1 November 2004 –30 December 2010 | |
Succeeded by | Angelika Nussberger |
Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany | |
In office 24 March 1994 –31 October 2004 | |
Succeeded by | Reinhard Gaier |
Personal details | |
Born | Darmstadt,Hesse,Germany | 30 December 1940
Alma mater | Cologne,Munich,Lausanne |
Renate Jaeger (born 30 December 1940) is a German lawyer and a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights. Her term at the Court expired on 30 December 2010.
Jaeger was born in Darmstadt,a city in the state of Hesse,Germany,and studied law at Cologne,Munich and Lausanne. In 1968,after completing her legal training,she became a judge at the Sozialgericht of Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Sozialgericht ('social court') is the lowest of three courts dealing with social security matters,the higher courts being the Landessozialgericht (state level) and national Bundessozialgericht (Federal Social Court of Germany).
Between 1970 and 1971,Jaeger was seconded as a research assistant to the Bundessozialgericht,and in 1974 was promoted to sit on the Landessozialgericht for North Rhine-Westphalia,remaining there until 1987. From 1976 to 1979,she was again seconded as a research assistant,this time to the Bundesverfassungsgericht,the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In 1986,she was promoted to Presiding Judge at the Landessozialgericht,and in 1987 was called to join the Bundessozialgericht.
As well as being a member of the Federal Social Court,Jaeger was appointed in 1988 to sit on the State Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1991 to 1994,she took on a lectureship at the University of Münster. On 24 March 1994,she was appointed a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in the First Senate. She was also appointed Liaison Officer between the Court and the Council of Europe's Venice Commission.
On 28 April 2004,Jaeger was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to be a judge on the European Court of Human Rights,based in Strasbourg,France,with effect from 1 November that year. On 14 October,she received an honorary doctorate by the University of Münster,and that Autumn was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband). She was succeeded at the Federal Constitutional Court by Reinhard Gaier. On 2 July 2009,she was elected vice-president of one of the Court's Sections. Her term at the Court ended on 30 December 2010,and she was succeeded by Angelika Nussberger.
Jaeger is a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Deutschland Hilft,an alliance of German emergency aid organisations.
Renate Elly Künast is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens party. She was the Minister of Consumer Protection,Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005 and subsequently served as chairwoman of her party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
The judiciary of Germany is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in Germany.
Udo Di Fabio is a German jurist. He is a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany,Germany's highest court,where he served as a member of the Second Senate from December 1999 until December 2011.
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party and a prominent advocate of human rights in Germany and Europe. Within the FDP,she is a leading figure of the social-liberal wing. She served as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 1992 to 1996 in the cabinet of Helmut Kohl and again in the second Merkel cabinet from 2009 to 2013. In 2013,the new German government announced Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger's candidacy for the office of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
The Heidelberg University Faculty of Law,located in Heidelberg,Germany,is one of the original four constituent faculties of Heidelberg University. Founded in 1386 by Rupert I,Elector Palatine,it is the oldest law school in Germany.
Klaus Tolksdorf is a German legal scholar who served as the eighth President of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany from 2008 to 2014 as well as an ad litem judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Juliane Kokott is the German Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and Professor at the University of St. Gallen.
Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff is a German academic and senior judge. She served as a justice of the second senate of the Bundesverfassungsgericht from 2002 to 2014,having succeeded Jutta Limbach in this position.
Bärbel Höhn is a German politician for Alliance '90/The Greens. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 national elections,after serving as State Minister of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2005.
Hanna-Renate Laurien was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Angelika Helene Anna Nußberger is a German professor of law and scholar of Slavic studies,and was the judge in respect of Germany at the European Court of Human Rights from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2019;from 2017 to 2019 she was the Court’s Vice-President. She had previously been Vice-Rector of the University of Cologne. Currently she is Director of the Institute of Eastern European Law and Comparative Law of the University of Cologne.
Susanne Baer,FBA is a German legal scholar and one of the 16 judges of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Baer has been the William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School since winter 2010 and is also a professor of public law and gender studies with the law faculty at Humboldt University of Berlin and its dean of academic affairs.
The Federal Constitutional Court is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany,established by the constitution or Basic Law of Germany. Since its inception with the beginning of the post-World War II republic,the court has been located in the city of Karlsruhe,which is also the seat of the Federal Court of Justice.
Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019,serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that,she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth and,from 28 September 2017,as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs,both until 14 March 2018.
Richterwahlausschuss is the name of bodies in the German judicial system that elect the judges of the ordinary courts and the special courts on the federal level (Bundesebene) and in some cases also on the level of the states (Landesebene).
Svenja Schulze is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She serves as Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development in the cabinet of Olaf Scholz. Schulze has been serving as member of the German Bundestag since 2021,representing North Rhine-Westphalia.
Johannes Vogel is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 until 2013 and since 2017.
Günter Krings is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2002.
Doris König is a German judge,jurisprudent and public law scholar who serves as the Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
The Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia is the constitutional court of the most populous German state NRW. Art. 76 of the state constitutions authorizes and establishes the court. In its history the method of composition has been changed multiple times.