Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff

Gertrude Luebbe -Wolff ( born January 31, 1953 in Weitensfeld in Carinthia ) is effective April 2002 Judge of the Constitutional Court and in this position successor by Jutta Limbach.

Life

After studying law at the University of Bielefeld, the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg and Harvard Law School, she received her doctorate in 1980 in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1979 to 1987 she was a research assistant in Bielefeld, in 1987, the habilitation was followed for the subjects of public law, constitutional history, modern history and philosophy of law. In the years 1988 to 1992, Lubbe -Wolff was head of the water conservation office in Bielefeld, after they accepted an appointment as professor of public law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bielefeld. In 2000, Lubbe -Wolff was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the most prestigious German science prize awarded. On 15 March 2002 she was chosen by the Federal Constitution to judge; since April 10, 2002 Lubbe -Wolff is a member of the second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court. Their term of office will expire on April 9, 2014.

She is married to the philosopher Michael Wolff and has four children. Her father Hermann and her sister Weyma Luebbe have also been appointed to philosophical professorships in Zurich and Leipzig. Her sister Anna Luebbe is a professor of procedural law and extrajudicial conflict resolution at the University of Fulda.

Awards and Honors

• 2000: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• 2012: Hegel Prize of the city of Stuttgart