Wolfgang Schomburg

Wolfgang Schomburg ( born April 9, 1948 in Berlin -Spandau ) is a German jurist and was from November 2001 to November 2008, the first German judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. He is also a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania.

Life

Schomburg studied law at the Free University of Berlin, where, in 1971 his first state examination. The second state examination he passed in 1974.

Initially, he worked as a prosecutor and later as a judge in Berlin. During this time he was, inter alia, also seconded to the Bundestag in Bonn and Assistant Secretary at the Federal Prosecutor. Schomburg was between 1989 and 1991 justice minister in Berlin, and then worked as a lawyer from 1991 to 1995. From 1995 to 2001 he was Judge of the Supreme Court in Karlsruhe. In March 2009, Schomburg was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit.

He is a member of the Board of the German Society for the United Nations.