Helga Seibert

Helga Seibert ( born January 7, 1939 in Witzenhausen, † 12 April 1999 in Munich) was from 1989 to 1998 Judge of the Constitutional Court.

Seibert studied English and French at the Foreign and Interpretation Institute in Germersheim and law at the universities of Marburg and Berlin. In 1964 she passed the first state examination and spent a year studying at the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and from 1966 to 1967 at Yale Law School. After her second State examination in 1970, she worked as a lecturer at the working party legal nature of the SPD parliamentary group and then a researcher at the Federal Constitutional Court ( Bundesverfassungsgericht ). From 1974 to 1989 she worked in the Federal Ministry of Justice. On 28 November 1989 she was appointed Judge of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court. She was the fifth woman to be elected to the German Federal Constitutional Court. In 1998, she retired for health reasons from the service.

Seibert was a member of the first Senate of the court. Your department mainly dealt with family law, including issues of naming rights, the personal law, the Transsexuals Act and the Child and Youth Welfare Law.

She coined the case law on the constitutional review of family law standards and gained merit in the completion of the case law on the enforcement of the equality of illegitimate and legitimate children, the position of the unmarried father in adoption of the child, the illegitimate child of the claim against the mother naming the father and the name change for transsexuals.

As one of the few women she was still absorbed in his lifetime in the book Women in Law. Shortly before her death, she was honored by the Humanist Union with the Fritz Bauer Prize. The citation read:

The ceremony for the awards ceremony on April 30, 1999, she did not live.