Herta Däubler-Gmelin
Herta Däubler -Gmelin [- ' ɡme ː li ː n] ( born August 12, 1943 in Bratislava (German Pressburg ), Slovakia) is a German jurist and politician (SPD). She was from 1998 to 2002 Minister of Justice and belonged from 1972 to 2009 the German Bundestag.
Life and career
Herta Däubler -Gmelin is the daughter of former diplomats and Tübingen Mayor Hans Gmelin. Since 1969 she is married to Professor Wolfgang Däubler. They have two children.
After finishing high school in Tübingen Herta Däubler -Gmelin holds a degree in history, law and political science in Tübingen and Berlin. According to state law (1969 and 1974 ) and a labor law Promotion ( 1975) on the topic of educational leave for employees: a way of achieving the fundamental right to education? at the University of Bremen, where her husband served as a university lecturer in labor law since 1971, she worked as a lawyer, first in Stuttgart, then in Berlin, works. In 1995 she was appointed as an Honorary Professor and is a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Since October 2011 she has been a visiting professor at the Department of Systematic Theology at the RWTH Aachen.
Party
Däubler -Gmelin is a member of the SPD, in which it was from 1988 to 1997 Deputy National Chairman since 1965. She is also patron of the virtual local association ( VOV ).
Member of Parliament
From 1972 to 2009 she was a member of the German Bundestag, where she was from 1980 to 1983 Chairman of the Legal Committee and from 1983 to 1993, deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1994 to 1998 she was a spokesperson for the group policy and legal counsel of the SPD.
From 2002 to 2005 she was chairman of the Committee for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from 2005 to 2009 chairman of the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.
From 2008 to 2009 she was chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly in the Euro Europe.
Herta Däubler -Gmelin is drafted in 1998 as a directly elected MP for the constituency of Tübingen and otherwise always over the national list Baden- Württemberg in the Bundestag.
Däubler -Gmelin has announced not to run in 2009 for the Bundestag, so they resigned at the conclusion of the 16th legislature of the German Bundestag on 27 October 2009 from the Parliament.
Public offices
Her candidacy for the office of Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court, which was met with fierce resistance, especially the CDU / CSU, she moved back to the end of 1993 political debates.
On 27 October 1998 she was appointed Minister of Justice in the run by then- Chancellor Gerhard Schröder government. During her tenure she campaigned for a fundamental revision of the Civil Code in the law of obligations, which eventually actually entered into force on 1 January 2002. The revision of the law of obligations is one of the most comprehensive reforms of the Civil Code since its entry into force on 1 January 1900. The Civil Partnership Act 2001 came intercession of Däubler -Gmelin in force.
Following a campaign statement - it should have said the American President Bush wanted to distract with its foreign policy from domestic political problems that know one " since Adolf Nazi " - Däubler -Gmelin was after the 2002 elections and its own previous notice, not after the election more to apply for a minister, no longer taken into account in forming a government. She retired from the Federal Government on 22 October 2002.
Academic teaching
As an honorary professor Däubler -Gmelin is a lecturer at the Otto -Suhr -Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. She heads there mainly events in their areas of interest in International Relations and Human Rights. In recent semesters, she held major seminars on Transitional Justice, Responsibility to Protect and South Africa. In the winter semester 2011/2012 Herta Däubler -Gmelin has taken over the Hemmerle professor of the Institute of Catholic Theology at the RWTH Aachen.
Others
In SWR scene Bienzle and the secret witness in the 2001 Herta Däubler -Gmelin has a guest appearance in which she plays herself as Minister of Justice. A guest role as a choir director, she played in 1992 in A man for each key.
Däubler -Gmelin is the patron of the German Hospice and Palliative Association.
Together with the Leipzig constitutional and administrative Christoph Degenhart, she announced in a press conference the organization more democratic - its a board member it is - mid-April 2012, the representative of an alliance action before the Constitutional Court in the event that it is not a referendum on the European Stability Mechanism ( ESM should be ) and the European fiscal pact for tighter fiscal discipline in 25 of the 27 EU countries. On June 29 of the alliance was "Europe needs more democracy " submitted their completed application together with Degenhart.
In addition, it is committed to the German and European legal education and international understanding on the advisory board of ELSA Germany eV
Awards
Cabinet
- Cabinet Schröder I