Karin Graßhof

Karin Graßhof ( born June 25, 1937 in Kiel) was a judge of the Constitutional Court.

Graßhof studied at the universities of Kiel and Lausanne Law and earned his doctorate at the University of Kiel. Afterwards she worked as a judge at the district court in Kiel and Bonn. Between the activities of the regional courts she was two years in the Federal Ministry of Justice operates. 1975-1977 she was full-time member of the National Judicial Examination Office at the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia.

In 1984 she was elected Judge of the Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, where he was a member of a civil Senate. Two years later, in 1986, she became a judge of the Constitutional Court as a member of the Second Senate, in her department included, among other things, election law and election audit procedures. Their term of office ended after 12 years in October 1998. Successor to its position at the Federal Constitutional Court was Lerke Osterloh.

Your department comprised rapporteur option / choice examination procedure, nationality law, extradition law, forfeiture of basic rights. She was a judge, among others, participated in the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of 14 September 1989 on the exploitation of the diary of a prisoner; the decision concerning the five-percent hurdle in the first all-German election; with respect to the foreigners the right to vote in Schleswig -Holstein; the decision to § 218 of 28 May 1993; on the Maastricht judgment of 12 October 1993; the AWACS decision of 12 July 1994; the decision regarding the criminal liability of the GDR's foreign espionage of 15 May 1995; the decision to the wall protecting processes of 26 October 1996; the decisions on the admissibility of overhang mandates of 10 April 1997 and of 26 February 1998; and in the decision to launch the euro on 31 March 1998.

On 25 February 1999 Graßhof honorary professor at the University of Bonn. She serves on the editorial board of the Bonn comment to the Basic Law. Since 2000, she oversees the Digest of decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court, which in CF Müller ( publishing group Hüthig Jehle Rehm ) appears.

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