Lerke Osterloh

Lerke Osterloh ( born September 29, 1944 in Wüsting Hulda near Oldenburg ) is a German tax law scholar and was from 1998 to 2010 Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court.

Life

Lerke Osterloh, was born as the daughter of the pastor and later Minister of Culture of Schleswig- Holstein Edo Osterloh and his wife Gertrud, born Wilmann. After the first state examination 1969 was filed Osterloh 1972-1978 research assistant and assistant professor at the University of Hamburg. During this time she laid in 1975, the second state exam in 1978 and also received his doctorate in Hamburg with a thesis on the principle of ownership victim compensation in civil law and public law.

From 1979 to 1989 she served as Assistant Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where she habilitated in 1989 with a thesis on the law binding and typing discretion in the application of tax laws.

A teaching position at the University of Heidelberg in 1990 followed a call to a Chair of Public Law and Tax Law at the University of Trier; Since 1993 she has been a university professor for these subjects at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Of importance, in addition to their publications on tax and tax law also her work on equality.

From October 1998 she was a member of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court. As a candidate of the SPD elected to the court, it was attributed to the Second Senate along with Gertrude Luebbe -Wolff and Michael Gerhardt of the more left- wing liberal. Osterloh was responsible for the tax law. So they worked as rapporteur of the principles of the judgment to the pension tax of 6 March 2002.

The twelve -year term Osterloh and thus their membership in the Federal Constitutional Court ended on November 16, 2010. Succession on her judgeship came on the same day Monika Hermanns.

Osterloh is childless married.