1. Brigitte Zypries was born on 16 November 1953 and is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party.
15 Facts About Brigitte Zypries
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Brigitte Zypries was Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 2002 to 2009 and State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1998 to 2002.
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Brigitte Zypries studied law at the University of Giessen from 1972 to 1977, and took her first legal state exam in 1978.
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In 2003, Brigitte Zypries represented the German government before the Federal Constitutional Court when the Free Democratic Party challenged a German law allowing authorities to eavesdrop on conversations in private homes.
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The court said the EU idea was compatible with Germany's constitution, but that the law drafted by Brigitte Zypries was sloppily written and did not go far enough in framing the leeway offered to prosecutors by the European Arrest Warrant.
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When German economics minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg decided to outsource the drafting of new bankruptcy legislation in 2009, Brigitte Zypries criticized that Guttenberg wasted taxpayers' money and that it was the responsibility of her ministry, not his, to oversee the preparation of the legislation.
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Brigitte Zypries explained that the US government had made clear to her that it would neither arrest nor hand over the agents.
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In 2009, Brigitte Zypries led the resistance to the Google Books Library Project in Germany.
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Between 2009 and 2013, Brigitte Zypries served on the German Bundestag's Committee on the Election of Judges, which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
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In June 2016, Brigitte Zypries announced that she would not stand in the 2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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From 2019 to 2023, Brigitte Zypries served as ombudsperson for BDIU, the national association of Germany's credit management, debt collection and debt purchase sector.
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Since 2023, Brigitte Zypries has been serving as ombudsperson at German private credit bureau Schufa.
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Brigitte Zypries is considered a proponent of regulating more tightly access to Internet platforms such as Google, Facebook, Amazon.
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Brigitte Zypries is a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which advocates for democratic reformation of the United Nations.
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On 3 June 2007, Brigitte Zypries caused some controversy by saying at a meeting of G8 justice ministers in Munich that it should be assumed that missing British child Madeleine McCann was abducted by a gang that passes on children to be abused.