1. Jutta Limbach was a German jurist and politician.
15 Facts About Jutta Limbach
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Jutta Limbach was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and served as President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1994 to 2002, the first woman in this office.
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Jutta Limbach's grandmother Elfriede Ryneck was a member of the Weimar National Assembly and the Reichstag, and her father Ernst Ryneck served as mayor of Pankow after 1945.
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Jutta Limbach passed the first and the second state law examination in 1958 and 1962.
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Under Walter Momper as mayor, Jutta Limbach was the senator for Justice in Berlin from 1989 to 1994.
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In 1994, Jutta Limbach was appointed to the position of vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, the same year she became president, succeeding Roman Herzog.
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Jutta Limbach was the first female president of the court and served in this role until she reached the age limit of 68 in 2002.
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Jutta Limbach then became president of the German non-profit organization Goethe-Institut.
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Jutta Limbach was a member of the committee of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
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In 2005 and 2006 Jutta Limbach was a member of the Group of Wise Persons who was tasked by the Council of Europe to develop strategies how to manage the workload of the European Court of Human Rights.
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In 2013 Jutta Limbach was awarded the Mercator Visiting Professorship for Political Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen's NRW School of Governance.
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From 2003, Jutta Limbach headed the so-called Jutta Limbach Commission, a panel convened by the German government to give recommendations on restitution claims regarding art works stolen or purchased under duress by the Nazis; the panel's decisions are not legally binding but are intended as a form of mediation in disputes over provenance.
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Jutta Limbach held honorary degrees from the Masaryk University, University of Basel, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University College London, York University and University of Bremen.
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Jutta Limbach has received numerous awards, including the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold of the Republic of Austria and the Louise-Schroeder-Medal.
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Jutta Limbach died on 10 September 2016, aged 82, in Berlin.