Jutta Limbach

Jutta Limbach
Limbach in 2003
President of the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
In office
14 September 1994 – 10 April 2002
Vice-President
Nominated bySPD
Appointed byBundestag
Preceded byRoman Herzog
Succeeded byHans-Jürgen Papier
Vice-President of the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
In office
24 March 1994 – 14 September 1994
President
Nominated bySPD
Appointed byBundestag
Preceded byErnst Mahrenholz
Succeeded byJohann Friedrich Henschel
Judge of the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
for the Second Senate
In office
24 March 1994 – 10 April 2002
Nominated bySPD
Appointed byBundestag
Preceded byErnst Gottfried Mahrenholz
Succeeded byGertrude Lübbe-Wolff
Senator for Justice of Berlin
In office
16 March 1989 – 24 March 1994
Governing Mayor
Preceded byRupert Scholz
Succeeded byLore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit
Personal details
Born
Jutta Ryneck

(1934-03-27)27 March 1934
Berlin-Neukölln, Berlin, Nazi Germany (now Germany)
Died10 September 2016(2016-09-10) (aged 82)
Berlin, Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Alma materFree University of Berlin
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Judge
  • Academic

Jutta Limbach (27 March 1934 – 10 September 2016) was a German jurist and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and served as President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1994 to 2002, the first woman in this office.