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5 unusual facts about Federal Constitutional Court of Germany


Chaos Computer Club

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany has ruled that the police may only use such programs for telephony wiretapping, and for no other purpose, and that this restriction should be enforced through technical and legal means.

Legal aspects of transsexualism

In July 2008, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled that a transsexual woman who transitioned to female after having been married to a woman for more than 50 years could remain married to her wife and change her legal gender to female.

Mounir el-Motassadeq

On February 7, 2006, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ordered an early release of Motassadeq.

Peter Gorski

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that Gründgens' personal freedom was more important than the freedom of art.

Wolfgang Fürniß

After Roman Herzog moved to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (“Bundesverfassungsgericht”), Fuerniss continued to worked under Lothar Spaeth in the State of Baden-Württemberg.


Andreas Paulus

On February 25, 2010, Paulus was nominated to succeed Hans-Jürgen Papier on the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem

In 1999 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) nominated the politically unaffiliated scholar Hoffman-Riem as judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was subsequently elected by the Bundesrat.


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