Birthname: | Gabriele Britz |
Office: | Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany |
Nominator: | SPD |
Term Start: | 2 February 2011 |
Predecessor: | Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt |
Birth Date: | 1968 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Seeheim-Jugenheim, West Germany |
Garbiele Britz (born 1 October 1968) is a German jurist who is currently serving as a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court and is a professor for Public law and European Union law at the University of Giessen.[1] [2]
On 17 December 2010 she was elected by the Bundesrat on the proposal of the SPD to succeed Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, who retired from the first Senate in January 2011, as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.[3] She took up the post on 2 February 2011.[4] Britz is married to Frankfurt local politician Bastian Bergerhoff (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). They have a son together.[5] [6]