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Prename: | Wiltraut |
Surname: | Brünneck (Rupp-von Brünneck) |
Profession: | Jurist; justice of the Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Birthday: | 08/07/1912 |
Place of birth: | Berlin |
Date of death: | 08/18/1977 |
Place of death: | Karlsruhe |
Married to: | Hans Georg Rupp |
Profession husband: | Justice of the Constitutional Court |
Education: | University studies (law) in Berlin, Königsberg, Göttingen, and Heidelberg; 1936 university degree, 1941 state examination |
Career: | 1941–43 assistant professor at the department of employment law, University of Berlin; 1943–45 senior civil servant at the land registry and inheritance law department, Reich Ministry of Justice; 1945–47 judge at the Sangershausen local court and the district court in Merseburg; from 1947 Hesse Ministry of Justice, 1953 senior civil servant; 1963–77 succeeds Erna Scheffler as judge at West Germany’s Constitutional Court |
Memberships: | 1937 women jurists group in the German Women’s Agency (Deutsches Frauenwerk) |
Biographical literature: | Hans-Peter Schneider, “Im Namen des Menschen. Über Leben und Wirken einer großen Richterin,” in Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck, *Verfassung und Verantwortung. Gesammelte Schriften und Sondervoten* (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1983), 1–46; “Rupp-von Brünnek, Wiltraut,” *Neue Deutsche Biographie* (http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz109138.html) |
Major works: | *Verfassung des Landes Hessen* (1954); *Die Grundrechte im juristischen Alltag* (Frankfurt/Main: Metzner, 1969) |
Links: | [Kurzbiografie, leo Baden-Würtemberg](http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/kgl_biographien/126351244/biografie) |