Garbiele Britz (born 1 October 1968) is a German

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

who is currently serving as a justice of the

Federal Constitutional Court The Federal Constitutional Court (german: link=no, Bundesverfassungsgericht ; abbreviated: ) is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany, established by the constitution or Basic Law () of Germany. Since its inc ...

and is a

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for

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and

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at the

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

. 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. She took up the post on 2 February 2011. Britz is married to Frankfurt local politician Bastian Bergerhoff (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). They have a son together.

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