Helga Seibert (7 January 1939 – 12 April 1999) was a German

judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility an ...

. She was a judge in the

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. She was born in

Witzenhausen Witzenhausen is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany. It was granted town rights in 1225, and until 1974, it was a district seat. The University of Kassel maintains a satellite campus in Witzenhausen at which i ...

, and died in

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. Shortly before her death she won the Fritz Bauer Prize from the Humanist Union. The explanatory memorandum stated; "The fact that a civil rights organization honors a supreme judge, may seem unusual, but it is for your work towards the specific benefits of dealing with fundamental rights."

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